{"id":11757,"date":"2019-07-12T20:15:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altwire.net\/?p=11757"},"modified":"2022-06-08T16:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T20:35:13","slug":"the-epitome-still-trill-altwire-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/the-epitome-still-trill-altwire-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Der Inbegriff \u2013 Still Trill: Explosiver Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":m2\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":m1\" class=\"a3s aXjCH\">\n<h4 class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/theepitomekc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"2119\" data-old-href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/theepitomekc\" data-old-><strong>Der Inbegriff<\/strong><\/a> obviously has beef with all of us.&nbsp;<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">The Kansas City native and frequent <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/ish1da\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"2120\" data-old-href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/ish1da\" data-old-><strong>Ish1da<\/strong><\/a> collaborator just dropped a Super Spirit Bomb onto the favorite platforms of every music streamer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">I challenge you to listen to&nbsp;<\/span><em><strong><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s2\">Still Trill <\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">and disagree.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">Disclaimer: Neither myself nor AltWire, condone the events that took place in Universe 7 during the Kid Buu saga. The destruction that took place, with effects that still linger to this day, is nothing short of a catastrophe&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">&#8230;just like the remnants of the recording studio that The Epitome recorded&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s2\"><em><strong>Still Trill<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">at.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">I really hope that it wasn\u2019t a home studio.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">All proceeds from the sales of this album will go towards The Epitome Build-A-Home fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">Meanwhile, as we sleep, and The Epitome starts his home-hunting quest,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s2\"><em><strong>Still Trill<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">begins by urging us to&nbsp;<\/span><em><strong><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s2\">\u201cWake Up\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/em><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s2\">Aufwachen&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">features Ish1da and Canadian emcee Ekaj. It serves as a much-needed wake-up call to those of us who are still 9 to 5\u2019ing it.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s1\">Ish1da sums up the feeling of that struggle and his coping method on the hook:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s3\"><i>Wake up, wake up can\u2019t take another pay cut\/<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s3\"><i>Lookin like I\u2019m motherf\u2014ing Brock when I be blazed up\/<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s3\"><i>Lookin like the third division captain when I\u2019m paid up\/ <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-4695781059435806388p1\"><span class=\"m_-4695781059435806388s3\"><i>Wake up, wake up can\u2019t take another paycut<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"adL\">Still Trill has a combination of great lyrics, melodies, and yes, Nerd Bars &amp; references that is rarely found in today\u2019s independent <a href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/neugieriger-hip-hop\/\">Hip Hop<\/a>. It\u2019s as if this album was designed to be a lean manufacturing technique, designed by Six-Signa Black Belt The Epitome, to automate the psychic industry.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>It knows when you want to be energetic, it knows when you want to be laidback, and Still Trill knows when you are ready to turn up.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>My favorite tracks on this album are:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Old<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Me&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>featuring Kadesh Flow &amp; VInyl Richie &#8211; On this track, The Epitome finds himself &nbsp;reminiscing &nbsp;about his former self, while recognizing how far he has evolved. In the end, he decides that he is a better person and says, &#8220;<em>F&#8212;<\/em> the old me!&#8221; I also love the jazzy accompaniment at the end of the song.<\/li>\n<li>Und <em><strong>Scott Summers<\/strong><\/em><em>,&nbsp;<\/em>a lit anthem that <a href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/lights-debutiert-verlorene-tochter\/\">Lichter<\/a> up the atmospshere, just like its namesake&#8217;s optic blasts. Hopefully, this one gets a video!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still Trill is Shakespearean, in the fact that it is a Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream for everyone who is looking for a soundtrack to play, while bending blocks or skirting the main street on the hottest day in recent memory in their hometown.<\/p>\n<p>Still Trill is definitely The Epitome of that classic heat.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Listen to Still Trill here:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Der Inbegriff\" width=\"1200\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fusers%2F27287497&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"hi\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Epitome obviously has beef with all of us.&nbsp; The Kansas City native and frequent Ish1da collaborator just dropped a &#8230; <a title=\"The Epitome &#8211; Still Trill: Explosive Hip-Hop\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/the-epitome-still-trill-altwire-review\/\" aria-label=\"Mehr zu The Epitome &#8211; Still Trill: Explosive Hip-Hop\">Weiterlesen \u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":11758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[475,1034,228,1033],"class_list":["post-11757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","tag-ish1da","tag-kadesh-flow","tag-nerdcore","tag-the-epitome","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altwire.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}