516reapa - The New Prodigy

The future of music has arrived. If rap is at its best unfiltered human expression, then here it is in distillate. Have you ever seen a rapper take over a cipher without lyrics? I don't mean to say that they have wack rhymes. I mean that they may not be saying words at all. 516reapa brings that energy to every song. He also may be rapping in another language occasionally. I'm not really sure, and for that matter, I'm not really sure if it matters. For the past month or so, he was dropping music at the breakneck pace of about an album a day. That suddenly stopped, he's taken down much of his recent material, and there's still a ton! Again, I'm not sure any of this matters. For example, all that remains of recent standout TBS•••BLACKPOWERS are the following words: 

"*a righteous term for the keys of mastering neurodivergence, particularly one’s of an introverted black man in America

one of my most precious projects is yours to keep forever :) to stand free in your brain is black power! blackpowers are soul tactics to activate yourself. we black people struggle with self-harnessing, so i made black powers to give you a grip. 🖤

ci §uuf 10 lockpick!s, 10 powers videlicet;

maraboutage - power of possession

the orisha’s chant - power of the gods

lowersslf- power of one’s lower self

sight screaming - power of the eye

redmxxn - power of accession

reload!!! - power of primal rage

777made - power of the angels

refusetobeaslave - power of assertion

shikifujin - power of the reaper's cradle

chosen - power of acceptance

special thanks to dt, prodigy and zzakkatt you guys rock"

How fucking dope is that? So dope that when 516reapa tags his music "Afrofuturism" he may just succeed in taking the term back from the slough of ubiquity and in so doing, presently forge new tomorrows from a repaired past. And that's not even the half of it. Fact is, the closer you listen, the clearer it becomes that he's not just mumbling. Those are indeed words. If you ever imagined rap couldn't possibly get more abrasively dialectal than it is now, reimagine. It's a new day and from Hempstead, NY, rises The New Prodigy.

***12/24/24 EDIT: It's back!***