As a member of the Bay Area’s Quannum collective, Lyrics Born issued memorable, if ruminative singles about depression (“Balcony Beach”) and the art of breath control (“Latyrx”). But on his second solo album, he sounds transformed—festive and celebratory, his smarts undiminished. A confessional tone does creep into “Cakewalk,” where he painfully remembers a high school teacher who laughed, “A Japanese rapper? / That’ll be the day.” But even when jabbing at critics too focused on his heritage on “Rules Are Made To Be Broken,” he pokes with glee: “I know y’all know the average things/He’s from Berkeley, he’s half-Japanese/But really, that’s just dabbling in who I am—it ain’t half of me.”
April 14, 2008 @ 8:00 am
Lyrics Born, "Everywhere at Once"
Transformed - festive and celebratory, his smarts undiminished.
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