Mixtape Review;
TeeKlef – NoBeatIsSafe (NOBIS)
For an upcoming artist, versatility would not only be a
massive boost to his career, but night even be the springboard that sets
him/her off to the stars. TeeKlef whose real name is Ebuka Unogu and signed to
his own record label definitely doesn’t have this in short supply. In 2011, he
burst into the airwaves when he came second finalist in the famed enigma
competition organized for upcoming rappers by the then Mo hits boss, Don Jazzy
where he brandished his singing and rapping ability.
His latest effort ‘NOBIS’ is a body of work that featured
few posse-cuts, massive sound reproduction and concentrated versatility. He
made the beats his own, capitalizing on these to satiate the numerous yearnings
of listeners craving for Rnb and rap.
Perhaps the creative intentions on this work led to
indecisiveness in some cases whereby he seemed somewhat torn between singing
and rapping leading to the unnecessary prolongation of songs such as: “En route
| For Me”.
“… they never see it/
they never see me see it/ but when it all come together/ that is when they
start to see it.”
The “NoBis” has a quite self-explanatory concept, but Klef
limited himself to it without any digression and continued the trend on a
two-in-one “Wassup” where he sampled Lil’ Wayne’s mirror on the second, taking
his lines majestically on the first with a high powered vocal performance on
the second;
“for real niggas y’all
messing with a real nigga, the real nigga recognize he’s a real nigga, am
talking triple OG kinda trill nigga, so when we murder collabos they say we
kill niggas”?
Just like every other rap mix tape and CDs, “NOBIS” didn’t
seem to lose its brag code with numerous catchy personal appraisal lines on;
“1000 grammys”, “The One”, “wassup | mirror’’
and the vastly relationship-inclined songs like; all over your body,
don’t runaway, my art, and should’ve known better, all acknowledge his
abilities in both singing and rapping which might presumably be hard for him to
ferret out which one he does better.
The piece de resistance of this 17 tracked tape is the wit,
versatility and dedication with which it was executed especially being an
upcoming act. Irrespective of these, the fact that he stayed far too much on
the safe side of “No Beat Is Safe” affected his adaptability as he failed to
tour other genres taking too much care with a rakish tempo except on; “don’t
run away” where he worked with a more Nigerian sound.
Download 'Enroute' by Teeklef
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