Music Review: LUNV D & Lord Bile’s ep “Leap Year”

This generation’s hip hop is swimming in a cesspool of sub genres that reject the previous generation’s definition of the music culture. Styles, sounds, even the fashion that dwells in the hip hop culture shifted to a far more edgy, diverse look. The youth of the current state of hip hop affairs have successfully changed its direction, disregarding the constant criticism. The ep “Leap Year”, presented by Lord Bile and LUNV D, rides the wave of alternative hip hop, if you even consider it as apart of the genre. That’s left up to you to decide.

Leap Year contains 10 tracks and is roughly 30 mins. In the first half of the project, Lord Bile distorted, ghoulish vocals sets the tone, along with gloomy, ominous trap beats, taken from a page in Ghostmane’s book. LUNV D vocals are placed in smack dab in the middle of it all as he spits his rhymes that are accentuated whenever a beat drops. The song “Rotten” features a true hip hop vibe: simple beat pattern and introspective lyrics. A couple of songs afterwards gives off a melancholic, emo rap vibe: the song “The Same” ft J3’s Journal. “Decay” ends the project in 2000’s nu metal/ industrial metal/ early Marilyn Manson tip that rips through the car stereo and into your eardrums.

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