{"id":1580,"date":"2016-03-23T08:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2016-03-23T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T08:20:42","slug":"nick-grant-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/nick-grant-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Grant 88"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Authors: The Double Scoop<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a fan of rap especially old school hip hop, than you\u2019ve probably noticed the sound and feel of that genre of music has changed over the years. With the exception of a few rappers like J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, and Big Krit just to name a few, most rappers today don\u2019t have much lyrical substance. \u00a0Most of us like to listen to ratchet music every once in a while but it\u2019s also nice to hear songs that can stimulate the mind.<\/p>\n

At the end of last year we got a chance to catch Big Krit\u2019s final show off of his Kritically Acclaimed tour in Atlanta. Neither of us are big fans of local opening acts but one young mc stood out at the show. He was a South Carolina artist by the name of Nick Grant and as soon as he got on stage he looked into the crowd and told us that his job was to make us remember his name, and that he did.<\/p>\n

After the show we had to know more about Nick so we researched him and discovered he had been making music for a minute. We were just blown away by his lyricism. He released his mixtape 88<\/em> at the beginning of last month and the buzz since its release still hasn\u2019t let up. He named the album after the year he was born (1988) and because that year was considered the \u201cgolden era\u201d of hip hop.<\/p>\n

His sound is reminiscent of the late 90s and early 2000s but at the same time still current. Although he is from the south his sound is very northern. \u00a0He reminds you of rappers like Nas, Common and Jadakiss. There were a lot of dope songs on the mixtape; some of our faves were Black Sinatra, Gold Chains, Contradiction, Royalty, and The Jungle<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Black Sinatra has a Jay Z\/The Blue Print feel to it and is loaded with metaphoric lyricism over a smooth beat.<\/p>\n

Gold Chains speaks on how people have become mentally enslaved to material things.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/em><\/strong>Niggas dying for Gold Chains<\/em><\/strong>
\nNiggas dying for Gold Chains
\nNigga we mentally enslaved
\nBuy Gold Chains do anything to drive a Range nigga<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Contradiction was another one of our favorites. It\u2019s the love song that talks about what many women are afraid to hear; the guy who loves you but just can\u2019t commit.<\/p>\n

She said love don\u2019t cost a thing<\/em><\/strong>
\nWon\u2019t expose her heart to pain
\nI said love done came and went
\nIt packed up and caught the train<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And of course as avid Big Krit fans we were definitely loving the Royalty remix which also featured Killer Mike. Grant is definitely not afraid to speak out on relevant issues that are taking place in society but like he said in Window Seat,\u00a0<\/em>another song off of the mixtape, \u201cdon\u2019t call him gangster or conscious, he\u2019s just being real and honest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

88 will definitely appease the appetites of hungry hip hop fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Authors: The Double Scoop If you\u2019re a fan of rap especially old school hip hop, than you\u2019ve probably noticed the sound and feel of that genre of music has changed over the years. With the exception of a few rappers like J Cole, Kendrick Lamar, and Big Krit just to name a few, most rappers … Continue reading “Nick Grant 88”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[47,254,255,279,349,356,364,409,411],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-film","tag-47","tag-hip-hop","tag-hip-hop-culture","tag-jay-z","tag-music","tag-nas","tag-nick-grant","tag-rap","tag-rapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}