DaVinci: A Fillmore Story from WEREHAUS on Vimeo.
Watch the video. It articulates everything about DaVinci that I’ve been thinking for the six weeks since I first heard Feast or Famine. The Fillmore raised rapper is a man of absolutes. No bullshit. No dance tracks. No crossover attempts. He has knowledge of self and understands his lane. He is aware of the obstacles surrounding him. His first hook hangs like a noose: dope rules everything around me. The rest of the album concerns similarly monosyllabic realities: life, death, friends, fam, past. Every day is no frills.
As he says in the video, he’s not self-obsessed like many of his peers. Consider him a more lyrical West Coast Jeezy or the Fillmore kin to Freddie Gibbs. Feast or Famine is about pitfalls of friend vs. foe, the balance of staying true, the beer, bitches, and bullshit. Sink or swim rap. He wants to be a voice for the people, without the megalomaniac baggage that usually accompanies that. Nor does he need irony or obtuse metaphors, DaVinci stays as low to the ground and blunt(ed) as Jerome Bettis in his prime. The EP is below and highly recommended if you like smart rap music that always comes hard core but never hard-headed.
Another video and the album below the jump.
Download:
ZIP: DaVinci – Feast or Famine EP (Left-Click)
