41. - GHOSTPOET - PEANUT BUTTER BLUES & MELANCHOLY JAMReminds me of Roots Manuva. The lazy drawl. The gruff and beefy delivery. The contemplation: "I'm just sitting here drinkin', playing pro-evo and thinkin."
This debut LP from Coventry, UK based MC Obaro Ejmiwe is structured so well. It really swells in the middle and ends with "Life's too short to sort out grudges." Ejimiwe raps about the struggle of late 20's life throughout this record and it's a 40 minute colossus. A splendid, self-deprecating journey.
The production is killer. The electronic aceness of "I Just Don't Know" is a sharp dart away from the wholly live feel of the album. Here he says "I can't be a retrospective rapper all the time" - the present tense of "I know what I'm doing / But I've gotta keep on moving / Don't ask me what my plan is / Cos I'm not quite sure how I planned it:" is plain and honest, but also vital and revitalizing.
Most hip-hop albums this year make me want to get my party on, but this is the reflection afterward. Parties are nice, but the quest for self-improvement takes up more hours in the day surely. Well it does when you hit 28 anyway!
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