Versis showed up in my friend requests a number of months ago. Since then I have kept up with his music and have yet to be let down. He’s been releasing a steady number of singles that have kept me in anticpation for a whole project. I’m glad to say I can anticipate no longer.

The Synergy EP is a 21-minute joyride that stays true to it’s name. It is an excellent display of what two talented artists, whose talent and ability is strong enough to carry themselves individually, can achieve when they combine forces to make something even greater than their indiviudal efforts; Synergy.

Looking back now, synergy has been the winning formula for any memorable hip hop duo: Eric B. & Rakim, EPMD, Gangstarr, Blu & Exile, Reflection Eternal, etc. A formula that often makes albums into classics.

Versis’ smokey, Buckshot-esque voice and old school delivery serves a good contrast to Lucid’s fresh and full-sounding production that would have any Little Brother fan searching for the instrumentals. Neither member outshines the other at any one point during the EP. Versis is definitely the focal point but he doesn’t let his producer go unnoticed. With Lucid’s instrumental teasers and the track featuring Lucid himself, it feels like a cooperative effort as opposed to the “Here’s the CD of beats, hit me up when you record the songs” type of feel.

All in all, The Synergy EP is an excellent listen for anyone who is in search of the new Golden Era (or shall we say, Platinum Era) of hip hop.  The more I hear from Versis, the more I can’t wait to see him do bigger things. I only support good music, you should do the same.

Click the link above the pic for the download or just click here if you’re lazy.

Versis can be found here.

Lucid can be found here.

Class dismissed!

-A.v.

Wow, this post took some work. Not in the sense that it was hard to write or anything, but everytime I began writing it something came up that required me to close my computer or leave. Then to top it all off, last night when I was just about done writing it for the 5th time, my powere goes out! Wowzers. Nonetheless, here it is.

Wizdumb is just the type of producer I love to listen to. The kind that has me air-drumming along while freestyling at the same time. The kind of producer that I can listen to on repeat for hours. There are only a few producers I can really do that with, namely: Madlib, Black Spade, Q-Tip, 9Th Wonder. It’s no surprise that I hear some of the same elements of those producers in Wizdumb

This beat tape listens like Madlib beat tape the way that it kinda takes you on an entrancing journey through his crates of dusty breaks and eclectic samples. Though there are quite of few samples and breaks used on this tape that any DJ/producer/digger worth their weight in dust would notice right off the bat, this isn’t to be seen as a bad thing, in fact I believe that is somewhat the point. It, to me, shows his knowledge in his field of craft as a DJ/producer/someone who is really down with this hip hop shit.

A few of my favorites include: Damn Girl!, Play, Like Wow Man, and my personal favorite Know you, which can be heard in the following post.

You can click the link above or right here for the download.

Check out Wizdumb here.

And check out the rest of his fam, Funkie Pie, here

P.s. - Sorry this took me so long!