His lyrics are often little more than a simple, two-line chorus sandwiching improvised-feeling verses. He approaches a fairly standard range of hip-hop/R&B subjects from a well-established underground perspective, decrying the evils of money (“Money”), lamenting the world’s “lack of knowledge” (“Falling”), and regretting how much trouble women have gotten him into (“Washedbrainsyndrome”). Jackson”-style, and he wasn’t offering up particularly inspired wordplay even when, rapping as Declaime, he had a little more flexibility on that front. You won’t find him ranging into new thematic territory, “Ms. Perkins’s mastery of the cliché is similar in its unexpected depth. In Perkins’s unaffected, decidedly human hands, though, in a slightly-silly voice whose like we can imagine ourselves mustering with a few months’ practice, the sentimentality falls away and what’s left feels fun and sincere at the same time.
We get unapologetic bits of sentiment like “Lil’ Black Boy” and “Momma”, whose lines (“You give me joy, little black boy”, and “It was you who gave me life, momma”) might have turned to pure saccharine if a more technical singer had chosen to lay on the tremolo.
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Instead of the detachment born of a peacock-like display of pure ability, here we get the sometimes disorienting full assault of the duo’s whims, imperfections, and passions, all sounding like they were committed to tape with little planning or plotting. Unlike almost all current R&B, including supposedly “underground” singers like Vinia Mojica, A Lil’ Light lacks Faberge shine and elegance. The tracks are similarly rough-edged, almost all stripped-down to a simple loop, and plenty dusty. In contrast to most commercial crooners, Perkins’s range is sharply limited: his falsetto is shaky, he croaks on the bass end, and he’d be the first to tell you that he smokes too much to hold any note from more than a moment. The album doesn’t fall comfortably into any current stream of R&B creativity. The track caught the attention of a few people, got released as a 7″ single, and now, three years later, we get a whole album of tracks that are nearly its equal in their simple, off-the-cuff brilliance. But the finished song, with its stream-of-consciousness lyrics and a vocal veering from utterly heartfelt to self-effacingly off-key, ultimately revealed much more than a rapper trying to sing - it revealed an entirely new personality buried under Declaime’s West Coast rap steez. “Flowers” was, at first, little more than an experiment, its lilting four-chord piano progression and chill boom-bap a chance for Declaime to stretch out the singing chops that his melodic flow implied. It was around the time of the Quasimoto sessions that Madlib and Dudley/Declaime first stumbled across what would become the indisputably unique R&B sound of A Lil’ Light. The two albums’ basis in quirky, melodic jazz-funk made them interesting at a time when the underground was fairly flooded with stripped-down, break-based records (as it continues to be today), and the combination of that sound with Declaime’s own buzzing, laconic delivery could not have been more perfect. The other half of that album’s equation was Madlib, on whom the label “genius” was first slapped following 2000’s Quasimoto album, The Unseen. Though he here operates under his birth name, he’s probably better known as Declaime, the mad space-mystic rapper whose smoked-out, semi-sung drawl helped make 2001’s Andsoitisaid a minor West Coast classic. Has some sick Madlib beats Falling Sollitude.Appreciate all y'all.Like Bruce Banner and Clark Kent, Dudley Perkins is more than he claims to be. This is an easiest way to send files to someone who cannot accept them live.
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