Man On Fire
“Certain things capture your eye, but pursue those things that capture the heart”
Music, art, creations should be unabashedly real, raw and emotive. To achieve these things one has to have a fierce energy that is unrivaled. The reason that artists are lauded as superhuman is that their personas are larger than life and to be this their creative spirit has to seek new forms of expression constantly. Phrase is that artist. A powerful voice in the midst of mediocrity, his writing style is aggressive and trampling. His voice and inflection speaks to strength and his carefully constructed bars are a writer’s writing, not the nursery bar rhymes of modernity that are over simplistic and reliant on the beat to carry the artist. Phrase manages to find equilibrium with the production, the composition nor his rhymes over power the other, instead they wave, undulate and melt into an agitated pot of reality, truth and poetry.
Man on Fire is the latest track from the artist and the video is apt to capture the artistic vision of the man. With the visuals filmed by Nick of the famed NicksPrintShop the track comes to life. It starts as a blurred image of a Phrase laying prone on the desert floor, then as he spits attacking bars the camera follows him on a walk/journey through the desert. His wordplay and writing is rebellious, even as he remains calm, cool, collected in stature his rhymes are swirling and capturing energy as its sent out to receptive ears. With stunning visuals and beautiful desert landscapes this videos is the perfect following to his last Mannequin. Listen to the infamous battle rapper/artist/brand do what he does best, create!