Thursday 24 February 2011

Song Review: Fire


Well be back Mith! Obviously the light shines bright on KlearKut’s Navio, however we are moving it swiftly to TheMith after hearing this track. There is a certain Jozi, South African feel to Mith’s delivery and it sounds good.

It’s never easy to break from a group and do solo projects without being faced with harsh criticism. With this song, Mith proves a good rapper, and even better story teller.
The reggae chorus makes the song movable, current and fun.
We think it’s gonna be fire.
Matooke Rating 9/10

Wednesday 23 February 2011

Mixtape Review - By Ernest Bazanye

CD Review 
September Reign Volume 1 
By Ernest Bazanye 


September Reign is being called a Mixtape, though the difference 
between this and a real album is moot. 16 tracks long, it begins with 
a light homage to the MC’s heroes, Jay-Z and Biggie. (“I like this guy 
because when he came out, he came out with the phrase, ‘I’m so UG.”) 
An intro which establishes that you are about to listen to a fine 
lyricist at the top of his game. 

As the CD progresses you will find plenty of reason agree that that 
sentiment was justified. Not only are his cunning punchlines plentiful 
and on point, but he has increasingly become more daring when he 
experiments with new rhyme schemes and new tools of wordplay, 
incorporating sharp alliterations, canny allusions to hip hop classics 
and sudden but vivid imagery of the Kampalan lifestyle. The writing is 
incredibly proficient, and this, I found myself thinking, as I reached 
the halfway point of September Reign, may be both its strongest point, 
and its greatest weakness. 

Because that last paragraph read like a school essay from Lit class. 
Technically The Mith is soaring, but while that may excite hardcore 
hip hop fans, will it appeal to the general crossover audience? The 
club? Those who just want to dance, who want to hear their music from 
speakers, not headphones? 

As the second part of the CD opens up, Mith seems to answer that 
question. An R&B love song with Benon, a joint with GNL (Where he does 
spit a Luganda verse) and the anthemic Watugamba by UNIQue should 
satisfy the club while not alienating the hardcore fans. 

Klear Kut joints have come and gone, but it’s only now that we are 
hearing the Mith of old. Brash and cocky and comedic, but also, 
beneath the jokes, aggressively determined to show you that he really 
is as good as he says he is. In hip hop parlance, we would say here, 
in September Reign, Vol. 1, we finally get to see the Mith really Go 
hard.