Cool Calm Pete - Lost (Mini Review)
Cool Calm Pete - Lost
It took me forever to get up the guts to listen to Cool Calm Pete's Lost. My friend Ant had been telling me forever I should listen to dude, but with him being and Asian American rapper and me being half Asian I was afraid he'd suck which would in accordance kind of embarrass me. Ant gave me the link to Pete's album, Lost, ages ago and it was ages ago that I decided not to listen to it. I probably wouldn't have ever gotten around to listening to it if my laptop hadn't broken and I hadn't been forced to use my brother's school issued and highly restricted laptop. Due to the top notch security on my brother's laptop I couldn't download anything and was forced to only stream music through sites like Last.fm which (surprise!) Anthony had constantly recommended me Cool Calm Pete through. Because he'd recommended Pete's material to me so many times it was virtually the gist of what my recommended radio station played... and I'm not complaining. As soon as I got my laptop back Pete's album was the first I downloaded (legally as too!).
Cool Calm Pete's Lost heavily
samples old school Korean music (Pete is Korean), but it's so well
sampled that unless your parents are huge fans you wouldn't really
realize you were bobbing your head to likes of Isooni or Uhm Jung-Hwa.
Pete's flow is often described as slow or syrupy and I can buy the
syrupy part but I'd call it mid-tempo rather than "slow" which greatly
compliments his unexpectedly deep voice.
Lost finds Pete (A Korean American Brooklyn MC who can always be found wearing a New York fitted)
flirting with subjects from world travels to terrorism, to shooting at
tvs, to bitchy ex girlfriends along with their smelly vaginas.
Throughout all Pete still manages to show off his skills with wordplay
while remaining a humourous, average Joe type character.
The production on the album is always on point (very
feel-goodsy and easy listening), and Pete's rhymes are always listen
worthy so I really couldn't find a bad track on the album although
several high points on the album include: Lost, 2am, Brush P.S.A., Wishes & Luck, and my personal favorite Tune In.
Now the album cover is awful I may admit....what a chap
lipped, blotchy skinned, wack ass wanna-be rapper right? Wrong. The
album cover, for starters, looks very little like the Babbletron member
looks in person and besides if it did would you really want to miss out
on a dope album because you're a superficial wack ass yourself? Didn't
think so, check it out (preferably with dank and Cheetohs).
8.5/10
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