Bang Bang- Marty Grimes & G-eazy

Bang Bang

This is going to be my last blog post of quarter to and I decided that it should go out with a bang, literally. That’s why this week I have picked a super sick song by Marty Grimes featuring G-eazy called Bang Bang. This is one of my favorite songs at the moment, and it is pretty fresh, dropping earlier in the 2014 year. However, the first time I heard it was about a month ago and I fell in love with it instantly, especially G-eazy’s part. This song just has all the perfect components: a great beat, sick hook, and some tight versus from some of the rappers around. On my last post I talked about how important I think it is that rappers have clever or flowy lyrics when the beat drops that sound good when the beat drops. That’s another reason why I like this song so much, it does a great job doing that and the beat just gets me pumped up. Also, in past posts, I’ve talked about when a song gives you chills, there is something really special about it, and G-eazy’s part in this songs gives me chills almost every time. It is also a unique song for him because I haven’t heard many songs that he is featured in, he raps much faster than usual, and he doesn’t even mention something about girls or drugs at all. Though it’s much different than the usual, I really like it. As for Marty Grimes, his parts are pretty sick and go along with the beat well, though it’s kinda hard to distinguish what he is saying at times. As for the best lyrics I definitely have to go with when G-eazy says, “Every time I rap now I make it stack, and every time you rap now y’all take a nap.” Or when he says “Now this sh*t BANG, this sh*t BANG.” Though the latter isn’t very clever the ‘bang’ comes from the hook of the song and it sounds really cool when incorporated  with G-eazy rapping. Though there are plenty of Marty Grimes’ parts and almost every part from G-eazy’s verse that I could have included, I though those were the best.The explitness in this song is more on the moderate side rather than mild, but still not too bad. Including lots of swear words, but nothing too bad on the drug or sexual reference side. However, since there is no official music video for this song, I provided a video of them on tour, which does involve some pretty heavy explicitness involving drug and sexual exposure. 

I got this picture of G-eazy and Marty on stage from a website called The Crowd Album

Some more about Marty Grimes and Young Gerald

Since I have a couple of posts about G-eazy I am going to focus on Marty for this portion. However, if you are looking for some more info on G-eazy, check out my Lady Killers II post. And since Marty is a very new rapper in the industry and I have just recently started listening to him, I don’t know much about him and neither does the internet (something new). But I do know that he has been on tour with G-eazy recently an he is bound to blow up soon, so stay tuned. Also, drop comments for suggestions, feedback, or anything really. And with the quarter almost at its end, it’s likely that I won’t be blogging for a while so to contact me, email me in the gadget above. 

-Eli Levine

I got this image of Marty Grimes from a website called The Arena 

Young Jedi- Logic Featuring Dizzy Wright

Young Jedi

About a week ago I downloaded about sixty new Logic songs onto my phone, and while I was in California this weekend for a lacrosse tournament I put them on shuffle, and one really stood out. It’s called Young Jedi, it’s a tight pump up song by Logic, featuring Dizzy Wright. This song not only is a sick pump up song, but a good mellow song as well, especially during Dizzy Wright’s part. Though this song isn’t very traditional, by that I mean that it doesn’t have a hook or chorus, it still has some sick flow and clever lines. It also has a sick beat and it always drops at a perfect time in relation with the lyrics, which I think is very important. I also think that that is an important trait in an artist. If you aren’t able deliver clever and flowy lyrics during a part with no background music or when the beat drops, then it takes away from the overall ill rating of the song. It’s almost like a turnoff… This is one of the reasons why I like Logic so much. Anyway, for the best lyrics of this song I choose the opening part of the song. It’s just so sick, starting off with some background rapping and then Logic coming in saying “Back again like I never left, Young Sinatra that’s till the death. We turnt up till we go deaf, rep Rattpack till my last breath.” perfectly timed to when the beat drops. The beginning gives me chills and gets me pumped up every time. The explicitness in this song is pretty mellow, it has a couple swear words, some small, indirect drug and sexual reference, but nothing too bad at all. Sadly, there’s no music video for this song, but the audio video has a cool background image, as do many other of his songs without a music video have. 

I got this sick image of Logic and Dizzy Wright performing together from a wesbsite called str8outdaden

Some More About The Artists

Since I have done plenty of songs by Logic, my favorite rapper, already, I am going to focus more on Dizzy Wright. However, if you want to learn more about Logic and the Rattpack, check out my second blog post World Wide, or go to this link, where you can learn all about his new album and its creation. La’Reonte Wright, better known as Dizzy Wright, is a twenty four year old rapper from Flint, Michigan. Wright has spent most of his life rapping, considering that he started when he was eight. Throughout high school we would open concerts and finally signed with a rapper named Hopsin on Hopsin's independent record label Funk Volume. He later went on to release his debut album SmokeOut Conversations, followed by The First Agreement. After that, The Golden Age a mix tape, and State of Mind, an EP that reached number fifty-four on the Billboard 200. Dizzy Wright has never been one of my favorite rappers, due to his dark influences from Hopsin, though recently I have been listening to more of his music and it is definitely growing on me. For my blog, as always, thanks for reading and let me know about any suggestions or anything like that. Also, let me know what you think of the new colors and layout I have been playing around with. 

-Eli Levine

I got this image by taking a screenshot from the music video of The Flavor by Dizzy Wright.