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For about the past year, I've been getting a fairly steady stream of promos from West Philly emcee Sic Osyrus (as in, "Psycho Cyrus"). More often than not the music submitted from his camp has been pretty good, but I initially dismissed him as the type of manufactured street rapper that gets polished up by the record label p.r. agencies just enough to get some play on the radio. Part of that initial impression was a result of his mixtape covers, which featured the same kind of artwork and design (and more than likely put together by the same artist) found on 90% of the mixtapes over at datpiff, and part of it came from the fact that the only sites he seemed to get featured on were Vibe's favorite blogs, the sites that get hand fed most of their material from the major labels.
My impression began to change shortly after I heard Sic on last year's I Still Love Her with Skyzoo, an ode to hip hop that was in a different lane from what I had expected to hear from the man. Last week I received the following song off of Sic's latest mixtape, Siconomics 3, featuring the homie Nico the Beast, which has convinced me that I need to start checking for more of Osyrus' material. Any rapper that has the good sense to get a guest verse from Nico can't be all bad. Peep:
Sic Osyrus featuring Nico the Beast, Emilio Rojas and Push Montana - Monstah
I don't usually pay much attention to what the comment section over at NahRight has to say, but it was heartening to see the following reaction to Nico's verse after the song was posted over there:
"i think the second dude [Nico] is fire wanna hear more music by him if he has it"
Further Listening:
Sic Osyrus on MySpace
Nico the Beast on 33Jones
Push Montana on Myspace
Emilio Rojas on MySpace
06/28/2009 12:30:01 PM posted by Fresh