Paperwork

Indie Rap is generally a very personal genre, with stirring melancholia-infused bittersweet lyrics taking precedence over the larger conscious or political message, which is more often than not passed onto the listener through a more subtle undercurrent. However, on this album, Swordplay goes explicitly (or as explicit as an Abstract Hip Hop subgenre gets anyway) political without sacrificing the lyrical tradition of Indie Rap rooted in poignancy. I'd actually say that his very ... read more