EP Review: Tech N9ne- Seepage

Average Rating: 9.3/10

Overall Rating: 8.5/10

         1.  Choking From It Skit

         2. Seepage Ft. Tonesha Sanders (10/10)

         3. Asshole Ft. Big Scoob & Krizz Kaliko (9/10)

         4. Alucard (10/10)

         5. Bite me Ft. Jessica Slankard &Tonesha Sanders (8/10)

         6. Trippin Comin’ Ft. Krizz Kaliko (9.5/10)

    Tech N9ne is probably one of the busiest artists in the industry; just in 2010 he had a total of two albums, he started off his year with the album “K.O.D” which was his best album to date, then the album “The Gates Mixed Plate” came out, it was a good album, but much lighter than KOD or anything Tech has done, in the same year he had an EP, which was full of K.O.D leftovers, which was called “The Lost Scripts of K.O.D”, it came out between K.O.D and The Gates Mixed Plate, it was as good as K.O.D, then in October he had a mixtape called “Bad Season” which was made to get his thoughts back together, and then finally he released another EP called “Seepage”, but was Seepage a great small group of tracks, or just a sign that Tech is getting tired.

      Seepage brought in a whole different side of Tech and a bit of a deeper and more human side in his other music. The EP talked about Tech’s feelings, his personal traits, the stages in his life, and a few other things, it was a hard concept, especially for anyone especially because the whole EP which was just six tracks, but did Tech pull it off? well, given that the production here where beats that he had for K.O.D, but ended up not using for K.O.D, and given the fact that Tech is at his best when he works with that type of style, it looked like that the EP really shaped well as far as I’m concerned.

   

     As I mentioned Seepage was made up of just six tracks, so there isn’t about much to look at here other than the six tracks and how they went together. Tech talked about a lot of stuff on Seepage, he talked about his dark thoughts, dark events that happened to him, and the fact that he can’t avoid his dark side on the EP’s best track “Seepage”, he talked about the term ‘Asshole’ and the fact that people call him an asshole in the track “Asshole”, he talked about the fact he’s better than a lot of rappers out there, and the fact that there are a lot of rappers who went on ‘the KOD’s side’ on “Alucard” which was really dark and aggressive, he talked about how girls want Tech to sexually abuse them and taking things to the limit in “Bite Me”, also, Tech talked about fake friends, fake people and generally just his views on liars in the really emotional track “Trippen Coming”.

     Seepage does come close to being one of the best EPs out there, but there were some issue with it though. One big issue with the Seepage EP was that even as an EP it felt a bit rushed, it all felt like ‘c’mon let’s just put this out!’, also like every EP it gives the listeners the desire for more, but the difference between Seepage and other EPs was that this EP really did give the desire more than any other EP, and in a higher rate than desired or which is even recommended for an EP to do that.

    

     Looking at Seepage as a whole, it really was an excellent EP. Seepage had its big ups, every track was really something great, the album felt personal, and more importantly Tech’s rhymes where all very smart and clever, so is Tech getting tired? No, honestly I think he’s just getting better by the minute; did the EP give everything right on just six tracks?  In a way yes, but at the same time it did feel a bit rushed though. Overall this was really a very strong EP, especially with the fact that he really expended his music by letting his character grow and go on different levels more than ever here.