Phonte - Charity Starts At Home (REVIEW)
By: Dorian McCormick
For those who’ve been waiting on the epic return of the underground North Carolina hip hop group Little Brother, we have good news. The solo album from Phonte, 1/3 of the group, was released September 27, 2011.
The album is packed with smooth flowing lyrics as well as a couple of smooth R&B inspired tracks. The album has 12 tracks and lives up to Phonte’s past works with Little Brother as well as The Foreign Exchange. The album has good quality music as well as substance that true hip hop fans will enjoy.
As far as production on the album, there are still some remnants to from old friends such as 9th Wonder and Khrysis. A couple of fellow underground artist make guest appearances on the album. Fellow underground rappers such as Pharoahe Monch and Elzhi from Slum Village stop by to drop a couple of cold verses. Phonte does a great job on expressing his emotions with his personal problems on “Who Loves You More”.
“Some get hand picked others get picked on,
Some get a hand up others get disarmed
Came from the bottom where the guns get withdrawn
All lows no highs man get a stiff arm
See me doing records so they think it makes a lot
But really I’m just trying to mix a lot
Like I was raised Islam
Praying that the ends justify the means
Cause most of my heroes had fucked up lives”
This is definitely an album that you can play start to finish. I believe the beauty of this album would have to be the fact is an undeniable breath of fresh air. Phonte is known for the quality of his music and it doesn’t seem that after all these years he’s strayed from it at all. As he states in “Not Here in Anymore”, “I don’t need the lime light/ that’s young nigga shit...”
Phonte shows if you stay true to the quality of your music as well as being true to yourself through whatever adversity, nobody can hold you down.
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