I’m going to review what is essentially a new EP from Crimson and EthniKids. Crimson who hails from the Bronx and Tallahassee’s own Julian Cruz have teamed up to deliver one of the most interesting groupings of music I’ve heard this year. Crimson, outspoken member of Capital 6 is known as an incredible lyricist. He just has a way of putting a lot of really big words into really tight rhyme schemes that flow off effortlessly. J. Cruz was introduced to me by outlawed beats. J. Cruz and the EthniKids(his production team) stood out immediately for me with high quality production and electronic influences.
Based on both artists previous material, you wouldn’t really see these two coming together. They are both excellent artist but they seemed to occupy different niches of music. That would be my sentiment except for the fact that the last track I heard from Crimson with an heavy electronic influence was Throw it Down. This track remains to this day my favorite Crimson songs, so I had high hopes going into this project. .
Low and behold after hearing a few rumblings about a release being in the work. We finally saw some of these tracks get released to the public. Interestingly enough it seems like Crimson and Ethnkids sided against releasing an album or an EP. Instead they just released five singles. So for the sake of my sanity. I will from this point on refer to these songs as “We Put Out Some Songs” EP after the cheeky title of their blog post announcement.
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