Artist: Tyrant
Album: God’s Gift
Articualation: King Acklin
Louisville’s own Tyrant, dropped a 6-track project titled, God’s Gift, late in third quarter of last year. The project comes in under 20 minutes, so it’s a short one, but we’ll get back to Tyrant in a minute. This marks Dope Tho album review number 20 for me and with that being said, I might be in a good mood as I write this, LOL. All jokes aside, from what I hear, Tyrant has been making waves out here and God’s Gift doesn’t do anything to make me think otherwise.
Tyrant seems to have his ears to the streets and that’s evident on this project. Like many others, you definitely can tell Tyrant is influenced by HOV and this is evident on Villain and T.a.R. One of the more polished, “this is my single” tracks on the project is Set It Off featuring Lola Lanae. The En Vogue (Don’t Let Go) sampled track is set off even more so by the visuals displayed in the video for the song. Properly displaying some of the recent turmoil in our city of Louisville, this video will definitely help push the track. Lola Lanae is also killing the vocals on this one and Tyrant is giving us that street rap action about how society and these corrupt government officials are treating us black people out here. He’s really touching on what’s going on today.
Tyrant’s God’s Gift is a well produced balanced project. The artist showcases his talents in little time so that makes him very efficient. You get that Louisville vibe from Tyrant and that’s a good thing. We'd like to dig deeper with a longer body of work on his next project. That may give us a deeper look into Tyrant as an artist and bump his score up even higher! “We gonna keep this shit all the way cordial or we gonna purge this bitch.” – Tyrant on Thank God.
Bottom line and question of the day; is It Dope Tho? The answer is Yes. The project is a 7 its Heat on the Dope Tho Scale. Listen now and thank me later... #DopeTho #YouWelcome
Dope Tho Rating: 7
Key Dope:
Villain
T.a.R.
Set It Off
Thank God
Dope Tho Rating System:
1-3 Nope Tho
4-6 Solid
7-9 Heat
10 = Rated Dope Tho