Indefinite Hiatus

I am saddened to say that I will have to put my blog on an indefinite hiatus due to the fact that I currently have more than I can handle on my plate. I want to thank everyone that has ever visited this blog. I hope I have pleasured your eardrums.

You may continue to follow me on Twitter, where I will still post song recommendations and links to any other cool music related news/songs/etc. I will also continue to be a guest-blogger on Pretty Much Amazing! The Music Blog.
Showing posts with label Emo Rap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emo Rap. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Atmosphere - Me

You dont need to know what's wrong with me
Unless you think you're going to come home with me

Atmosphere is a hip hop group comprised of Slug (MC) and Ant (producer). Atmosphere is also the first, at the time, underground rapper I got into. By the time senior year of high school hit (that would be 2003 for me), he was beginning to gain more fame--particularly in the non-hip hop crowd. Atmosphere was dubbed "emo rap," probably due to the fact that a lot of his songs were centered around his parents divorce and a girl named "Lucy." In other words, he wasn't rappin about bitches & hoes, cars and weed.

Since 2005, Atmosphere has been releasing several EPs online including their "party mix," Strictly Leakage. This year, they released their 5th full-length album--When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold. The album includes back-up vocals by Tom Waits and Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio. The song I chose, titled "
Me," is a reflective song about the insecurities Slug has developed after an early divorce followed by "one co-dependent from the next."