Mayday! - Mayday!

Genre hip hop Publisher Southbeat Records External Links Official Mayday! Website Official Southbeat Records Website

Hip-Hop is evolving into many different directions nowadays. Unless you are a true hip-hop head it might be a little hard to swallow the first two tracks, "Mission Statement" and "4x4", but they are interesting to listen to! They have something to say. They come in strong with, "And still they blast the blasphemy/they bask in it/rewind the pain/contained like masochists". From just this opening, I get from them a non-conforming route to maintaing hip-hop at it's finest. Those who do conform do it for ratings and sales. It hurts the hip-hop community to stand down with the only justification of being completely commercial and non-controversial which, in my eyes, strips rap down into a million shreds of nothingness. We then move to "In the V.I.P" featuring Killa Kela. Confusing. In the first 16 bars he's talking about gigabytes and technology and his Baretta and then going into the hook about not getting into a party. I had no idea what the direction was on this song. I mostly got that he was about to go postal on his job. Forgive me if I'm wrong but that's how I took it. Track 4 is a great song!! It has a perfect name for a song about repetition, "Groundhog Day" and featurs Cee-lo. This song has a great message about stress release for people who work those nine to five jobs feeling like they running in the same place, going nowhere fast. It's also got a great commercial feel to it, very radio friendly. "Beef" talks about street violence and how senseless the killings are. Those who do it never see they have the potential to make things change for themselves. "Nothin'" featuring Devin The Dude is a mellow track. It talks of "everything changes and nothing stays the same", and how nothing can mean everything. Then from there, it goes into "Too Many Notes" which is mostly an interlude with a snippet of a man saying there are "just too many notes". By the end of this album, you have had an experience within the lives and minds of two well put artists.