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Music Album Review: “Results Take Time” by Symba [Blazin'! - 5 Boomboxes]

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Music Album Review: “Results Take Time" by Symba 5 Boomboxes “Symba keeps his listeners on their toes: physically, the listen will move, and mentally, they will be sure to think.” REVIEW PRESENTED BY BTC'S RAP PROMPT BOOK 10 Prompts to Start Your Next Album Album  “Results Take Time”   Released:  September 15, 2022 Length:  52:33 Genre:  Hip Hop Rap RnB Soul Written by: Symba & DJ Drama Produced by: Symba & DJ Drama Sym, is that a Rolex?  ⌚ "Results take time." Fax.  📠 "This shit didn't happen overnight."      "Results Take Time" by Bay rapper, Symba is swag and consciousness. It's akin to one of the best times in Hip Hop, when beats were hard-hitting and lyrics scintillating, the early 90s. And in this millennium, where unfortunate deaths and the Soundcloud rapper's experimentations take out some prime lyricists — Cough.Ka.Takeoff.cough — "Results Take Time" is an album the Hip Hop community needed.      In other

Music Single Review: "Archetype" by Omar Apollo [Basic! - 3 boomboxes]

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Music Single Review: "Archetype" by Omar Apollo 3 Boomboxes "... Archetype is redolent of an indie RnB track, and one expects the freedoms that indie artists are afforded for their little pay and fanbase." Single from album  “ Archetype ”   Released:  June 15, 2022 Length:  2:48 Genre:  Rnb & Soul   Written by: Omar Apollo   Produced by: Oscar Santander,  Omar Apollo  & Carter Lang          " Archetype" by Omar Apollo struggles due to its limitations. Sometimes, a song can have the right ingredients for a chart-rising track, a funky bass, a bouncy piano, steady rhythm, and versatile vocals, but it simply doesn’t blend right to make a fresh and entertaining experience.            Using the tropes and rhythms previously practiced by artists with tracks that earned reputable success is trite and boring. It limits the artist. It stifles the artist’s creativity, putting them in a box that won’t allow them to fully express themselves, as they must f