Leif!
Written by lupethefiasco on Sunday, 27 of July , 2008 at 9:42 pm
One of my favorite up and coming rappers is a 19 year old rapper named Leif. I’ve inserted a paragraph of a bio of his, from Eye Weekly:
“I really relate to a lot of American booty rap and ghetto tech because I was raised in New York, so my friends were people who wore Timbs, and I used to wear Fubu all the time,” Leif explains. “So music like Debonair Samir and Tittsworth, all that Baltimore hard club with the gunshot samples and the heavy bass, I love that sound. I think it all has a place if you don’t take it so seriously. That’s why I’m really enjoying people like Amanda Blank, Kid Sister and Mapei — these girl rappers who are taking something that is a very male genre really, and they’ve made it so ironic and perfect and theirs.”
I’ve really been getting into the Spank Rock, Amanda Blank genre of music and Leif is another great example. He proves that hip hop can be fun, entertaining, but also beat oriented, which most rappers in this genre fail at. Leif is currently attending Wesleyan, and if he follows in the footsteps of other Wesleyan musicians he’ll be just fine. Look at Santogold and MGMT. He along with Harrison Schaaf are making an EP scheduled to be released in August on Palms Out. If you like his music you can check out his Myspace HERE.
Leif- Black Magic (Carli Remix)
Category: Hip-Hop
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