Song of the Day - MURS: yesterday and Today

If you listen to the last track I put up of MURS', you might think that Nick Carter is just another underground gangster rapper, but that's just not the case.


Nah, Mr. Carter (the real Carter) is definitely way more versatile than that. Here he is flowing over what I call a "nostalgic" beat just rapping about the changes one can go through life. Displaying excellent storytelling skills, he first takes you through the life of a reformed gangster, then tells us a story about a first love, and wraps it all up with an uplifting message to us all. It could be kinda sappy if this was the only kind of music he did, but on this particular album it comes right before L.A. and Dreamchaser, which is a far darker story, so it works pretty well tone-wise, to me.

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