HOUSTON LIGHTNING. Chamillionaire's speedy flow packs in the rhymes.
Chamillionaire May be the last rapper to emerge from Houston this year (following Mike Jones, Slim Thug, Paul Wall and Bun B.). But he's the first in talent.
Houston's other emcees tend to pitch their raps pretty low. Imagine: Southern crunk's strip club anthem's moved several miles west. By contrast, Chamillionaire's verses seem virtually Shakespearean.
If nothing else, he offers a lot more words per beat than his competition. But the real draw of Chamillionaire has less to do with his verbal content than his feisty delivery.
He's one of the fastest rappers around, riding the beats in double-timed rhymes. His flow is so agile it can make you dance by itself. There's a bounce to his cadence, with an extra groove dug by his deep Southern drawl.
On the track "The Sound Of Revenge" you hardly need the beat to set your foot tapping. And it's hot beat, indeed, fashioned by producer Big Boi of OutKast. Chamillionaire drew lots of star producers for his first major label CD (which follows scores of Indie mix tapes). His dial twisters include New York's Swizz Beatz, New Orleans's Mannie Fresh and the producer of the hour, Scott Storch. It was Storch who came up with Chamillionaire's striking single, "Turn It Up." Which features the rapper who foreshadowed the latest Houston Wave, Lil Flip.
Here is the pic to the Article as well.
Chamillionaire doesn't just rap on these tracks but sings,too - after a fashion, anyway. His sing-song styles recalls Nate Dogg, who offered an unlikely croon on all those violent Death Row hits of the 90's. The ease with which Chamillionaire moves between warbling and rhyming proves his mastery of rap's important skill: to turn speech into music.
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Chamillionaire May be the last rapper to emerge from Houston this year (following Mike Jones, Slim Thug, Paul Wall and Bun B.). But he's the first in talent.
Houston's other emcees tend to pitch their raps pretty low. Imagine: Southern crunk's strip club anthem's moved several miles west. By contrast, Chamillionaire's verses seem virtually Shakespearean.
If nothing else, he offers a lot more words per beat than his competition. But the real draw of Chamillionaire has less to do with his verbal content than his feisty delivery.
He's one of the fastest rappers around, riding the beats in double-timed rhymes. His flow is so agile it can make you dance by itself. There's a bounce to his cadence, with an extra groove dug by his deep Southern drawl.
On the track "The Sound Of Revenge" you hardly need the beat to set your foot tapping. And it's hot beat, indeed, fashioned by producer Big Boi of OutKast. Chamillionaire drew lots of star producers for his first major label CD (which follows scores of Indie mix tapes). His dial twisters include New York's Swizz Beatz, New Orleans's Mannie Fresh and the producer of the hour, Scott Storch. It was Storch who came up with Chamillionaire's striking single, "Turn It Up." Which features the rapper who foreshadowed the latest Houston Wave, Lil Flip.
Here is the pic to the Article as well.
Chamillionaire doesn't just rap on these tracks but sings,too - after a fashion, anyway. His sing-song styles recalls Nate Dogg, who offered an unlikely croon on all those violent Death Row hits of the 90's. The ease with which Chamillionaire moves between warbling and rhyming proves his mastery of rap's important skill: to turn speech into music.
source: bootleg2k4 from www.chamillionaire.com
