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<\/p>\nI\u2019m not going to sit here and write that I have been a huge Milkdrop fan since I first heard his work because I haven\u2019t.\u00a0 I\u2019ve actually been really critical, passing up songs such as Money\u2019s Worth without realizing the poetic brilliance of his work (lazily and ignorantly).\u00a0 He\u2019ll be the first to admit that he is different than most hip-hop artists especially in Kansas City.\u00a0 And he perfectly encapsulates the main difference between him and other emcees in his first line,<\/p>\n
\u201cI might not ever be famous what else is new\u201d<\/p>\n
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This new single \u201cAs The Word Turns\u201d helps me to finally understand Milk\u2019s rhymes and differences on a personal level.\u00a0 He spans many themes in a concise but lyrically expansive track.\u00a0 What I think helps him connect is the production, Osiris-1.\u00a0 Osiris-1 creates an abstract beat that highlights the emcee\u2019s lyrics.\u00a0 I love lyrics and sometimes production overshadows the focus of the emcee but Osiris-1 does the opposite highlighting the lyrics instead of drowning them out.\u00a0 And when applied to Milkdrop, one can ask \u201cwhat is Milkdrop better at in comparison to everyone else?\u201d The answer: rhymes.\u00a0 The spaced-out beat provides Milkdrop a playground to really show the listener his tight and focused rhymes and it all translates to a FANTASTIC track on every level.<\/p>\n
It takes a lot for me to continuously go back and hit the back button on my iTunes but \u201cAs The World Turns\u201d has done it.<\/p>\n
I would say that if Milkdrop puts together his D Sides Project with songs of this caliber it would be the best local project of the year, it will be in rotation too!<\/p>\n
You can download this great song along with accapellas and instrumentals to make a badass remix here<\/a>\u00a0and here: FREE MUZIK<\/a><\/p>\n If you want to make a remix there is a contest.\u00a0 Here are the details:<\/p>\n \u201cIncluded in the FREE download of the single will be the accapellas for you to craft your own version. The PRIZES for winning include: a Dat Pack (bag of FREE Datura Merchandise), and the opportunity to have a guaranteed Producer placement on Poet At Heart The LP or a future project to be determined. All participants can send submissions to Sean Hunt or myself at milkdroppress@gmail.com after November 8th.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n by james baker<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Local emcee puts out a solid new free single!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48],"tags":[460,459,407,33,337,408,86,458],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-local-music","tag-datura","tag-datura-records","tag-hip-hop","tag-i-70-independent","tag-james-baker","tag-kansas-city","tag-lawrence","tag-milkdrop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/milkdrop1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}