New Music – Dead Pairs

PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 is the newest installment in the Bones saga. Bones being the dead inside, dreadful, gritty rapper from California that has racked up some serious attention over his long spanning career in music, gaining a long-term following of die hard fans. Bones, while an artist in the game for a long amount of time has only now caught my attention in the past year as HermitOfEastGrandRiver was the tape that finally broke the surface of Bones for me, exposing what would soon become one of my favorite artists.

Bones had a hand in creating or shaping one of the newer styles of rap music, this is mostly what PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 touches upon, all the clones and mere copy-cats that Bones has produced. On the track “YourMusicSucksAndYouLookLikeADickHead” which really needs no explanation, however, Bones explains “All of you make me fucking sick, swear you doing shit that nobody did, everything you done I done already did, tell me how many times do we gotta do this?” The straight insults that Bones throws down on PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 is just down outstanding. Bones calls out every person that has ever tried to crack down on his style, and he knows that no one else can do what he does so well.

Bones has always been known for not taking too kindly to anyone who tries to steal any style or repaint a picture that has already been painted. PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 is a continuation of what Bones does best, he creates great hip-hop songs with catchy beats that are both innovative and destructive at the same time. The bass that shakes floorboards and feels like an earthquake every time it hits. It is something magical when Bones drops some new music for the fans to take in, just the instrumentation and Bones delivery on each track from the near screaming on “PeteyPablo” to the soft spoken near whisper on “DeletedScenes,” PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 has such diversity through production and verses.

The most impressive track had to be “MagentaLavaLamp” where Bones spits some verses over David Bowie’s “Lazarus.” The production on Bowie’s track just begged to be sampled and Bones left it pretty similar to the original. Rather than remixing the track, he just simply loops the soft saxophone and rising synth. This was the type of production I was looking forward to hearing going into PAIDPROGRAMMING 2, grungy, but still smooth overall.

PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 is the perfect tape to dive head first into if you know nothing about Bones. It is not nearly as heavy as Useless, but still captures what Bones is all about. HermitOfEastGrandRiver is also a great place to start, but PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 wraps up all the best things about Bones, it is grimy, loud, but still smooth enough where the listening curve is not quite present. PAIDPROGRAMMING 2 is not only interesting, but innovative and rejuvenating, Bones will forever hold the crown, as The Dead King of hip-hop.