Rap Release of the Week: Kane Mayfield’s ‘Rhymes By Kane: Thievery Corporation Edition’ – SPIN
Rap Release of the Week: Kane Mayfield’s ‘Rhymes By Kane: Thievery Corporation Edition’ – SPIN
Written by Brandon Soderberg | July 25, 2012 – 9:21 pm
Kane Mayfield was one of the many rappers I lumped into the “Guys Who Think It’s 1993” category in SPIN’s “Hip-Hop Issue” infographic from December of last year. He’s from Long Island and he sounds like he’s from Long Island, and over the past few years, he’s built a reputation that has gotten him some love on, well, the kinds of sites that are mad at a jokes like, “Guys Who Think It’s 1993.” The first track on Rhymes By Kane is a burst of expertly-rapped, hot-sounding, lyrically-lyrical nonsense; and in lieu of a hook, there’s a cool, calm, and collected speech from a kung-fu movie. Pretty typical stuff, except that over the aphorism-spewing sensei, Mayfield provides running Mystery Science Theater 3000-style commentary: