MIXTAPE OF THE WEEK: Charlie Hilton-Good Food!

MIXTAPE OF THE WEEK
Charlie Hilton-Good Food!

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LINKS
http://charliehilton.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/charliethehilton
http://twitter.com/charliehilton

WOAAAH. This is why I still take time to listen to random tapes from new comers. For every 10 or 20 tapes I listen to, I stumble upon an artist that makes it all worthwhile and gives me that refreshing feeling about hip hop again. Charlie Hilton is a 21 year old producer from London who absolutely kills every beat on this tape. Not only was I impressed by the instrumentals, but all the emcees (all of who are quite new to me) rip every track. This is an extremely polished tape where the quality shines through.

"This is good food baby, something for the soul
substance you can take with you when you go
Cause everybody needs it but some will never know
the feeling that it gives just to let the people know"

There isn't a club or party track on here; just music for the soul and lyrics with substance. Hilton reminds me a bit of Kno (from Cunninlynguists) with his layered instrumentals that have an epic feel to them. Despite all the different emcees, the album still feels very cohesive and the tracks complement each other and flow nicely. There isn't one subpar track and all the emcees impressed but my personal favorite track is "One (ft. Khalil)" with a sample everyone will be familiar with:
Khalil-One