This fella isn't getting enough attention. Why is it that the hip hop crown is given to auto-tuning idiots like flo rida and kanye west (to be fair touch the sky was pretty sick), when fresh new talent like Theophilus that really stands out just goes by unnoticed?
Theophilus is a fresh-faced rapper from Brookyln who teams up with machine drum (amazing producer, check him out) to make sick electro/ hip hop music thats just so, so much better than any of the hip hop that plagues the charts these days. With influences a bit uncouth for his genre, i.e the smiths, Ramones, Kraftwerk and Micheal jackson, he's managed to not fall into the horrible "bluntz and broadz" stereotype and go about making hip hop with a sort of "fuck-you-guns-and-nasty-stuff-i'm-just-gonna-make-nice-hip-hop-that-makes-people-happy-because-thats-the-way-it-should-be" vibe. A bit like De la soul. except with way more synths.
Heres one of his mixtapes, geddonit.
(Also check out JAM!, another one he did which is equally fucking amazing.
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