The album "Beverly Green Drive" is yet another solid building block of a true hip hop veteran's legacy.
I first discovered the artist Beware while working as a DJ and promoter for a mixtape mini tour called the Starving Artist Project somewhere back around 1998. I have to say almost 25 years later he still holds the same heat if not more. If you know anything about the music business you know that one of the keys to it is to achieve longevity, and if you can do that with quality rather than with gimmicks or whatever that solidifies the legend that is you even more within the music industry's book of life. The starving artist project exposed me to a lot of music from several different artist from around the Washington DC Metropolitan area and 1 of Beware's songs held a place of heavy rotation in my head.
"Beverly Green Drive"
The things that stood out to me about Beware's music still reins true with this project. A piece of advice to young artist is that a artist that writes songs will always make more money than a battle rhymer unless that battle rhymer learns how to turn all those punchlines into a snazzy song. Beware in my opinion has perfected writing a song that you can vibe and party with yet it still keeps the feeling and snap of having a person right in front of you and you telling them about themselves in a way so slick through rhymes that they can't do shit with you.
The whole album is laced with driving beats that hold up to the unique cadence that this man loves to use. "Beverly Green Drive" along with most of Beware's albums makes me think about Rakim only add gangster attitude to the straight spit. The thing is that you can listen to his music in the time its made for and it cranks, but you can play it in a whole other era with the music of that era and it fits plus still cranks. Speaking of cranking music with attitude literal seeds of superstars were planted by this man years ago.
Superstar Seeds
You will always reap what you've sewn so don't just plant seeds cultivate them too. On muvas when Beware and his baby muva made their superstar daughter Rico Nasty they cultivated greatness and a true representation of when hip hop resides in the blood it shows along your timeline. Don't believe me well just watch. With songs like "STFU" and "Smack a Bitch" you can plainly see the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Like her father Rico tells the world that she does what she wants in a slick manner. Let Beware tell it with the song " You & I" on the album "Beverly Green Drive" his daughter does it better and slicker than he ever will. Time will tell on all that but 1 thing is for sure if they did battle each other it would probably be the battle of the century. Stay tuned you never know what the future may bring but what you do know is its gone leave ya ears drippin like only real Auditory Stimuli do.
