RMR — Drug Dealing Is A Lost Art: Mini Review
For artists in the industry, they are always classified by genre despite the amount of different sounds they incorporate into their music. And as RMR (Rumor) releases his debut EP — Drug Dealing Is A Lost Art, it brings into question what he is.
When he first released his first single “Rascal,” the world wasn’t ready to take that song seriously. Maybe it is the accompanying music video that relays RMR’s crooning and broken heart with a bunch of men in a trailer park wearing ski-masks and wielding AR-15s at the camera. Though RMR did pull a mean flex with a St. Laurent bullet proof vest, he was more a “meme,” than anything else until the release of second single “Dealer.”
The initial thought of having an artist maintain anonymity for the sake of the music. But when two professional tracks are released and next you see him in the studio with Timbaland, it doesn’t really help your case as now people need to know. The come-up was definitely something. All that professionalism can be heard through Drug Dealing Is A Lost Art.
His brand is akin to the differentiating sounds he has placed onto the fold.. Each track is in its own way a derivative of trap, but RMR takes new approaches. Like the R&B influenced “Nouveau Riche” or the hip-hop centric “WELFARE,” Featuring Westside Gunn.
Drug Dealing Is A Lost Art isn’t this profound project or experience that RMR has put out. It is however a simple teaser of where this artist’s ceiling is. His themes overlay with each other over the EP and as it creates a divide in sound. “Best Friends,” and the Timbaland produced “I’m Not Over You,” for example so similarly so while being two completely different sounds.
It’s a fun and introspective EP that carries a lot of replay value from it’s crisp production and melodies, all of which benefits from excellent and catchy writing from RMR.
