The Sub Bass Diet

It’s nice to hear an all original track with a Brooklyn rapper spitting over a subs-filled beat. Elucid collaborated with British producer Metabeats, AKA Chesus, to create this intergalactic joint called “Whirlwind Through Cities”. Elucid’s previously shown his affinity for bass music by spitting over the beats of Joker, Kode 9, 77Klash, and others on his mixtapes. Why reuse an acapella everybody’s heard countless times? Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but there’s such a large well of fresh vocal talent within our shores and we’d like to see more exposure for up and coming artists. (No disrespect to all the toasters out here - you know y’all keep killin’ it.) Emcess on the hip hop circuit seem to be more open to this type of collabo in other parts of the country. Like the West Coast, probably due to the whole Wonky thing. And presumably Atlanta, since the beats down there are more electronic oriented to begin with. Photo by Ian Fox.