By Anthony Mclaude, Rock At Night New Jersey
Single Review: “PENdulum” from the EP “He’s Black/He’s White” by Bobby Briz and iNTeLL
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Reminiscing on a time in hip hop at the 40th Annual Grammy Award ceremony where the late mic grabbing pioneer, Old Dirty Bastard bum-rushed the stage to kiss Erykah Badu and declare, “Wu-Tang is for the children,” the Wu-Revolution has now become reincarnated with the lesser of two evils, contemporary philosopher Bobby Briz and 2nd generation of the Wu, iNTeLL. Even as the duo dynamically trade off on bars, they make known like a whirlwind swarming your hood with a thousand superior samurai dragons to their viewers, the killa bees and every other hip-hop artist on watch by spit firing an unforgettable charred hole in the track.
Collab EP He’s Black / He’s White Out Now via Intellectual Entertainment
The symbolic horrorcore visuals of the dark lit, foggy interrogation room with a sole light bulb swinging “back and forth, back and forth” like the namesake lyrics on ‘PENdulum,’ Bobby Briz is an amped up total nutcase in his braggadocio, bugged out, and murderous Slim Shady style flow. Briz is relentless in refusing to hold back words or bite his tongue while displaying extensive vocabulary and multi-syllabalistic satirical rhyme schemes. “Everything that glit is not all gold/but we bitcoin/Yeah we big boy/You’re a shrimp/crawfish/We sharks mixed with offense/We evolved and/you’re just not shit with the nonsense/You should not spit/Usually I encourage people to live out that art/but some of you should probs quit.” iNTeLL, in his collectively cool, calm, then dirty and perverted yang, mischievously adds in a line of pettiness; “And keep all of your girlfriends from sucking our dicks.”
The rising Tao of the Wu then spits, “Flip around/turn the W to a M/From Wu-Tang/making millions more than men/We do things that you cannot call a trend/ Amusing/ Can I call his friends/Always been more brethren than a weapon ex perception/make your head spin as we swing through/Daily Bugle said we kings too.”
A modern day collective of “Bad Meets Evil,” the cutting duality of Bobby Briz and iNTeLL, are indifferent when samurai slashing the jugular off of this record and making it look like child’s play, and in doing so, like the tristate assassin’s backhanded lyrics mention, “We’re superior artists/wit’ samurais/Ya’ll left looking stupid like you just took an apple pie to the face in a lunch room/right in front of your friends and your crush too/Sucks to be you and not us.”
Like the reference, Wu-Tang is forever. A cemented brotherhood in hip hop is for eternity.
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Growing up as a child in a Christian household raised by a single mother and grandmother during the 1990s was such an awe-inspiring adventure. In his Elementary School days, he took a feeling of attraction towards rock ‘n’ roll music as he heard "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones, and "Don’t Let Me Down" by The Beatles playing from his uncle’s 1970 Chevy Malibu garage. Records by Madonna, Alanis Morissette, the Fugees, and Lil Suzy were also being played throughout the house by his mother, dressed in a black leather biker jacket and who would occasionally put the radio on blast.
In 7th grade back in 2002/2003 school year, Mclaude had written the number-one narrative story amongst the class and caught the attention of his then teacher, Mrs. DeFeo as she called him upfront and said “Anthony, your story on ‘The Volcano King’ is incredible. You should be a writer.” Ever since that day, Mclaude in his rebel without a cause era has always kept those words in mind as a way to keep pushing himself past the limits. As fifteen years past, he enrolled himself in Cumberland County College studying journalism and wrote for the university’s Award-Winning Newspaper, The Voice as he grew as a creative and tenacious reporter with a nose for news, and a passion for community journalism. In spite of the blessings outshining the hard times, he received the opportunity to be a staff writer for a local news outlet, The People’s Press of Millville, where he has written five articles, two press releases, page growth, and has received encouraging feedback from the community.
Today he is currently working for the magazines of Eclectic Shades and Rock at Night.
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