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The
Before I Sold Out EP
Artist: Luke Geraty
Label: Syntax
Luke Geraty is an independent
hip hop artist out of the Twin Cities. Geraty displays his brand of East
Coast hip hop on The Before I Sold Out EP, which is his debut release.
The Before I Sold Out
EP is hardly an EP, since it has eleven tracks that time in at just
over 45 minutes. More becomes less when Geraty's songs all start to sound
like one continuous rhyme with trite lyrics about him selling out, not
getting played on the radio and a little girl who deals with her difficult
life by coloring.
The bright spots are the
accompanying tracks, beats and sound bites that add some spark, but Geraty
fails to deliver anything worth listening to more than once. The one exception
to that is "Success," which features a guest that shows Geraty how hip
hop is done by laying down a lyrical beat that grooves. The song also hits
its mark with the theme of "the American dream" and clever lines by Geraty
like, "I work the nine to five with the guy who's always high."
Putting it mildly, The
Before I Sold Out EP is a mediocre album. Hopefully, if Geraty has
indeed sold out, he's sold out to make a better record.
Matt Modrich 1/20/2003
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