TIME - LITTERTURE

This is why I like Time:

His album, Litterture, starts off with a confident, autobiographical declaration caled “We Are Music” (produced by awareNess)”. The beat don’t fuck around, and the delivery matches. A few songs later, he performs the musically mellow, but conceptually theatrical, “Universal Battle” (again, by awareNess)-- essentially a conversation between the sun and the moon eased into by sweet, female vocals pleading for cosmic unity. And for the fourteen tracks that this album runs, he keeps that versatile spirit up.

Time rhymes like Diverse or Talib Kweli, in that he has a lot of words to share and an iambic pentameter to be respectful of. His voice is his own, and the production is shared by a handful of equally unique people: Satyr gives the deeply personal “Hungreed” an old school on-the-stoop soul piano sound; Valley Sequence makes “Capitalvision” sound like the dirty south by way of Richard D. James; and Equalibrium sets “Bigotree” aflight on what could very well be Pre-Emptive Strike-era Shadow’s darker, moodier twin.

dirtylaboratory.com is where you gotta go to get a copy of Litterture. And you should. It’ll be a good way to keep track of all the new producers you need to keep an eye on, and an MC you need to spend some time listening to.