As U Were
The veteran Bay Area MC adds a little pop sparkle to a diverse collection of new songs.
This just in: Rapper discovers synthesizers, makes album! On his latest, As U Were, Bay Area backpack-rap pioneer Lyrics Born imagines himself as he never was: the rapping, scatting, singing, high-energy frontman of a synth-pop/nü-funk band just waiting for its close-up. For nearly two decades, he’s had a golden…
Lyrics Born has been around long enough, 20 years in fact, to have changed his style many times over, either gradually over the course of his many albums (solo or with Lateef as Latyrx) or with an about-face.
Few artists in the indie-rap stratosphere have ever been as lauded as Lyrics Born was in the early ’00s.