Check out the new leak off Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr Rager, Maniac ft. Cage. Listen on illRoots
Fantastic beat, a sample of St. Vincent's The Strangers. As much as Cudi is an unconventional rapper, this still seems like an odd choice of a sample. The execution is fantastic though, as Cudi seems content to let the track do most of the work, laying down verses seemingly to fit and compliment the beat more than to flex any kind of rapping muscle. The end result is one of the better uses of an indie sample and it adds to the mounting excitement of this fall's coming rap releases.
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I'm going to have to respectfully disagree on this one, Wolf.
ReplyDeleteI like the choice of sample obviously, and I thought it had potential. But it just seems lazy as hell to me. Is he even a rapper anymore? This song and his other new track, "Erase Me", have pretty much no rap involved. Just some raspy singing and rhyming every once in a while.
And why is he so hesitant to just rip off a bunch of consecutive lines? He just lets the beat to all of the work and then eventually throws in a couple "I am a maniac"s and then the songs...over.