Nico Stays Fly when the Gunz Come Out (Feed the Beast Week 7):
How many Beat Garden members can you spot? (Nico's wearing the I AM HIP HOP t-shirt)
Alright, you should all know the drill for Feed the Beast by now: to promote his debut album, No Beast So Fierce, Nico the Beast has been dropping freestyles over a wide variety of beats, as submitted by the fans. On more than one occasion Nico's verses have outdone the original version, so it's always interesting to see what song he decides to beatjack next. Fresh off of a performance with Duck Down's Sean Price, Nico merks another pair of instrumentals for the seventh week of the promotion. There are only three weeks left, so take the time to appreciate the lyrical display while you still can.
For this week's first song, Nico jumps on 2005's beat of the year, Stay Fly. As much as I criticize the ringtone rap instrumentals that have been coming out of the South over the past few years, I must admit that DJ Paul put in some serious work on this one. And for those of you who, like me, wondered what a (north)East Coast emcee would sound like over the beat, the answer is 'Dope':
His lyrics are on point as always, but you might want to pay attention, in particular, to the end of this next track. While name dropping a few of his favorite blogs over the Dr. Dre produced Gunz Come Out, Nico spits a line that made me El Oh El (IRL): "I wanna fuck / so go Wake Your Daughter Up." Peep:
In related news, the South Philly Review put out an article on the Beat Garden triumvirate of Nico, Zilla Rocca and Big O last Friday. It's a good read, and as a bonus you can find out virtually all you ever wanted to know about their personal lives - from their government names and dates of birth to where they reside and the names of their current employers. The woman who wrote the article was quite thorough, to say the least!
Want to hear more from Nico the Beast? Hit up his MySpace page. And hopefully most of you already have his album by now, so go pick up another copy for one of your friends and introduce them to some real hip hop, over at amazon or cdbaby.
6/29/2007 08:10:01 PM posted by Fresh
Comments:
I only caught the last couple weeks of this feed the beast thing but props to nico. Kid is doing his thing. any cat who can switch up his flow to match the tempo on a milli and then switch it up again for stay fly...thats a real emcee right there.
That WYDU line was kinda funny, I'll probably now always associate their site name with it. Great beat selection for this week, I think this was the best one yet.
6/30/2008 6:59:09 AM posted by Will I Am
@al: You can find links to all of the past weeks over here. The links are on the right side of the screen.
6/30/2008 11:25:32 AM posted by fresh
I forgot how dope that stay fly beat is. Mos def looking forward to the final three.
6/30/2008 1:42:26 PM posted by tony
I don't know where the best place to ask this is...I'm assuming Nico will read these comments eventually so here's as good a place as any i guess...did you guys get any video and/or audio of the Sean P show? Can you hook up a link if so?
And the two songs up here were dope as usual. I'm hoping you pick either an old Schooly D or even a Jazzy Jeff beat before this is all over. Philly beats have been underrepresented on this!
6/30/2008 8:42:58 PM posted by SP!
Oh word? I thought it was too late to submit. aight I might hit you up if I can think of the right beat
6/30/2008 10:48:21 PM posted by SP!
Freakin classic brah. 'Gunz Come Out' is one of my faves...Nico ya killing em son. Good lookin out Fresh. Still waiting for the freestyle over the Barney Miller theme...
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