Good Music Artists: Little Brother

Tribe, De La, P.E....were like our big brothers in the game so now we are the little brothers of that movement...carrying on the tradition of good music."- Phonte




Following the foot steps of the big brothers that came before them Hip-Hop super-group, Little Brother hopes to continue the tradition of good music, that features lyrical skill and chopped sampled beats.Little Brother's debut album "The Listening" follows the concept of an live radio show, JLR (Justus League Radio), featuring Chaundon on the heavily sampled "Morning", where the rapper introduce the group members: Phonte, Big Pooh, and 9th Wonder. The Album's first single "Speed", Provides a simple, yet relaxing beat from 9th Wonder, where rappers Phonte and Big Pooh talk about the struggles of a daily life citizens in america, as Phonte spits,"Another day to face, i'm share cropping in the paper chase/take a deep breath and clear my database/It's afternoon and im talking shit to my alarm clock/cause I gotta face this world of capitalistic onslaught." On the album's next single, "Whatever You Say" features another chilled /relaxed sampled tune with strong hi-hats and powerful snares. As Fellow members talk about their relationships with women,as Big Pooh Spits," What up brown skin, you're body smellin like cinnamon/Hair in a bun, your toes done so feminine/Heard you suck your teeth like oh no here we go again/Let me get your name so I can be more genuine."The Album Also features funny radio commercial interludes such as "Make Me Hot" which where Phonte sings about other artists asking him how to sing, and write a 16 bar verse. And "Roy Lee Producer Extraordinaire", it where phonte act like a 1980's producer.The album truly shines with Phonte and Big Pooh's dedication to there love ones on 9th Wonder's nostalgic beat "Away from Me". And the last song on the album titled "The Listening", where Phonte and Big Pooh talk about how people don't pay attention to deep lyrics, but they pay attention to the mindless trash that's on the radio, as the chorus goes, "This is a message for our people chasing benjamins/With real rhymes and skills they believing in/Keeping them bad tapes rolling like michellin/it don't matter, cause people ain't listening/They ain't listening, they thinkin bout they timbalands/They say the shit we talk about ain't interestin/We got a better chance of blowing up in switzerlandHolla if you hear it cause people ain't listening."Overall this album, touched on many topics such as love, deception, daily life , lyrics, etc., while being presented in an very creative format. With More albums and Mixtapes, Little Brother can become as big as the brothers that came before them.

Score: 9.9/10
Speed"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx5YJK4BocY"
Away From Me"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_rSwXhtmH8
"The Listening"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYLKWTwMSE8
"Shorty On The Lookout"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJaUd_ujx5Q

Written By: Christopher "Justice" Siders


P.S.: Be on the Lookout for their last album, "Left-Back" drops April 20th

Little Brother- Curtain Call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHBZXZt3jHk

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