Ciecmate and Brad Strut - "I Need Change"
Newsense knows how to run a record label. He puts out slick media kits, calls out slack media outlets (even mouths off at them when necessary) and probably shakes down retailers who don't pay their invoices on-time. He's basically the Australian Suge Knight, only with more manners and less jail time.
Well Mr Sense shook us out of our self-imposed hip hop exile this week to let us know that Ciecmate is about to drop a production LP entitled 'Chess Sounds'. Everybody's favourite social-media Luddite has obviously pitched a fucking tent in his new studio considering this is his second full length drop this year.
I want to say that the MC's look like a 'Dream Team', but that inevitably poses the question 'Well, which one is Christian Laettner?' and more importantly sounds really gay. And since I aint heard the whole thing yet, it is probably best just to leave the basketball metaphors on the bench.
What we do have here is the track "I Need Change" with the always on point Brad Strut ripping his patented lyrical jabs straight at your dome. Ciecmate comes correct with some booming drums that Buckwild would be pissed he never found and some frantic quitar riff that makes me think that Macgyver only has 10 seconds to diffuse a bomb with a stapler and chewing gum. It's tight shit. Can't say I'm completely sold on that chorus though... I reckon Ciecmate should have got Briggs to warble it.
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