TONY
MOON
After
crash landing, Tony Moon was horrified to find a world populated by
humanoid billboards, devoid of all original thought, capable only of
regurgitating the advertisements transmitted on all detectable and
subconscious frequencies by the fascist media moguls hidden in the
shadows.
As the populous drained their own true wealth building
increasingly sophisticated weapons and fighting sadistic wars for the
privilege of marketing the devil diamond, Mr. Moon, holed up in a
bunker, began using his knowledge of the lost language to transmit a
pirate frequency. His dense lyrics, previously undecipherable, were
designed with one purpose; to overwhelm and short circuit the
microchipped population.
The appearance of small pockets of
awakened individuals alerted The Beast to Mr. Moon's whereabouts. His
laboratory was set ablaze and the body of his work, immediately
classified as a dangerous hallucinogen, was stolen in to create an antidote.
With little left before The New Era, Mr. Moon, concealed behind a cloud of smoke to evade the all-seeing-eye, to craft and transmit that ancient sound system; the bars to free the minds of the masses.
Tony Moon - "Moonshine: You Know, For Kids!" Mixtape
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CURRENT SOLO PROJECT
& Review
Artist: Tony Moon
Album: Moonshine: You Know, For Kids!
Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
Label: Unsigned
Tony Moon, from
Hampton, VA, is someone I’d like to classify as a rare breed of emcee
that’ll take most listeners by surprise once they listen to him. His
culture, soul, and devious style of rhyming is one that reaches beyond
the ears of hip-hop fans and lands right into their minds where Moon
stays implanted for countless future hours. I’ve heard the album three
times and still have been thinking about the lyrics and truthfulness
that he spits over his beats.
Moonshine
is a mixtape made up of 20 fresh tracks filled with soulful beats and
witty rhymes. Being the latest project from Tony Moon, it lacks very
little and accomplishes so much—words wouldn’t be able to describe the
life changing bars he recites on his record. In order to make a
believer of all of you, I suggest you download the mixtape by clicking here and following along as I break down the mixtape.
Diving right into the
mixtape, Moon introduces himself with the song, “Catch You,” where he
blazes an amazing flow over a truly soulful beat that is filled with
powerful horns and bouncy drums. “What Happened,” the track that
follows, has a “spaceier” style of beat where Moon speaks on today’s
culture versus the past. I loved this track, personally, because there
was so much truth being spoken—you nearly have to listen to the track
over and over again to grasp every detailed word that he spits. “These
Days,” is another song with a soul influenced beat that also comes at
us with an informing hook. The second verse of this song introduces us
to the “Klansman hanging from trees” concept that we see on his album
cover and Myspace picture. The beginning of the mixtape brought us a
couple of promising tracks, which leads us to think the rest of the
mixtape will be of the same quality.
The middle of the
mixtape picks up with the song, “Straight Poetry,” which Moon spits
about, “…getting back in the booth to get back to (his) roots.” Quickly
transitioning to the next jam, Tony Moon gives us the song, “Not Fertha
Masses.” The beat has a solid sample, which Moon easily rides as he
speaks about how his music is not for the masses. Tony shows us, in
this song, that in order to start a movement, you cannot sit on your
butt and do nothing. If you want to motivate yourself, “Not Fertha
Masses,” is a song you should throw on! The next song, “Anthem
Ferthat,” is the perfect median for a mixtape. I loved this song
because it was pretty much a diss to today’s rappers—I can definitely
relate to this joint. “Faith,” the next song, has a very smooth beat
and beautiful bass line that Tony gets to rhyme over. As the song name
shows, obviously this is a track about religion as he states, “…this is
what happens when passion meets a plan,” which sets the vibe for the
whole track. Finishing up the middle of the mixtape is the track,
“Creep Show.” A dark beat with a mischievous melody provides the
parameter of another one of Moon’s ill tracks. I’m yet hear a track
that let me down, lets see how Tony ends the mixtape.
Starting the end of
the mixtape is the song, “Struggle To Suffer,” which is over one of my
favorite recycled samples. On this track, Moon tells us how it is in
his everyday life and what it is like to put up with family struggles
on the block. “Twitchin’,” continues the vibe of the mixtape with a
very mellow sample. Don’t get the beat confused with the content of the
song…because if you listen close you can hear how excited Moon is about
all of the veterans that are losing their skill, which opens a door for
him to be a champ in the game. “Build Up Babylon,” another great track
from Tony Moon, touches on some of the similar topics we already heard
on the mixtape—the downfalls of music, culture, and religion and how
trueness shall prevail. The next song, “On Top,” was my favorite beat
that Tony Moon used. The drums were so fantastic…I loved it!
Finally, we see the
grand finale of the mixtape with the track, “The Day After Tomorrow.”
This song was my favorite song on the whole mixtape, however it uses
another one of those recycled samples. Following that song, “Déjà vu,”
kicks off with an ill beat and catchy hook that reminded me of an Orko
Eloheem track I used to bump. At last we arrive to, “Drunken Bonus
Verse,” which is an extra verse for the song, “What Happened.” In my
opinion, I felt that the bonus verse should have been on the original
track. Great ending, however.
Like I said in the
beginning, Moonshine lacks very little, but I should digress on what
the mixtape actually does miss. The biggest downfall of the entire tape
is that a majority of the songs cut short too soon and lack in
duration. Tony Moon is a man with a lot to say, so it is only fair that
we demand full-length tracks from him. I find that this mixtape is
based more on quantity of tracks, instead of quality of tracks. If Moon
were to make a mixtape with twelve tracks instead of twenty, perhaps
we’d have the quality that we are searching for. Finally, the last beef
I have with this project is the production and beats used. I found a
lot of the beats had recycled samples that we have all heard on
different projects from other artists, but this is hardly something to
knock an unsigned artist for.
To wrap things up, I
would like to say kudos to Tony Moon for releasing a well rounded
project and I would also like to thank him for sharing his stories and
wisdom-filled lyrics with us all. I feel as if hip-hop is missing
lyrically infested artists similar to Moon and if more rappers were to
rise from the shadows like he did, the game could be appreciated more
than the commercial style of rap we are used to hearing today.
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