Initials B.R. is gold-school experimental rap for the aught-age, featuring ornate, deliberate lyrics over dense, anthemic production. It combines the grounded with the atmospheric, the rugged with the transcendent. The result falls somewhere between the inventive bombast of El-P and Company Flow and the efficiency of Black Thought and The Roots. The self-titled debut album is a meditation on private and public music, self-delusion and make believe, Baudeliare and Eliot, con films and musicals.
Consider “The Confidence Man” from Initials B.R.
