Liym Courteous – F.L.O.A.T PAMPHLET [EP]

Liym Courteous is an honor student of the East Coast brand of rap: Don’t speak if you have nothing to say. Never, ever bite. Keep your eyes open and your wallet in your front pocket. And if your words aren’t positive, at least let them come from the heart.

And if LL Cool J’s Radio and Big Daddy Kane’s Long Live The Kane were his textbooks, then F.L.O.A.T PAMPHLET is his thesis statement. Topics include the come-up (“NVRNO”), how to chill (“PARLAY”) and how to be seen at your best (“YELLOW LABEL”). It’s filled with vivid rhymes, a rugged ethical code (“lyin’ don’t get you nothin’ but a perjury charge”), and beats that clink and shine like wine glasses. Courteous may be a bit older than the cats that rock the Beast Coast movement, but perhaps his tenure through that era of hip hop is the reason why F.L.O.A.T sounds familiar, but not forced.

Download: Liym Courteous – F.L.O.A.T Pamphlet [Mediafire]