Jonwayne-Rap Album Two-CD-FLAC-2017-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Jonwayne
     Title   | Rap Album Two
     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 44:37
     Label   | Authors Recording Company            Store   | 2017
     Catalog | ARC002                               Rip     | 2022
     Bitrate | 791 kbps                             Size    | 265.42 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. TED Talk                                                    3:47
     02. Live From The Fuck You                                      2:54
     03. Human Condition                                             3:21
     04. Out Of Sight                                                4:27
     05. The Single                                                  1:39
     06. Paper (Feat. Shango)                                        3:22
     07. City Lights                                                 3:53
     08. Rainbow (Feat. Danny Watts)                                 3:08
     09. Afraid Of Us (Feat. Zeroh)                                  7:24
     10. Blue Green (Feat. Low Leaf)                                 3:43
     11. Hills (Feat. Zeroh)                                         1:48
     12. These Words Are Everything                                  5:11
 Notes  
     Finally full of purpose, rapper Jonwayne navigates his own downward spiral,
     seeking the answer to his most important question: What do you do when rap
     is both your living and a fuel for your vices?
     In 2014, Los Angeles rapper/producer Jonwayne had a crisis of faith. His
     suddenly-realized rap dreams were the impetus for his own implosion. A
     battle with alcoholism waged in part because of a crippling fear of flying,
     and the harshness of his lifestyle threatened to ruin him. He canceled his
     shows, parted ways with his label Stones Throw, and retreated from the rap
     scene. The next year, he released an EP called Jonwayne is Retired. When
     Im grieving I stay up writing these masterpieces, he rapped. His second
     full-length rap album seems to prove that assertion. Its an introspective
     journal that uses self-critique as a lens through which to examine the
     fragility of rap celebrity on any scale. It considers what it means to be a
     rapper and it considers the cost. Rap Album Two deconstructs Jonwayne to
     build him back up.
     Jonwayne has always been a master craftsman and talented technician, but in
     the past, his raps didnt really have any function. It was rapping for the
     sake of it. He had plenty of knotty, syllable-twisting wordplay pivoting on
     slant rhymes and internal schemes, but much of the content was filler. His
     full-length debut as a lyricist, Rap Album One, was bogged down by his
     inability to get out of his own head, rattling off series after series of
     pointless puzzlers and long-winded (albeit fun) workarounds for rap cliches
     aiming to show how clever he was. Instilled with purpose, Rap Album Two
     weighs every sentence carefully. He isnt interested in constructing
     complex lyrical miracle word exhibitions. He's too busy wondering if rap is
     even worth it.
     Much of Rap Album Two is about rap as both an instrument of destruction and
     a vehicle for redemption. It finds Jonwayne navigating his own downward
     spiral, seeking the answer to his most important question: What do you do
     when rap is both your living and a fuel for your vices? His writing, which
     was once so heady, is now sobering. Hes rapping more deliberately, and the
     bars all mean more, carrying bigger burdens but bringing bigger rewards.
     Theres literally a song called These Words Are Everything. Songs like
     the existentialist daydream Human Condition and the punching City
     Lights explore the consequences of addiction, especially when pursuing a
     rap career (There's a price to it youngin/You most likely dont invite
     the kind of vices we brung in/Be it poison of the body or the kind you
     cant see cause it's creeping up behind). The album uses a beatpack with
     snappy, slow-rolling drums, minor piano chords, soul hymnals, and sunless
     tones to depict an ongoing recalibration, as Jonwayne finds his way back to
     rap.
     On LIVE from the Fuck You, one of the albums keenest moments, a stranger
     approaches the rapper in public asking for an impromptu concert for a girl
     hes with (She says she knows who you are, I think she's a big fan)
     before tagging on a dismissal: She says you rap and Im not really seeing
     it, dog. Jonwayne finally indulges his request for on-the-spot raps with a
     verse dismantling the fan and his actions: So heres a little story bout
     the way I make it hurt/The way I make you learn how not to approach a man
     whos suffering for his work like a monkey in the circus. The observations
     arent exactly revelatory but they are cleverly articulated, and the
     sharpness with which theyre delivered makes them potent. The most telling
     moment on Rap Album Two is The Single, a chest-beating song he botches
     several times before scrapping. The title of the song and his inability to
     complete it best exemplify the albums primary lesson: the pursuit of
     stardom can be punishing, both on mind and body.
     Rap Album Two is easily the most fulfilling project Jonwayne has ever made
     loaded with the most thoughtful writing of his career. It isnt just the
     gravity of subjects, its the carefulness with which hes willing to
     examine them. Every candid, incredibly personal line contains some form of
     catharsis. Alcoholism drove him into isolation and loneliness only led to
     further self-sabotage. But this record is a triumph over that. These raps
     dont just exist for posterity; they, too, are a part of the healing
     process. As Jonwayne rethinks his order of operations, he becomes closer
     to whole.
     Produced by  Jonwayne (tracks: 2, 4 to 11), Eets (tracks: 1), Oliver The
     2nd (tracks: 3), DJ Babu (tracks: 7), Dibia$e (tracks: 12)

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