January 29, 2002 - Citizen Cope and Let The Drummer Kick

On the same day as my last release a new artist briefly joins my library when Citizen Cope released his second album "Citizen Cope" on January 29, 2002. But who is Citizen Cope? He's a hip-hop artist from Memphis, Tennessee who plays guitar, keyboards and also does drum programming. I'm not a big Citizen Cope fan by any means, I only have one song in my library, but it's a catchy one called "Let The Drummer Kick". It's driven by a repetitive but pretty catchy little piano riff along with a catchy drum beat, but this song is all about the vocals. Cope sings in a decent voice a whole bunch of words that all end in -ation, and while things are really simple and nothing is blowing you away, it's just really catchy and smooth! The chorus is just the name of the song on repeat and isn't anything special, but Cope adds some more involved rapping vocals in the next verse and things sound pretty solid even though this isn't usually my thing. It's a one-hit wonder, but an interesting one!

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