Greenville Scene

Nile

by: Keith Groover

If you haven’t checked out part one of this series, you can find it here. Lots of rap in this one, very little of it good. The two highest ranked ones (Coste y Dre and Double Ace Squad) are in Spanish. Much of the rap from the others is well produced, just not very creative. On the other side, a lot of the rock is creative and well written, but not very well produced. It would be interesting to see some of the rock acts go to some of the local rap acts for production and collaboration; I think some great stuff could come out of that.

Again, here’s the rough key of my grading system:

10 - Perfect.
9 - Excellent. I strongly recommend, even to people who don’t like the genre.
8 - Really good, with excellent production, songwriting, and performance. Definitely check these guys out.
7 - Solid, stuff that I liked, but not quite as good as the eights
6 - Well done, but with some untapped potential
5 - Decent, but on the high side of amateur
4 - Possibilities exist to be good, but they aren’t readily apparent
3 - Nothing much going on
2 - Bad
1 - Bad, but worse

Feel free to leave a comment here or in the forum if you think I’ve treated a band unfairly (or maybe too generously.) I only reviewed one song per band, so if that particular song doesn’t demonstrate the band’s abilities, let me know and I’ll re-review it.

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