I suggest that it’s easy enough that the majority of us can attest to modern hip hop flurrying through its handle of potential lyricists who start off sweet with a solid fan-base then, switch it up, but hey!—it happens to the golden ones too. Some hip hop-heads can also think that some artists just slip through those greasy cracks and randomly see fame. The game and culture of this life will continue to throw grenades at us, whether with ability to MC or not so much, that’s life baby, but!—I do know with this video introducing me to what the whole Voyeur explosion is about, I’m sold the first half of the video in, scouts honor.

voyeurEP(demo) by RomeFortuneSmallWorld

For some reason it seems that captivating. It could be the blue-velvet button-up that compliments the cool design or a well-trimmed, low shadow that just oozes out a cool-kind-of-brother. Either way it’s not that hipster scheme that’s been spreading around. Dude says, “fuck off my television, give me ma pension.” I just like it. Rome Fortune is the great man here, kudos to this brother.

The song goes like this: you know how you have a strenuous day at work with loads of new information to grasp onto before your salary goes away, and then you can go home and totally relax to some great-grown bud, a cozy house, and just unwind. With Rome Fortune speaking knowledge of his will on the first half of the song, that pretty much is equivalent to that brand new information we must experience. Be a student. Be a mentor. Seek and receive wisdom first.  Then play like hell in the wind and sun, and have that wild-cut loose freedom we’re proud to have!

The last half brings it home with a cool Atlanta vibe on a subtle block ducked- off somewhere where trouble ought to be made—good trouble that is. A blonde bombshell with a red truck and a box of Krispy Kreme Donuts tossed in the back suggests a “Welcome to the Party Life” sign. There’s fun to be made, period.

In a southern city filled with ambitious young artists scattered about, Childish Major and Rome Fortune are a duo worth collaborating with. I hear the two have worked with Dog Bite from ‘Washed Out’ which speaks volumes in terms of alternative music inclination. You don’t understand the joy I could leap around my desk from experiencing something different coming from Atlanta. The steady cadence of the bass line with its counterpart on the snares and hi-hats are a lethal bomb. The two go hand in hand, like marriage and love. A fluid delivery over a laid-back beat creates enough solidity for me. The keys creep in as the song winds down to accumulate another  sound and vision of the video: like what the Black Album spoke, “All good things must come to an end.”  The ending is a nice serenade to finish the touches of an “A Tall Guy” film. The video makes all the content seem so natural and without much force—life seems to come easy for some people.

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