The Key To The Game stuff was good but obviously he hadn't seriously found his voice yet and his rhyming was still rough around the edges.
Upped it big time on Dear Listener conceptually, lyrically and content wise - amazing album - but there was still something missing. I still dont think he'd fully found his voice.
But listening through his 2010 stuff now, the guy is there. Terrorist and Obama Nation are two of the best songs of the year and two of the most powerful songs I've ever heard. He's at an unbelievable level right now. There's very few rappers - UK or America - that can touch him at this point.
Even his 2009 stuff was a massive step up from Dear Listener, IMO, he souns so hungry and passionate on everything post DL.
I know very little about future projects but I hinestly could see his next album being something majorly special. Like possibly one of the best rap albums ever, no exaggeration.
The guy is exactly what rap music needs, and UK rap in particular. But not only that, I've watched his speeches and things, and he doesnt just talk the talk. He's out there, getting his message across in more than just the music. Check this out from Wiki:
In July 2008 the Theatre Royal, Bath put on a production of 'Max and Beth', a contemporary adaptation of Macbeth by William Shakespeare written entirely in rhyme.[23] Lowkey also helped publicise the NSPCC's Don't Hide It campaign, also contributing a free song to it, in which his lyrics are delivered from the perspective of a female victim of sexual abuse.[7] He also formed a non-profit organisation, People's Army with fellow rapper Logic, who he has also made an unreleased album with (New World Order[1]), and met up with then-Liberal Democrats leader Menzies Campbell as a representative of his local community.[10] In February 2009, he travelled to Palestine and Palestinian refugee camps around the West Bank area to perform fundraising shows to help rebuild the Gaza Strip but was detained by the Israel Police for nine hours at Ben Gurion International Airport and interrogated.[24] Later in 2009, he travelled with M-1 of Dead Prez to carry out a humanitarian aid mission and bring medical aid to the Palestinian people in Gaza. M-1 mentioned in an interview with PyroRadio.com that a collaboration between the two had been made "I met up with a guy called Lowkey over there as well who’s from London as well, I had a chance to meet with him, he’s a good brother, we built a lot, it was real cool, we gotta get the song out." Lowkey also mentions the song that the two artists wrote together, in an interview on Conspiracy Worldwide Radio.[25] Evidence of the song is still yet to surface.
He's quite obviously a very intellegent person at a time when there is a lot of people holding ignorant views, especially in the UK due to varying reasons, and and he is so passionate about what he does - cannot wait for his next album.
