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Lush liquid lo-fi raps brings in new year for Jersey City native.
OVERVIEW
Ransom and Harry Fraud team up this year to embark on street-splitting beats and rich production with Lavish Misery – featuring lauded lyrical tokens from Ramson at its most self-assured. It’s bold, brash and urgent to the times. Above all else, it shows the seasoned lyricist has still got the fire in him.
Following on from the seperation via the now defunct A-Team, Ransom has been a respected MC in the scene for upwards of 20 years. A true underdog in the sense of solely issuing clean-cut mixtapes and flying low under the radar amongst those who crashed through the glass ceiling, Ransom is the pivotal driving force behind the underground rap scene of NYC. With the likes of fellow contributors Marciano, Griselda and TRUST, there is an identity, an aura if you like, about the music that’s been rifled out at ungodly speed.
The 8-track project profiles a set of dazzling instrumentals as Ransom darts off double downs, Holy Grail references, broken idolisations and delivering humble pies.
Immaculate Conception and Live from the Roxy are obvious stand-outs, as Ransom notes, “Just play my shit to start each morning (Yes)Here go a brief warnin’ (What?)Why don’t you turn your back when the streets callin’? (Damn)The fiends movin’ like they’re sleepwalkin’I don’t sleep often, (Nah) the cousin of death is rest in a cheap coffin,” and fires off towards naming fakery, mockery and haters – “When haters, they see you walking on water and say you can’t swim?” before having his compadre’s back – “You can bet your life that Harry’s the only fraud in this circle, n*gga.”
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