Fast Lane- Cam Meekins ft. Chris Webby

For the song this week I have decided on a track by Cam Meekins featuring Chris Webby called Fast Lane. This song is reasonably old, but pretty unheard of. It’s an upbeat, mellow, but inspirational song. I really like Cam and Chris’s versus in it and they go along well with the hook. The hook itself, however, I am not the biggest fan of, it’s a little bit too “sing-songy” for me, but I think it’s a great fit for the song, and doesn't bring the track down by any means. The best lyrics in the song are pretty hard because there are no great punch lines, or any too clever rhymes, but all of the versus have great flow and meaning. If it came down to it though, I would definitely go with Chris’s couple of opening lines, I just really like the flow of them, and how the rhyme scheme is:  “Living in the fast lane, eyes on the road. Hands on the wheel, empty bottles on the flow. I don’t even know, where I’m about to go, my futures undetermined so I’m taking life slow”. I also really like this song because I think it’s cool how these two rappers came together to collaborate on this song with their different backgrounds and styles. 

I got this picture from a website called Fresh Grinds. 

They do have a couple things in common though… like being young white rappers from the east coast, and being relatively new in the rap industry. Both of these rappers have huge potential and I am a huge fan of their music... Christian Webster is a twenty six year old from Norwalk, Connecticut. He is pretty new (and arguably still working his way up) to the big time rapping industry. However, he has had some outstanding opportunities to work with some of the best artists around. Artists like: Freeway, Mac Miller, Joell Ortiz, Big K.R.I.T., Method Man, Prodigy, Bun B, and Kid Ink. All these are all pretty good and are definitely worth checking out if you get a chance. He also has three albums out, called Homegrown, The Underclassmen and Chemically Unbalanced, along with an EP called There Goes the Neighborhood, and many mix tapes and singles. Chris’s music definitely has a unique style about it that is somewhat mystical, but very captivating… It gives off almost a “trippy” vibe. In a lot of his songs, he talks about partying and drugs, but many others are about his life, and are pretty inspirational (like Fast Lane). He has also done some pretty sweet freestyles, which you can check out on Youtube, and I would highly recommend. Cam Meekins, on the other hand, is one of my favorite rappers, his mellow music is perfect to listen to anytime. You can read more about Cam Meekins in my first blog post: Cut Me Off. 

I took this image off of a page called DjBooth.