Sunday 2 October 2016

A REVIEW of E.L’S B.A.R III ALBUM



“It’s not a mixtape; it’s a tradition” raps E.L.. It’s time for the most relevant Hip-Hop mixtape in the country. The VGMA Artiste of the Year presents the third edition of the BAR Mixtape Series, subtitled The LOMI Era. The body of work features greats like Nigeria’s M.I Abaga and Khuli Chana. For 3 years now E.L has been giving young & rising rappers to chance to exhibit their talent to the public. Hence the tape has appearances from Osei, Kiddblack, Ayat, Illa Shaz & Worlasi. As expected, it also features his label mates and rap peers such as Ko-Jo Cue, Gemini, and Dex Kwasi, among others. The 16-track EP also boasts of production by Drumroll, Ghost, EssenceBeats, big dawg, Coptic and E.L himself. This is a fulfillment of real rap.

The 16 track mixtape served us a full dish of Hiphop more than ever! The "BAR 3" is not quite the same as the past ones since, it highlighted significantly all the more new artistes who are breaking or have broken into the standard furthermore, acquainted with us a few makers a great many people haven't knew about yet. To me, I think this Mixtape was done to praise the HipHop society; and that is to say, it recognized the new rulers of Hip hop and also paid reverence to the pacesetters.









THE MUSIC ARTWORK

The BAR Album is for the most part discharged by EL as a Hip hop mixtape for his actual "ELiens" (How he calls his fans).
The BAR | which was discharged in the year 2014 was generally welcomed by the fans since it took them to the very motivation behind why they took after the rapper.
BAR || which won the rapper grants at the 2015 Ghana Music grants likewise was an entirely hip bounce collection.








The BAR season is a collection discharge as well as a development and society to develop the Hip Hop fan base in Ghana. It is generally taken after with an all hip Hop show featured by EL and all artistes who highlights on the BAR collection.

I should say that all collection fronts of the BAR mixtape collection have mirrored the hip Hop idea and it has been a noteworthy bearing for his BAR arrangement. Fans can tell the course of a BAR collection from the collection cover each time it is discharged.

The current year's BAR ||| collection spread is altogether different yet at the same time inside the Hip Hop culture yet fans are somewhat confounded.

EL is shirtless on the spread workmanship for BAR |||, uncovering his '6 Packs', muscles and Tattos'. simply uncovering truths somewhere.



The mixtape featured artistes like Gemini, Dex Kwasi, MI, Khuli Chana, Ko-Jo Cue, Worlasi, Adomaa, Recognise Ali, C-Real, Ayat, Medikal, Teephlow, Illa Shaz, Stargo, Kiddblack, Osei, Cabum, Edem, Medal, Shaker and AI… Production credits goes to EL himself, Drumroll, Ghost, Magnom, DNA, Peewezel, Coptic, Sam1, G. Mo, Slimbo, Essence Beats, and Dj Julz.



The Intro (Change)

The Intro respects the audience, giving a reasonable thought regarding what's in store from the perfect session. E.L shows this isn't really your standard mixtape, yet it goes far similar to a custom.This intro gives a clear idea of what E.L feels about people hating on him after winning the VGMA main award. E.L's conveyance is dynamite! he can rap around a warmed issue and make it appear to be cool. His switch of streams, cadence and styles keeps audience members in anticipation. He opened wide his wings of adaptability, adjusting to styles he's not trademarked with. There's a feeling of certitude that E.L would combine his auto-tuned voice into the tunes. It's false this is Hip-Hop with an African feel in any case, in this manner, the instrumentals say distinctive. The main recognizing variable from outside tapes is the dialect (mix of English, Twi, Ga, and Pidgin English).





The Tape

Honestly, the tape strayed from being an undertaking for the listening joy of rappers as it were. As E.L has understood the persistently developing gathering of people of his music, he held "drop" for them, featuring M.I and Khuli Chana on that track is a special gift.



'The BAR Man' enrolls the best Hip-Hop makers in the diversion right now, to seal the item. Joining the 'innovativeness' of different skilled individuals gives the best kinds of advancement. Slimbo, Dj Juls,Sam1 who delivered 3 melodies on the tape kept it really cool, absenting substantial drums, and joining tests into his instrumentals. The antiquated serenades, overwhelming drums and walking impacts on "Real Time Love" isn't the standard may be E.L wanted to do a love song with old school hiphop feel on the Album. "Its Your Life", my undisputed top choice on BAR III draws out the best in E.L, Kojo Cue and the creative Worlasi of the Nuse fame. The track puts the audience in a "hippy" cattle rustler temperament as the foundation keys mix impeccably with the substantial kicks with local sounds. There's none other than DJ Juls behind such insight. DJ Juls switches the general tone of the tape into a local slow "jamma" mode with "Its your life", well might be that is the reason they named it so. "Pelican fly" and "Bars". The uniqueness in the "LALAFALAMA" beat is dandy — the course of action of the examples, applauds, well-picked hey caps and electric instrumental makes one have that tingly feel.Coptic brought something great on "Can't let it please" which featured osei, the track is smooth with cool rap from E.L.



The new generation of the task is alright for the Ghanaian standard. Aside from "You dont Know" which endured poor acing, having a low volume yield, every other melody were very much built. Edem's verse on "Portey De Be" is something that reveals Edem is a boss on his own.



General Review

Finally, I Think the album is up to standard As a mix of the new and old rappers, Bar III is sure to perplex E.L’s fickle fans and satisfy the more adventurous open to being thrown for a loop. Rather than cheap ploys to cross over, the questionable collaborations are more likely calculated concessions with the intent of sneaking his message to a greater audience. After the "bar" closes and becomes empty with no drinks, E.L proves himself worthy of hero of Ghana hip-hop by subtly and subversively overthrowing the commercialized horrors of his detractors who believed he is not fit for the VGMA main award.














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