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There aren’t any clever metaphors or double entendres waiting for your “Ooooh’s” at the end of each line, just the harsh reality of what Moose has gone through and what he’s facing at the moment.

The influence and gravitational pull of Young Moose’s music have never been dependent on how polished his raps are. If you need a pick-me-up, this could be the one. 'Keep Movin' (Negro Kai)' is a minimal, tribal chant-like record with stellar imagery ('every time I step outside, Nina Simone starts to sing.') and detailing of what it's like to deal with constant oppression and fighting off attempts to silence your passion. He kept the lyrical content in tact but stripped away from the frantic production for the only track he released in 2015. Lawrence BurneyĪbdu Ali has made his name over the years as a voice of the unheard and muted, usually over Baltimore club-influenced instrumentation.

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But for 'King Me', his zone spans for the full three minutes. With Scoota, what he's saying probably won't change much but how he delivers it is what will either separate him from the pack or keep him where he is. 'King Me' is a hook-less, self-congratulating marathon that looks back on where he was a year ago, his hometown hero status and where he's headed. Since his 'Bird Flu' track and dance had the city in a stronghold last year, Scoota hasn't deliver a track even close to being as impactful but he's been low-key improving with every release.

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Quiet for most of 2015, Lor Scoota delivered another chapter of his Still In The Trenches series at the end of the year, building on his catalog of street stories and gunning for national stardom. On the surface, it sounds like a hard luck story but its flipped during the hook where Al assures, 'some days you smile, some days you frown,' through light drums rolls and crashes before the Drew Scott-produced track breaks down to a 'Thriller'-like fadeout.

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On 'oodlesnoodles' Rogers looks back at his childhood where he watched his brothers cook crack and go to the market with an EBT card just to grab a pack of noodles for dinner. dropped his second mixtape, an alternate universe where love trumps all the world's ills, called Luvadocious. has always maintained keeping a personal narrative in his music, bringing the listener closer to what makes him tick. Through his many transformations and vocal progressions, Al Rogers Jr. It truly succeeds because once Davo gets into a pocket, pulling you into the complexities of his brain, the fact that the track was originally a smash hit by Eminem becomes secondary, or completely irrelevant. All the rambling gets a periodical break whenever he says, 'I just be,' in a way, breaking the story down into chapters. 'I Just Be' goes from Davo questioning the friends around him, to people thinking he was soft for singing in his tracks, not being able to help his stressed-out little sister, to the fucked up prison system and his penthouse dreams. The stakes for that remake were arguably low considering the original is already a feel-good, party track but deep into Davo’s Underrated 3.0 tape lies “I Just Be”, an epic tale of everything Davo-related over Eminem's 'Cleanin' Out My Closet.' When the beat dropped on my first listen, there was this 'What the fuck?' moment where I questioned why anyone would try rapping over this in 2015 but Davo took the opportunity to spill out everything brewing inside. President Davo made his name in Baltimore for jacking beats last summer when he dropped his own version of Big Pun’s “I Don’t Wanna Be A Player”, which became a local hit and has racked up over 2 million views on YouTube. 'Bank Rolls' is far from a politically conscious track but its rise to becoming a national hit simultaneously grew with Baltimore's uprising against police injustice and brutality, making its shouting out of different neighborhoods and streets throughout Baltimore City, simple production and accompanying dances more unifying that Tate may have intended it to be.

Following a tradition he's developed over the past two years to drop music in honor of his late mother's birthday, Tate dropped a remake of Tim Trees' Rod Lee-produced 'Bank Rolls', a Baltimore hit in the early 2000's that never grew beyond the city. Coincidentally, Kobang's mom was born on April 19th, the same day Freddie Gray died from complications related to his arrest by the Baltimore City Police Department. He went back to the drawing board and revisited his roots this year, though. He's actively been dropping tapes over the past couple years - some stuck and some didn't. Tate Kobang is not a new rapper in Baltimore.