Red Pill

Red Pill is the everyman's rapper. A 26-year-old from the Detroit suburbs, his raps are laden with the everyday struggles of being young, broke, and hopeless. His message is anti-establishment, but the way he delivers it is quite unique. Rather than finding solace in drug-induced higher consciousness, Red Pill presents bleak hypotheticals over dreamy boom-bap beats. This dude is not just another suburban white rapper employing played out "follow your dreams" lyricism. His messages are "an artful rebuttal to nihilism," as the lengthy description of his Look What This World Did To Us LP puts it. Honestly that's pretty accurate, and that LP is deep. Not a sleeper track on there, and it gets right to the point. No fancy production or dumb interludes, just dope raps over equally dope beats (lots of cool vinyl samples). His latest release, the Day Drunk EP is a bit more upbeat but still just as substantial. Red Pill is a new kind of conscious rapper that keeps it real as he wastes his life away at a dead-end job in a boring town. This is inspirational rap that's easily digestible. The beats are classic, the rhymes are creative, and the delivery is 100% comprehensible. Smoke one to this and clear your head.