Album Review: Purple Moonlight Pages by R.A.P. Ferreira

Release Date: March 6 2020

Purple Moonlight Pages was released earlier last month, but I really enjoyed it so it doesn’t matter, I make the rules. I often refer to great hip-hop verses as poetry in a somewhat metaphorical sense, however this album is hip-hop fused with spoken word poetry in its most traditional and basic form. Some of the songs were alternative hip-hop, clever, rhymes, references and follows a beat. Some songs were beautiful rhyming passages, often with an echo effect, these did have a backing track, but the words and music didn’t interact, they just coexisted. This I think was the purest example of jazz rap I’ve heard in a while. If you take away the words, you’d have a successful jazz album. However I did find lots of the instrumentation a lil overbearing. The Lyrics were creative, narrative, but the story often disguised a hidden moral or meaning. His vocabulary was awesome, it was dense and you can tell he’s a doom fan. I was so glad I listened to this and I think you’d love it too, you like MF Doom, Madlib, or Earl Sweatshirt’s Some Rap Songs or anything like that.

Favourite Songs: OMENS & TOTEMS, DUST UP, ABSOLUTES, NO STARVING ARTISTS, PINBALL.

Score: 8.9/10

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