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YL & Starker
From: Brooklyn, New York
YL & Starker are the boom bap lovers blessing products of the gods of NY Rap: Rakim, Nas, ect.
Kavale
From: Toronto, Canada
Kavale’s got a really classic Toronto sound. He’s just put out his second project and he’s still got a ways to go. I’m sure that he’s taking the necessary steps to make his music A1 though.
A.CHAL
From: Los Angeles, California
Like I said in the thread, A.CHAL has been in deep rotation since I’ve found him. One of the his three songs are gonna be on my top songs of this year list easy, I don’t know which one though.
JGivens
From: Las Vegas, Nevada
I’m not less than impressed with any of the people here. What can make me happier than someone like JGivens? A soulful lyricist from the West. He’s got his shit together and my introduction to him, Fly Exam, is on somewhere in my top list of 2015.
Keita Juma
From: Mississauga, Canada
Keita has strengths that really shine and weaknesses that really cripple him. Fortunately, for me, these flaws aren’t on the foreground of his talent. Meaning his strength overshadow his faults, but that don’t make them unnoticeable.
Miles From Kinshasa
From: Kinshasa, Congo
I’m waiting patiently for another song from Miles. His one and only song out is on my top 5 songs of 2015 ez.
From: Toronto, Canada
I know that some people might think that Tory is a little too well known for this segment, but putting people on rappers that aren’t that big isn’t the only point of this series. Sometimes I want to clarify some things about some artist that might come off a certain way.
Since some people (myself included) might look at Tory’s earlier or more accessible works and conclude that he’s just another “generic rapper”, I feel it’s appropriate to illuminate his talent so people can give him credit where it’s due.
From: Elliot City, Maryland
If you’ve been looking at this index and wondering where are the guys that have the rap skills, then 1. Here you have him. & 2. Are you sure you passed everyone? K.A.A.N offers you, straight bars, no hooks, boom bap, no breaths.
Jon Hope
From: Providence, Rhode Island
Tate Kobang
From: Baltimore, Maryland
Dewy Sinatra
From: London, England
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Heaven and Hell has often been interpreted as 2 sides of the same coin (Earth). While there are parts of the planet that are thought of as “hell” and some thought of as “heaven” or paradise, we see that one can not exist without the other because there always has to be something to compare it to.
i think that this line actually talk about how if you put your faith into either heaven or hell it doesn’t make a difference. its the same in a way (this is a stretch).
My personal interpretation of this line was that when you love someone, and you are actually happy in the relationship it can be as if heaven is you’re beloved. But like he says in the first line of this verse he talks about heartbreak, as in Daniel could be in “heaven” while in the relationship, but when everything goes south, it can be hell because of the turmoil, chaos, depression, and even the madness of an ending relationship.
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Going with the theme of fading faith, for Daniel, I think that this lyric means believing in Heaven is hell for him.
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I really like this interpretation of the lyric. But I think he meant something different here. Like much of his music, this song is about his struggle with the religion he grew up with and how he is losing it.
In this case he is saying that Heaven and Hell are essentially the same because he now believes they are both fictional and not real.