Song Review:Apologize by Mag 44 ft Sho Baraka. If there is one label that can put Zambian music on the world map then Lota House is the team. The song features American gospel Rapper Sho Baraka who is a founding member of 116 clique and an artist signed to Lecrae’s Reach Records. Mag 44 adds another notch to his belt as an equally talented gospel emcee and producer. Apologize is the first song this year by the gospel crazy punchline rapper Mag 44. Mag 44 plays around with Humor ,Metaphors and similes. The controversial and underfire rapper has been criticized for attending secular functions where he claims to be a holy messenger than a club goer. Lota House rapper lets them know by apologizing that his sorry that he aint ready to stop preaching the word of God. Mag 44 brings the usual crazy but yet literate metaphorical use on Apologize. There is a big part of metaphors referring to Jesus Christ and two syllable external rhyme formulae, “nika lemba wama kumbi so my God’s fly no tete/ He holds our ups and downs…. Chikwepe/”. The metaphorical language continues throughout Mag 44’s lines somehow making it look as if it’s not a pure religious song directly rapped for Jesus. The way he switches from vernacular to English and vice-vesa does not disturb the rhythms. Sho Baraka who has worked with Lecrae, Trip Lee, Flame and Tedashii, delivers a short killer verse less than 16 bars but sounds more composed and organized especially with wordplay. “Tryna walk on water like I was Peter/ tryna not to hate my God and love Caesar/ tryna bring that change to my hood / and be a mouth piece to even promote what’s good/ ye ,take the gospel everywhere/ death and criticism we aint scared/ we make the disciples then build the church/ but we gotta go preach the gospel first/”, Raps the American. Mag 44’s beats have a good share of African rhythms and sounds and western fusion, this one is not exception. The compression and sound output is highly impressive, you dealing with a sound engineer who has been the driving force behind Lota House’s success. If judgement Day was held today, Lota House songs may have free entry tickets despite their music failing to run country’s mainstream radio stations as the current rap mindset prefer obnoxious punchlines to literate Rap. Mag 44 shows that there is still hope for the Zambian Hip-Hop industry to be recognized on the world map by competing fairly with USA gospel Hip-Hop artist Sho Baraka. Download---> itsretunes/mag44.html -K.O Starring
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:46:45 +0000
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