Just Begun - Waju

A little something to kick off your Waju Wednesday.

           This is one hell of a song. If you haven't heard of Waju, or you haven't got Carpe Diem, you just gotta! He is a real soulful guy, and just brings a smooth jam. Bringing some good punchlines, and some new perspectives on issues. With lines that I most often times find quite quotable. With a quick introduction, let me say this isn't a track to look for repairing your life. Him and Yung-V are here to slay a track and drop a little knowledge as well.
           Another thing I look forward to on any Waju track I haven't heard yet is the beat! Waju has great taste in beats and he always creates a hit when the beat is relaxed, as he isn't on that violent gritty shit. That is the beautiful reality to underground hip-hop, no one fakes their shit so they know where they excel and build from their! Of course not everyone finds their niche, explaining whack artists, but I don't dwell on that. So the beat yes! It is very jazzy, which is what some of my favorite instrumentals are structured with. You get that hit of jazz, then it dwells into that loop. The keys are really just background till they change up the tune. At one point a pause it put on the brass, then you focus on keys and xylophones which just brings a nice funk to it. It is perfect to nod your head to vibing, of course what we came for? 2 young MCs here to show their skills, and man they do my ears well!
           I don't want to go into anything to in depth, no elaborate philosophies, just arguments they make that are in good musical taste. That typical stuff, you know, fuck the fakes, money, and who needs a record deal. Same to some of my Illmatic posts, I'll just put up some of my favorite bars, or set of bars in some cases.

Verse 1: Yung-V

No time to sit and chill I keep it moving like Jamaican feet

Coming from that town where its looking like those Haitian trees

No I'm just kidding but these niggas hardly rappin

And I'm on the track and then you seein how I'm actin'

Composin new lyrics and they feel it in they spiritual

Niggas think they hard I hardly ever hearing you

Verse 1: Waju

I'm chillin at the top spot sittin comfortably

Chasity belt flow you couldn't fuck with me

I'm spittin flames man I torch mikes

These dudes' flow is too weak like a fort night

Use your forsights still couldn't see me though

Call themselves dope but they skills is (remedio?)

Youda thought I was sleeping the way I lay it down

Verse 2: Yung-V

My journey just began

But been seasoned like veterans

So no neglecting it better start respecting it

And recognize that I'm a force not to be reckoned with

Loyalty thats the motta that we livin with

Niggas say they real until they put in that predicament

Never feel you safe if you be comin with that simple shit

Verse2:Waju

And gettin rid me pardon me as I intervene

'Bout to make history spittin clean with no listerine

How many times I gotta say it man the flow is ill

And I'm just trying to make the green like chlorophyll

I'm goin in just like a dent and

If you think you are gifted then I'm something like the grinch

Couldn't hang if they were lynched

Me lose man you must have me confused

Because my flow is the bomb and it cannot be defused.

Damn fun song if you ask me. As for the album, cop that shit as his bandcamp! More dopeness like this to come to EML. Should be more fun jams comin for the hot weather, littered through the weeks as I enter my next full album review!
http://waju.bandcamp.com/album/carpe-diem