RUSSELL! - Boy Lonely (Album)

RUSSELL! keeps that rockstar mentality that comes along with most of the newer generation artists BUT with the bravado towards his lyrical prowess, the boy can rap his ass off but still keep his listener engaged with the undeniably catchy bounce as he uses his verbiage & vocal inflections as another instrument to the instrumentation.

“Boy Lonely” cause maybe he’s an introvert but this guy raps like he’s the life of the fucking party one second & the one starting the mosh pit the next, dilly dallying between that with ease, especially on records like “RESPEC & PROTEC”.

There’s the whimsicalities of “HEADTOP”, there’s him killing MC’s over familiar sounding production at their own game in “FISH & CHIPS”, the Bay Area club hyphy of “LOVERBOY’S RETURN”, E-40 will want to hop on the remix, the sing along sing songy “‘86 buick”, beautiful whip by the way, you gonna wanna “roll another one!” everytime you repeat this masterclass on blending styles so don’t be a “sucker” & pop this in the deck, though he knows thus leaves the simple minded with this final message “u won’t hear this anyway”.