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Album Rating System 4 out of 5 records
Imagine a cramped Brooklyn apartment walk-up – say in Bushwick, filled with Egyptian musk incense competing with clouds of kush. A cipher of gods and goddesses building, amongst decorated Turkish pillows and Ottoman poufs, and at the center sits the lotus flower. Nitty Scott, MC.
Scott’s debut studio album, TAOC is suspended in irony. On the surface the album title embodies the vanguard of everything that is cool, while the subject matter is everything but. Scott’s journey of self-discovery and her confrontation of her past with sexual abuse is periling, but her youthful charm makes her plight all the more admirable.
In the intro, Wanderlust, which features sitarist, Rajib Karmakar, is a gently plucked embrace of Scott’s retreat to Eastern philosophy. From the start you can envision the direction she’s headed, and it only gets better.
Nitty Scott, MC
Behind the exterior is a ferocious MC and someone who has reverence for the craft. In each song she carefully paragraphs her verses in expressive measure. I’m talking about bars! Meaningful content. No filler. No wasted space.
In Apex, featuring TDE artist, Ab-Soul, she spits in multi-syllabic fashion, “More dread from warheads/They want the poor dead, but I fed the universe on my forehead/And did this happen beforehand?/Now face it, they just basically erasing them glitches up in the matrix/Always thought the term Black Magic was kinda racist/And I have yet to find intelligent basis for the hatred/Attracting and deflecting a core of my star portals/Ain’t it gorgeous to be mortal?/I couldn’t be more cordial.” Click here to read the full review.
