This album is really good and I’m
really impressed with it. The music is produced by quality
UK producers such as Mr Thing, Harry Love, Braintax and features
great artists such as Lewis Parker. There’s a real
roundness to this album. You don’t get bored listening
to it. There is purpose to the songs, showing good rhyming
skills, clever wordplay and genuine honesty. There is no
pretension in ‘The Essance’. Each track has a
quality hip hop ‘essance’ and it tells the truth
from this honest orator. The tracks are positive, very much
from the traditional school of hip-hop and creative. For
example ‘Chef YG’ is a fun journey into the smooth
Yungun using ‘Food Glorious Food’ melody in the
chorus taken from Oliver Twist, making the track very unique
and very British that works well. I particularly liked ‘City
Breaks’. Yungun talks about the troubles of city life
and how nice it is to get to natural beautiful places. I
could really relate to his words and he shows excellent MCing,
great play on words and a genuine message which can lost
on a lot show boating hip-hop. The music on this album is
really good. There’s tracks that make you think and
make you dance.
The roundness of this album demonstrates
to me that the UK really can challenge the USA with regards
to pushing hip-hop in a positive and meaningful way. There’s
no reason to me why Yungun can’t do well overseas with
this truly excellent effort. If you want to be part of this
UK revolution in hip-hop, look out for releases on Low Life,
Y’N’R and Invizible Circle records for further
quality purchases. The revolution will not be televised.
Tareck Ghoneim |
