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WEDNESDAY WORD: Chocolate Snow "Inflation"
I’ve been going thru changes, y’all. The followers of The Drizzletron are now privy to my debuggin’ process, which has led me to much less facetime with the screen upon my computer. It appears that, on the road to cyber-savviness mixed with hip-hop’s curriculum of a hustler, we at iLL-Lit have worked strenuously to create music to relax to. A paradox, yesno?
For this Wednesday Word, I would like for you to take a listen to Chocolate Snow, a rather unknown specimen (I wonder why, with such a marketable name?). Especially in today’s press to impress and financial stress, listen to how this track takes spoken word – a form that since slam has found tragedy with music due to its aggressive nature – adds onto the fluid jazz. Much in the tradition of Gil Scott Heron and Jimmy Castor, “Inflation” takes more worrisome issues and siphons the beauty from it. Makes a depression sound uplifting.
