Khingz

Rap is perhaps the easiest genres of music to create music in. All it requires is a microphone and a computer program capable of mixing vocal tracks and beat squences. Even though it's easy to make the music, it's not easy to make it good. Writing rythmic poetry, and designing full-bodied melodic rythms to go with them is a master craft, with a difficulty equal to that of playing any instrument in any band. It's because rapping deceitfully appears easy that so many crappy rappers are out there. It's also the reason that rappers who used to make good music turn out crap before their career's end. Khingz makes rap, and he makes it well.
"No Apology 07" is a slow rap with backed with an amazingly engineered hip-hop hacked melody. The lyrics have so much poetic potency that they could be read on their own. Khingz uses an ingredient that is the both the most important and the most neglected in rap: intelligent articulation. He expresses his views and his culture, without abandoning language, and without distorting his message. In his own words Khingz is "More hood than gold fronts on a 2 year old. Yet with the intelligence of W.E.B Dubois."
Khingz grew up in Washington. Not Washington D.C. but the state. Even though he hasn't blown up yet, he's played shows in a wide variety of locations. He's also put out a couple CD's. When he puts out his next album it will be interesting to see how well it does. His fan base will undoubtedly grow with time, as long as his music continues on the path it's on now.

Khingz get's a 6 out of 10

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