"Sleepyhead’s Kevin Elder has remained low on the Portland hip-hop radar for reasons that are at best unclear—and at worst, downright confusing. The rail thin Stumptown native has six years of spitting under his belt, with endorsements from the likes of Copy and Corban Lester to boot, and No School only further proves his ability to contend with the city’s finest rappers.
Most of No School’s production sticks close to Sleepyhead’s pre-established aesthetic, which favors synthesizers over instrumentation and shouted hooks over vanilla singsong. Though he functions best when rapping over something with a certain helping of grit, Sleepyhead drops consistently memorable rhymes on No School’s 14 tracks, even when sharing the spotlight with Dismal City compatriots such as Oh and Shambles."
Review excerpt originally from Willamette Week's Local Cut, by Shane Danaher.
Release date: 2008
Album type: Digital (320kbps, LAME encoded, DRM-free)
Artist(s) featured: Sleepyhead
Duration: 51 minutes
Disclaimer: contains explicit content or some shit like that.
Most of No School’s production sticks close to Sleepyhead’s pre-established aesthetic, which favors synthesizers over instrumentation and shouted hooks over vanilla singsong. Though he functions best when rapping over something with a certain helping of grit, Sleepyhead drops consistently memorable rhymes on No School’s 14 tracks, even when sharing the spotlight with Dismal City compatriots such as Oh and Shambles."
Review excerpt originally from Willamette Week's Local Cut, by Shane Danaher.
Release date: 2008
Album type: Digital (320kbps, LAME encoded, DRM-free)
Artist(s) featured: Sleepyhead
Duration: 51 minutes
Disclaimer: contains explicit content or some shit like that.