MC Lars: Post Punk Laptop Rap

If someone came up to you and asked you to listen to a group that was "post punk laptop rap" you'd laugh right? Maybe your first thought would be what the hell is post punk laptop rap? Personally, that was my frist thought when someone mentioned MC Lars to me in a conversation. Being a musician is hard enough, but trying being an artist who's pioneering their own genre when the current musical fad revolve around who can write the most insane lyrics titled wtht vwls (without vowls) - we all know who's guilty of it guys; Brand New not being it.

In steps MC Lars, someone who isn't holding back on what he thinks is happening to every music scene, and world - from the Hot Topic take over, to downloading music, and record labels sueing those twelve year olds who can't buy albums "legally". Not to mention they've called out the quickly evolving, and over saturated market that involes the "emo" fad, which in entertaining with lyrics like;

"The label pres. calls and yells, 'Sign more emo!' How about screamo? 'If it sells, sign Nemo, we're down 2%, and BMG knows, my Daughter likes Dashboard, so get me one of those!"

Lars has spent the last 2-3 years building up a strong fans base comprisied of kids with a misfit taste for music, and selling 10,000 copies of his "Laptop EP" and touring around the world with just his trustee laptop gaining a outlet, most unexpected I'd like to think in the "golden" magazine Rolling Stones, and MTV News, both of which usually have a nack for picking future big hitters. It was after all of this; selling an EP to thousands of different fans, being in various outlets Lars decided to do something a bit...different than most musicians. Instead of waiting for a major, or even a small indie label to notice him Lars made the choice to form his own label, Horris Records.

The official release off Horris was The Graduate, a 14-track exploration into the "post-punk laptop rap" field and does it well. One thing about the album that really sticks out are the topics being rapped about, like internet relationships it's laughable but gets a point across: you're not talking to a 21 year old from the UK who likes going to shows alright guys? Then you have the random topic of a time machine, I'm not exactly following and I don't particularly enjoy that track - I skip it everytime on my ipod but it's entertaining. Although, I have to say if I were to pick two tracks that impress me the most, it would be "Download This Song!" and "iGeneration", both tracks have good beats and if I must say are addicting like you wouldn't believe.