During the past few years, she's gone missing from the group's flyers, performances and appearances, causing a stubborn minority of Kooley High fans to suggest she's a saboteur for having abandoned emcees Charlie Smarts and Tab-One, producers Sinopsis and Foolery, and DJ Ill Digitz. Skip to main content. Skip to main content. Again, Kooley High dips into the Jamla bucket for producer Eric G, who turns in a funked-down beat of his own. As a persistent emcee who has continued to cultivate his craft despite a lack of fame, his contempt for vanity and validation is both understandable and welcome. Home Music Features Record Review: Home Music Reviews Record review: 
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Smarts picks up the meter: On "Alone," Smarts is concerned with isolating himself from love affairs, while Tab-One wants to isolate himself to nurture his love of penning rap lines. It's what foor takes their rap challenge to new heights.
Since Kooley High leading lady Rapsody began her solo crusade as the ace of 9th Wonder's Jamla Records, her involvement with her original Raleigh crew has been, at best, spotty.
Record review: Kooley High's Heights
David Thompson with Heights, a relaxed nine-song EP far removed from the fray of group politics. On Sincerely, Tabhe suggests a boom-bap version of those pharmaceutical advertisement disclaimers, as though he's telling rappers: Indeed, sanity is what's kept Kooley High from falling apart, even after a key member has moved on to late-night television and marquee guest verses.
But Raleigh emcee Tab-One stands out for the most delightfully novel of rapping reasons: You can hear pieces of that spirit on the blues guitar-licked "Carry On," featuring Greensboro vocalist and Charlie Smarts' mother Sandra Gell doing her best Sharon Jones. As a persistent emcee who has continued to cultivate his craft despite a lack of fame, his contempt for vanity and validation is both understandable and welcome.
As is often the case with Kooley High, the trip can be both conceptually splintered and musically centered. On the thirteen-track Sincerely, Tabthe first Kooley High-associated release since last year's Heights EP, Tab and producer Sinopsis stick to their soulful roots rather than following new fads.
Record Review: Kooley High's Tab-One, Reliably Honest on Sincerely, Tab - INDY Week
Skip to main content. The culture spits out and discards trends as fast as it embraces themremember DJ Khaled's Snapchat? During the past few years, she's gone missing from the group's flyers, performances and appearances, causing a stubborn minority of Kooley High fans to suggest she's a saboteur for having abandoned emcees Charlie Smarts and Tab-One, producers Sinopsis and Foolery, and DJ Ill Digitz.
Back to Search Results. When the two match wits, as they do with double-time rhyming during "Under the Sun," who needs a third lyrical leg, anyway? Charlie Smarts emotes in style, while, without Rapsody, Tab-One must carry the sharp lyrical weight.
He's an artist who didn't "make it in the game," but wasn't crushed by it either. The result is a heartfelt, genuine record that, though occasionally missing the mark, ultimately resonates.
Having spent fro time in hip-hop to have brushed shoulders with legends, seen friends and bandmates become famous, moved reclrd to pursue music, and returned to start a family, Tab is the rare cautionary tale with a happy ending. Use as directed, hip-hop.
Kooley High (Feat. Skyzoo) - "For the Record" - EARMILK
Home Music Reviews Record review: The hip-hop industry is obsessed with hype, with declaring who's got next. Back to Search Results.
Again, Kooley High dips hig the Jamla bucket for producer Eric G, who turns in a funked-down beat of his own. Actually, there still seems to be debate within the group as to whether Rapody remains a member, but outside forces have sometimes suggested the guys cannot survive without her. For Kooley High, that reality may be hard to relate to, but if all activism and awareness are intersectional, then Charlie Smarts' work in the fight for a living wage for fast-food workers gives the group's social awareness actual heft.
Tab-One ends the song and album with a strong declaration of his crew's staying power, getting back to the raps where Kooley High belongs: Skip to main content. In the interim, much has changed in local hip-hop. Home Music Features Record Review: Talk to ror doctor to find out if it's right for you.
Only time and kokley will tell.
More important, he doesn't seem particularly concerned with stardom.
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