18/07/2024
Please Don't Cry.. Masterpiece 👏🏾🙌🏿
The Most Underrated Female Rapper Alive ‼️
Marlanna Evans better known by her stage name Rapsody, is an American rapper. After signing with music producer 9th Wonder's music label It's a Wonderful World Music Group, she released a series of mixtapes and collaborated with Erykah Badu and Talib Kweli.
Soon afterwards Rapsody released her debut album "The Idea of Beautiful" (2012). She would attain further prominence when she was featured on Kendrick Lamar's 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly, on the track "Complexion (A Zulu Love)".
Her second album, "Laila's Wisdom" (2017), received critical acclaim and was nominated at the Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song.
Rapsody released her third studio album, "Eve" on August 23, 2019, to critical acclaim from music critics. In 2020, she was featured alongside Cordae, Chika, and Busta Rhymes, on the Stevie Wonder song "Can't Put It in the Hands of Fate".
Rapsody released her fourth album, "Please Don't Cry" on May 17, 2024. The North Carolina rapper’s fourth album clarifies her identity and the depth of her talent over lush blends of R&B, Gospel, Reggae, and Trap. It’s a vivid affirmation of self and community and a Rap clinic. Please Don’t Cry sets the record straight. Taking a hammer to the idea that she is merely a lyricist or conscious rapper her own monolith.
At 41, Rapsody’s got nothing to prove, but plenty on her mind, and lots of ways to share it. From the opening lines of “Marlanna,” her real name, she’s in constant flux, reintroducing herself as a vocalist and composer as much as a lyricist. “The one they call boring, still boarding/I’m unseen, I’m morphine, I tried to ease your pain/Now I’m morphing, some never change, I had to,” she raps, her pitch rising with each line.
The tidal flows and layered writing aren’t just for show. Like Denzel Curry on Melt My Eyez and Kendrick on Mr. Morale, Rapsody has been going through some things, and her expanded toolkit of vocal tics lets her express her shifting emotions.
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