John Reuben
I just heard this guy on this week's NPR: All Songs Considered, and it's an interesting listen. ASC host Bob Boilen is right on when he says that Reuben's rapping is "pretty slow, but [has] decent words." In fact, Reuben says some pretty interesting stuff about the commodification and scene striation of music (a subject on which I tried to author a post and failed miserably) in his song "Word of Mouth" (which you can stream here).
He's a Christian rapper, which oftentimes provokes a knee-jerk reaction against the music in non-Christian rock/rap listeners, but he's not prostlytizing.
Anyway, it's something different. His new album "Word of Mouth" drops Feb. 6.
