San Francisco rap artists Easop and Don
Clay have released their capital new LP, titled, “Reloaded.” The
long-awaited album is a collaborative rap effort featuring other
artists from Easop's LOD music label (Life or Death Music). Produced
by Don Clay, the album also features LOD artists Nick Beam and Rome
Lowe. It is, like the rest of Easop's remarkable rap set in a
definitive and genuine urban atmosphere, entirely a work of gospel
music preached proudly and loudly.
Easop and Don Clay have openly said
that they “represent the street, with a dose of reality and faith,”
but it is perhaps equally true that they also represent their faith
with a degree of rationality and artistic intensity that non-secular
music often lacks. “Reloaded” is not all church, however – it
is also an anthem of the streets, which they have themselves dubbed
“street gospel,” an entirely fitting term. The album's single,
“Let Me Hear You Now” is a crowd catalyst, a high-octane track
with everything fans of urban music have come to expect from the
genre and much, much more. Another track on the record, “Life,”
is much more introspective and autobiographical. Easop and Don Clay
make it obvious that they have much to say, and much to teach.
The lines and rhymes of “Reloaded”
represent some of the best writing in music, which is typical of
Easop's work (although particularly so here, joined by Clay). That he
earnestly, obviously believes in his message infuses his entire work
with an honesty that would be touching if it were not so extremely
powerful in its articulation. The album is not a soft-and-cuddly
Sunday school record for rap fans. “I'm not a bubble gum rapper,”
Easop says in a track from his EP. “These realities are truth. My
game face is on when I step into the booth.” Easop and Don Clay
represent gritty, urban life with a genuine moral integrity, and if
these attributes seem unlikely or mutually exclusive, consider
another Easop line, which speaks for him and Don Clay very well for
all its brevity:
“I serve God with a swagger so the
streets show me love.”
The collaborative record “Reloaded” is also on the heels of Easop's solo
EP, “Street Gospel,” heralding the coming LP, "This Is Personal." The
EP features two singles from that upcoming release, “You've Been
Waiting” and “How I Do It.” “Street Gospel” is due out in 2013.
Easop and Don Clay's “Reloaded” is
available online worldwide.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Reloaded” is
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and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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