One of the great (and overlooked) hip-hop works from the ’90s was the debut from Latyrx – a record so undeniably cool it only needed to go by the name Latyrx (The Album). The duo – Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker – created one of the first albums that really challenged my ideas of what [...]
Lyrics Born and Leteef from the Quannum crew talking 'bout a real queeen. If you don't know, these guys are intimately linked to the Bay Area scene with DJ Shadow and Blackalicious. This is old schooly delicious! I am always a sucker for the sing-song rapping.
Latyrx is one of the artists I randomly stumbled on (a while ago, not just this past second) that has been on and off my radar a countless number of times. At this moment, he's a prominent blip somewhere near the middle.If you've read any of my previous posts, you know that I'm very much a beat afficiando and less focused on the rhymes. However, no assumption should be made that I'm unappreciat...
One of the great (and overlooked) hip-hop works from the ’90s was the debut from Latyrx – a record so undeniably cool it only needed to go by the name Latyrx (The Album). The duo – Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker – created one of the first albums that really challenged my ideas of what [...]