Music Monday [2/7]

It's Music Monday again!

This week I bring to you Mac Lethal's "Backward" off his album 11:11. Mac Lethal is a mid-west rapper from Kansas City, Missouri. Mac has lyrical talents that I can do no justice to with words. Mac is known for his punchlines and most recently rapping in double, triple, and quadruple time! This means taking regular lyrics and doing them faster. He can rap so fast that you almost cant keep up.

This video was recorded in response to a youtube video of a kid rapping pretty fast. Well Mac likes to be the fastest around so he posted a response video of him rapping faster. The video above is timed on an iphone because of the comments left on the response video. The video features Quadruple time which is the fastest rap recorded.

Speeding up timing makes writing songs even harder. When I am writing lyrics, I find that I often use double time as a means to keep the pace of my songs constant. Pace and tempo are just as important to me as the content of my songs which is why it takes me so long to get lyrics down to the beats I make. Mac's content spectrum is so vast, from battle rapping in Scribble Jam, to songs like Backward, Mac has the versatility to be a true Hip-Hop legend.

Mac Lethal's lyrics are influential and often deep but that does not stop him from bashing Miley Cirus when he made this remix of her famous song "Party in the USA."

Personally I find this to be quite entertaining and much better than the original.

Mac Lethal's albums and mixtapes continue to be among the top played songs in my Itunes and I dont see that changing any time soon. See you next week for another Music Monday!