Review: Bekay - Hunger Pains

Taking New York Hip-Hop back to more tried and true territory, a fresh and very game MC from the City’s largest borough aims to show you just how famished he is to bring back a sound that is dying off all too quickly…

Bekay doesn’t rap to impress people. The young Brooklyn bred, snarling wildcat of an artist rhymes to express himself in the rawest fashion possible. His bars can range from intense to profound and they mold his highly anticipated debut Hunger Pains effectively. There is a thick sense of history that you catch almost as soon as you hear him start spitting. He’s got that cocky and self assured north eastern flavor that was so commonplace in NYC about a decade and half ago. Maybe it was overkill back in the day when every dude in the tri-state that dropped a record tried behaving like he was Biggie, but in this day and age when the region as a whole has lost a good bit of identity, it’s a welcomed outlook that he’s a true son of Brooklyn, respectively.

By the time you get to the former 106th And Park contestant’s third track you should begin to understand what he’s doing. His taste for glowing, head nodding samples, dope DJ cutting, the creme De la creme of modern boom bap producers and lyrical aide from some of the 90’s most celebrated wordsmiths clearly makes a statement. He’s here to restore some of that past glory, no doubt about it.



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