What if I told you, there’s an album that you may have never heard but is as a regal work of art. A LeBron James-like masterpiece.
Calling A&R LeBron.
Last month, King James Gospel was given the opportunity to interview up and coming music artist Junior, a Texas native whose message resonates with the Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper and Lupe Fiasco fans of the world.
As a result, it would seem that an individual like LeBron James, who has taken to using social media to give music appraisals to rappers like Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Rick Ross, would like to hear Junior’s newest album, To The People, For The People.
Junior, who originally hails from Mart, Texas, a small town near a big city, has a background that James could empathize with considering how he too had to ignore gang cultures and drug cultures to chase his dreams. To this point, Junior has had some success, recently receiving a shoutout from radio personality Charlamagne The God.
To The People, For The People is a 13-track CD with limited features but the ones that do, like the smooth intro “National Anthem, a song that absorbs you into the rest of the album. From the instant the CD begins, you get a sense that this young man isn’t just a rapper, he’s one of the great orators of our time.
His eloquence and cadence isn’t that of an amateur. Junior sounds much like Frederick Douglass with a microphone and a 808. The soliloquies on his interludes are Martin Luther King in spoken word.
Listening to him as an artist, he has a vibe and bounce that’s not surprising. The Texas music scene, much like that of Atlanta, Georgia, is known for rappers who make music, not just songs. However, Junior’s sound is like nothing you’ve ever heard. He doesn’t even use profanity.
The content of his music resonates with the conscious human being who cares about not just equality and harmony but digging to the root of the societal issues, even exposing unpopular truths like “don’t blame the white man” (Uncle Tom Syndrome).
Junior sounds a lot like a Lupe Fiasco content-wise or perhaps even a J. Cole. Actually, its way more like J. Cole.
Writing that, I have to wonder if LeBron is a fan of Nas, one of the greatest rappers in history. However, LeBron is definitely a fan of Jay-Z, whose album 4:44 is already revered for the meaningfulness of its content.
Nas and Jay-Z, like J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco, Junior and LeBron, are people who uses his voice as best he can to uplift and transform the black community.
With that said, I urge you to listen to the album.