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ARTISTE: Ill Bliss
PROJECT: Position of Power (EP) Vol.2
RUNNING TIME: 15mins 30secs
LABEL: Goretti Company/ Capital Hill
FEATURES: Tesh Carter, Mike Aremu
PRODUCERS: XYZ
ILLBLISS no doubt is one of the Hip-hop heads that has stood
the test of time, retained their originality, grew by the day and doing
very fine in the music business. Undeniably, he is some young artiste’s
dreams living.
Juxtaposing Hip-hop game with music business is one very
rare attribute in this part of the world although ILLBLISS could be criticized by majority for his skills, talent
and music, only one or two (if any) would disagree with the fact that
he would make the top 10 list of artiste in the music business.
Before we dive into
Position of Power (#POP) volume 2, we should remember the 6-tracker volume 1 that
marked the inception on the found love between ILLBLISS and XYZ and I wouldn’t want to sway XYZ’s direction here.
Only
God knows how that guy thinks and work his “monster” fingers around
the same software everybody uses to create beats I refer to as landmark.
This got me wondering anytime I hear his beat how magnanimous his brain
might be.
ILLBLISS never spit hard bars, lethal lyrics or vocabulary
jabs. He has this voice of the grassroot yelling from his music.
His
music speaks for this set of “untushed” Nigerian who has grown through
the ranks to be relevant leaving out the “razzness” and tyrant traits
that artiste like Olamide spices up theirs with.
This (that I would want to refer
to as) moral hustle has been the piece of flavour OGABOSS has optioned
us. Judging ILLBLISS
exclusively by the standards of the “hooliganism” currently invoke
or by the traditional lyrical titans or wordplay engine houses could
be molding things up a little.
#POP volume 1 was less applauded by majority (like most of
other ILLBLISS’s
work) but sincerity would have it that the project was a well processed
compilation of Hip-hop numbers.
Let’s find out if Volume 2 took off
from here or not, if we could applaud ILLBLISS for consistency in this series already or not as we
break this track by track.
- INTRO
I don’t know if there is a manual for making skit but if there is
going to be, I would recommend this track better be. No irrelevances,
no add on effect, straight to the point, interpreting the authors idea
of Position of Power (#POP) with illustrations and examples alone finish. Now that
we know what he wants us to understand by #POP, he took us to the next track, as simple (or as business)
as that.
- OSADEBE
This verse was mined to establish OGABOSS’s bossiness. Osadebe is
the kinda traditional ILLBLISS track. Exactly how he used to express himself with
words and bars that are not deep enough to be classified as punchlines
but deeper than ordinary lyrical jabs, something that would somehow
soothe your desire and make for satisfaction but it could be a better
track in this procession though.
- IDI ICHE feat. Mike Aremu
For a compilation that is titled #POP with the kinda understanding from the intro track, it
would be right to say Idi iche was too soft. I guess it was made to
trigger the commercial part of the project as ILLBLISS was trying to re-instate his love for his girl on
this verse that he forgot the idea behind the project – establishing
his position of power. One could also argue that being in charge of
a woman’s life is also position of power but Idi iche is way too soft
in executing this with some irrelevant lyrics and putting Mike Aremu
on this song also kinda flattened the Hip part of the Pop a little.
- TOBECHUKWU
This track first surfaced as track 12 on the 2009 sophomore album – Dat
Ibo Boy. It was one of those tracks that were less applauded
on that album so resurrecting it here and rebranding it to suite here
is thumbs up. Tobechukwu follows in the steps of Osadebe trying to rank ILLBLISS
in his self acclaimed bossy position and fits perfectly into project #POP
but it could be stronger.
- LOOKING BACK feat. Tesh Carter
Story of his life is what the title connotes and of cause it is. He
tells us of his upbringing, trying to make us see the hustle all the
way which is very okay but if it were to fit perfectly, he should have
carefully selected landmark (or position of power) situations from his
history and incorporated such alone into this verse instead of widening
the scope of his lyrics to all and sundry situations that doesn’t
concern the concept of this project. Failing to applaud Tesh on the
hook wouldn’t be fair. After Jesse Jagz showed us how to maximize
her potentials, I would be looking forward to her becoming the Hip-hop
hook killer in this country.
CONCLUSION: I fear that #POP volume 2 would not smudge on Position of Power volume
1 that many of us still love and if a volume 3 would do more dent to
the #POP series, I would strongly wish to move that the series be left
to end on volume 1 because admitting that a volume 2 exist is suicidal
for volume 1 already.
Reviewed
by: Dada Sholadoye (for: @UndCoverBrother)
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