La just signed to Mello Music Group?

no

Josh Rizeberg is definitely a brilliant spoken word poet and not quite as great of an MC, but thats why I always just thought of him as a musical poet that has been accepted by the hip hop community for some reason; invited to hip hop venues and to collaborate on tracks. The heavily relied on stereotypes that pepper Larry's usual articles as he tries to fit every artist into his own stratified muiscal and MC system he has created, i.e. "NW sandal wearing conscious rapper," actually the farthest thing from Rizeberg's music. His music is actually militant and aggressive towards the system, not peace-loving hippy stuff, but again, if you rely only on cliched stereotypes in your writing you'll be wrong sometimes. Larry seemingly creates this musical MC stratification system I suspect through his own experiences as an artist trying to make it in Seattle. These experiences seem to have left him biased towards certain elements of the Seattle hip hop community (see Julis C's review). This has left him quite transparent, bitter much? Just sayin. If corny lyrics to Larry are some of the most complex and scientific knowledge dropped in the longest then I'll take corny anyday over the played out rainy day, cars, money, hoes, strung out teenage suburbanites and bbq's themed songs that seem to dominate the Seattle hip hop scene leaving those of us who actually value skilled and crafty MC's feeling quite dissatisfied. For this I am greatful for poets like J Rizeberg and Julie C and their "magical" and "overly verbose" lyrics even if Rizeberg may be an amazing poet and mediocre rapper. Oh and boombox beats hit hard and compliment Rizebergs poetic lyrics well