Skewby – “No Handlebars”
AUDIO By Beware on November 18, 2009 at 6:46 pm
With all the rap blogs I read everyday pretty much playing favorites, of course I’m going to discover an MC as talented as Skewby at a site I specifically keep an eye on for offbeat, non-rap picks. Thanks to the cool, cover-all blog/promo-machine RCRD LBL, now we can all enjoy this Memphis mold of Cassidy, Lupe & Q-Tip (Q-Lupassidy?) turn up the tempo on The Flobots “Handlebars” beat and prove that he can indeed ‘do it better.’ Not only in terms of this song, but just bending bars period. This kid is good. Carrying the charisma of your favorite rapper, this newly-legal drinker flips on flows like light-switches, enlightening listeners along the way with equally easy and elaborate punch-lines like, “I don’t rock with squares and I never roll with circles/ I make my own dimensions…” Slick.
I managed to obtain linkage to Swewb’s 2008 Proving You Wrong Since 1988 mixtape and – based off this one song alone – I’m already warming up a spot in the CD player.
Don’t worry, I’ll keep you posted.
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Download — Skewby – “No Handlebars”
8 Comments
BEST ALBUM OUT SINCE BLUEPRINT 2!!!!!!!!!!!! I SPEAK THE TRUTH BOYS AND GIRLS DON’T BE NIEVE, THE BEST OF ME COME OUT WHEN I LISTEN TO HIS CD! PROVING YOU WRONG SINCE ’88 IS NOTHING LESS THAN HOT, AND DIFFERENT… IN A GOOD WAY! DONT UNDERESTIMATE THE UNDERDOGG FOR, HE WILL PREVAIL… AND HAIL AS THE RAINING UNDISPUTED KING OF MEMPKIS SINCE ELVIS………. MARK MY WORDS…. AND THEN HIGH LIGHT THEM, ITALISIZE/ BOLD THEM WHEN I SAY…. SKEWBY D IS THE SHIZNIT!
-JUSTJAMES
No handlebars was awesome though. It had more to say than “I’m so great”
I like what they’ve done with the beat here though.
This was better than expected
just James .. – Can you pls Un-Kanye your text.. it will make it harder for me to ignore when you say something.
He’s dope! Mixtape is dope! On repeat in my ipod daily!
This ish is tight !! The mixtape is dope from top to bottom. He really doin his thing. Memphis finally has some real lyrics coming out.
Yo BEWARE-
Great blog my dude. I like this kid. Interested to know your thoughts after listening to the whole mixtape. I haven’t taken it out the CD player.
Thank you! Still one more useful entry, this really is the reason we arrive for your blog page frequently.