Lawrence Turner serves BIG with "A Lil' Something"
- Hip Hop
- Aug 21, 2018
- 2 min read
"You know when you're really hungry, and you got food at the house but you out right now, so you just buy like a lil' snack to hold you over until you get the full meal later? That's kind of what this is like." - Lawrence Turner, A Lil' Intro (2018).
Crashing the underground scene with a surprise E.P. before his album release, is clever songwriter and all around entertainer Lawrence Turner. Since his last debut on the Block with his visual for "Oh No", before "Love Hate", Turner has been preheating the oven to 350 before he serves us with the full coursed meal. Instantly gaining our attention with a relate-able draw-in line to describe his unexpected project, Turner enters big with "A Lil' Intro" flowing smoothly over a high density beat and a polyphonic hook. Delivering witty lines accompanied by characteristic vocal engagements, L.T. executes this track with full force and fully-calibrated lush magic.
Kicking in with a familiar melody, homage to Ying Yang Twins feat. Pitbull's "Mentirosa" (containing a sample of "Din Daa Daa" by George Kranz), "Chant" follows L.T. on his rigorous musical journey leaving him exposed to his endless ambition and struggle to make awareness of his past projects, Turner announces his continuation in his craft and determination to preserver and conquer, being sure to step directly on the mouths of haters right into the ear buds of dedicated supporters. Leading "Goldmine" is the familiar stylistic vocals of Ra[K]oon singing: "I'm coming for the front line, middle fingers to the stop signs" he starts off allowing for Turner to murderously enter the pocket and let you know he's been slept on for too long. Giving us a tougher, raw version of himself is Ra[K]oon with a short but satisfying bridge that shines a different reflection of his personality but not his voice.
"Single" powers in with a classic 90s-2000s vibe beat with the story following from crush stage to puppy love to the difficulties everyone faces one way or another. A classic cycle of dating to cuffin' to being right back single as many of us in the generation experience. With a closeout to the E.P. is a head nodding, heavy hitting ending featuring the introspetive Maxx 39 bouncing lyrical fire back to back between these relentless rappers leaving you to mimic the bowdy chant: "Guess who stepped in the room like BOOM". From the theatrical and innovative promotion to the well-rounded 5-track final project, "A Lil' Something" deserves the respect of producing well polished engineering and solid skillful music that leaves the end product more than satisfying to the Hip Hop palette.
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