SAPIENT - “THE SCREEN” - Video
Sapient of the PDX stronghold known as Sandpeople with one of my favorite songs off the soooo slept-upon solo LP Letterhead. I said this about it last year:
Sape released an LP called Letterhead a couple of months ago that was supersneaky brilliant; before I even noticed, I was banging it on the regular, rhyming along at parts and humming to the beats. With an articulate, skinny-cap intricate flow and a voice kinda reminiscent of another bugged white boy named Cage, Sapient has a real gift for imagery that most MCs (let alone, MCs who also make beats as freaking banging as his) don’t even realize they’re missing out on. Peep this, from “The Screen”: I wish Phuket was filled with celebrities in 2004/The tsunami crowdin’ resort towns with their corpses/Those aren’t jellyfish, they’re breast implants found on the shore. Insightfully exploring everything from the TV junkie’s numbed-out shame cycle ("The Screen"), internet addiction (the genius “Stay Connected"), and creativity- (and perhaps drug-) induced insomnia (my favorite cut, the languid “Rest of My Life"), along with some well-deserved bravado, Letterhead is one of the best Northwest hiphop releases that you never heard this year. My suggestion to you is that you come to this show and remedy that situation, because as Sapester himself modestly posits on “Killinit"—he’s killing it.
Sape is geniuinely the shit and i shouldn’t have to feel smug about you not knowing it.
2 Comments
Rossta 3 years, 1 month ago
Yo, your right, this was a very slept on cd....i even remember when i bought this shit when i was down in Portland an my boy who is from Ptown didn’t even know who he was!!! i can tell u now he knows ALL about homie, we bumped this cd all that weekend an he even found out where to buy some of his older work, Sapient is a beast!! good looks on the video
mack 3 years, 1 month ago
sape is really good.
cool of you
to post this
lar
i’m telling sape (my evil twin)
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