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Posted by: Markus Seaberry, an actor in the movie “Cigarette Girl”
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Monday, 05 October 2009 00:00
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T.R.U.B.B.L.E.
(To Reunite Blacks By Law Establishment) is an up-and-coming hip-hop artist
from
His latest EP, “Da Truth N Print”,
serves as an introduction to this artist before he releases his full-length
debut.
Listeners
to this EP will be treated to a mixture of street tales, introspection, and a
few light-hearted tracks.
Track
1, “Say
Hi to the Bad Guy”, uses a vocal sample from Jay-Z. T.R.U.B.B.L.E. keeps stories of his youthful
indiscretions entertaining with such lines as “So much armor you can call me Mega Man” & “No more waiting on bread crumbs from master, I’m trying to get a piece of this pie
faster”. The crime themes continue on Track 2,
“Bad
Publicity”, where he talks about federal agents monitoring him and how he’s
trying to avoid the fates of so many “hustlers” before him. On Track 3, “Street
Credability”, we get more stories of surveillance and committing
unsavory acts in the interest of survival. The mood lightens up on Track 4, “In
My Throwback”, a light-hearted tale of wearing jerseys and hats of
now-defunct sports teams or vintage logos of current teams with a very
catchy beat that begs for radio play.
T.R.U.B.B.L.E.
finds a happy medium with Track 5, “Straight Hustlin”. On this track,
he talks about hustling on the corner over another catchy, radio-friendly
beat. Track 6, “Understand My Pain”, is a moment
of clarity in which T.R.U.B.B.L.E. questions the life that he’s lived and the
decisions he’s made. The imagery T.R.U.B.B.L.E. uses is graphic & bleak,
but the hook offers hope with the lyrics “We
gotta wait until the sunlight shines around us”.
The
last two tracks, “2 Fresh (Remix) & “Frosty the Hustle Man” are
infectious, fast-paced tunes that round out the album nicely. Both songs seem
to be tailor-made for jookin. “Frosty the Hustle Man” begins with the
beat of a popular children’s song,
but morphs into a hard-hitting beat that has the potential to become a street
anthem. T.R.U.B.B.L.E. has delivered a very balanced EP that
combines interesting subject matter, crisp delivery, and top-notch
production. If this EP is any indication, T.R.U.B.B.L.E. has the potential to
be an interesting new voice in the
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