Anyone who is into underground hip-hop probably heard of the latest drama with him, but this is about music. Charles has so many different styles of music that range from sampling soul music to sampling rock bands like Incubus to freestyling over the latest beats from other artists to producing beats using his own guitar and piano skills. His rhymes are genius and his longs are literally over flowing with them. Theres honestly too many good songs to name since he put out like 15-20 mixtapes in like 2 years where as most rappers do 1-2 at the most. I'd honestly say Charles is a rapper for more than just rap fans, he's got much deeper subject matter that involves his times being addicted to drugs, homeless, attempted suicides, and then other things like the industry, women(He's not the type of rapper to degrade women), sonic, and life in general. So since he's got so much music I'll give you my top 5 picks of what mixtapes to download(Yes, they're all free. He released them himself on his personal blog, and his record label pretty much told him to keep doing what he's doing) My List: No Specific Order 1. At Most I'm Just...(The Entire Project Samples Incubus) Song: The Incubator 2. The Pink Lavalamp(If you listen to one piece of work by him, let it be this free album thing) Song: Loser 3. My Brain Is Alive(This one is really laid back, nice feel to it) Song: An Angel's Annuerism(Yes that is spelled wrong and I know) 4. Well Isn't This Awkward(Basically a mixtape written and arranged like a romantic movie with alternate endings) Song: In Case I Actually Get Her 5. The Dead Zone Song: But Me Made This Song
Its not exactly a secret that this isn't really to my normal tastes, but I have never really listened to this guy before. I am pleasantly surprised, I actually quite like this song The Incubator, to the extent I favd it on youtube o: This second song, I swear I have heard this before, but I am not sure. Either way, not liking this one very much, its ok as background moosik but not to really listen to. The third song, I listened to it all the way through, same as the others, but :/ it irritated me, I don't know why, it sounded alright but it made my head feel twitchy. In Case I Actually Get Her was pretty kyoot, I liked it better than the previous two songs. Wasn't amazing but was pretty nice. But Me Made This Song hmmm I actually liked this one, the second one added to my favs :B Conclusion, of the ones you posted I really liked the first and last, the fourth was pretty alright and the second and third I wasn't too happy over. Also, now I know where you get the words from your sigs from.
Why the hell didn't you show me Loser before? Or Pink Lava Lamp? D: Jeez, I'm listening to it now and it's awesome.
Yeah thats one of the things about his music, he does the mixing and crap on his own and sometimes he will make his vocals irritating or the mixing of the beat and his voice will just be done weird because he wants too and it can be annoying, etc. But I still love his music. I'm very happy that you liked some of the songs though :'D I swear I showed you and Cin the intro for Pink Lavalamp since the first time I heard it, I was talking to you guys xD
It is pretty nice he does it all himself, I don't know if that is common or not, I know absolutely NOTHING about this genre D: Anyways, I am glad you made this thread, it was a nice surprise, and as I said, I don't normally go for this kind of music <3 so thankies much love.
Thats actually not common, most rappers don't play any instruments and don't know how to mix their own songs, they send them to engineers and get their beats from producers where as Charles does everything on his own. And I'm glad you liked some of his music and you're very welcome <3
