A-Reece Lists Hip Hop Albums That Changed His Life
A-Reece Lists Hip Hop Albums That Changed His Life. There are music projects that a person can hear and they will have an impact on a person’s life. Music has the ability to impact lives and different ways. SA Rapper A-Reece recently took to Twitter and shared names of albums that changed his life. He shared the names of albums that had an impact on his life. The names were a mixture of artists who are from South Ah and America. The artists could even be considered Hip Hop OGs.
A-Reece shared that the late SA Hip Hop artists, Hip Hop Pantsula and ProKid albums, YBA 2 NW and ProKid’s 2005 debut album Heads and Tales changed his lives. Both these albums are considered SA Hip Hop classics. HHP’s YBA 2 NW is one of his most successful albums. The rapper passed away in 2018 and was instrumental in pioneering Motswako rap. In his tweet, A-Reece also mentioned American Hip Hop albums, from Kanye West, Nas and 50 Cent.
“albums like illmatic, all eyez on me, get rich or die trying, college dropout, encore, YBA 2 NW and heads and tales CHANGED MY LIFE,” tweeted A-Reece. The award-winning rapper has previously shared that he grew up listening to HHP and PRO and their music influencing him to rap. A-Reece explained to publication CLash,” I grew up listening to the 90s trio TKZee, Morafe and the late HHP (Hip Hop Pantsula) and PROP to name a few and that’s part of the reason I wanted to rap and these are the South African legends I want to honour in my work. I remember watching HHP’s ‘Music and Lights’ video and seeing Amere in it, for me that breaking boundaries,” he told the publication.
American rapper 50 Cent’s album, Get Rich or Die Tryin is a record that A-Reece has previously noted as a huge influence on his rap career. He previously shared in an interview with Clash, that his brother used to play the album a lot. “50 Cent’s ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ was a pivotal record. The whole damn thing! My brother would play it every morning before school, basically every day. I was still in kindergarten then but it left its mark,” shared A-Reece with the publication.
A-Reece in his feature on Forbes Magazine he broke down how, Kanye West’s production style has influenced his project, Tragedy, Tomorrow’s Memory: The Mixtape. “I’d ask myself: what the hell was Kanye thinking?” A-REECE says. “How’d he end up deciding he is gonna chop the record like that — dissect it and put it back together into something totally new. I’ve always wanted to be able to do that,” he told Forbes.
