Album Review: Swizz Beatz Releases “Poison”
Swizz Beatz’ Poison is the encapsulation of a man who has created a career building others. Swizz Beatz is a rapper, but he is also an MC and and acclaimed producer who knows how to mix a back-drop and hand over a mic to those that build the fantasy and roughness of “The Streets.”
In life, there is good and bad to everything. Every story will teeter between the glamor and grunge of living, which is something Beatz instinctively understands. Hence, tracks like, “”Something Dirty,” “Echo,” and “Pistol On My Side” are like tight-ropes balancing the walks of life that hold dreams and danger, all at once. With features by Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Jadakiss, and Pusha T, Swizz has summoned heavy weights to give you bop after bop. Men whom understand how to represent worlds that are never shown in accuracy or at all, yet know how to deliver the love that always drapes amongst angst. Hence, there is a tenderness and tension infused into verses and rhythms that makes you think you could throw fists with ANY HATER and give your number to any lover.
Swizz Beatz – Come Again ft. Giggs
From “Preach (feat. Jim Jones)” to “Stunt (feat. 2 Chainz),” this entire album will leave you wide-eyed with energy. Honestly, if you have a final paper you need to crash for, you could use this record to keep yourself awake. Poison is a prime example that confidence can come in the form of sound, and solidifies that Swizz Beatz is your titular hype man. Yet, his years in the industry and traveling the globe as a man of all trades/ interests has heightened his meticulous placement of every beat and lyric. Thus, in a way, feels like Swizz Beatz at his most “Swizz Beatz.” It is his same iconic bounce matches with a sense that he has expanded enough, as a person and artist, to make you feel like his world has grown. To Buy Swizz Beatz Poison Click Here.
Swizz Beatz – Pistol On My Side (P.O.M.S) ft. Lil Wayne
