Legends of the Hidden Temple - Milo

Hip-hop and rap are still relatively young genres in terms of being widely accepted. In its latest years, hip-hop has been diced minced into even more specific categories, starting first with gangster rap, and now so far polarized that genres like nerd-rap can become popular. 

21 year old Rory Ferreira, otherwise know as, Milo is a self-proclaimed Rapsmith. His music can be defined as nerd-hop, or conscious hip-hop. Milo isn't afraid to show off his expansive lexicon and deep philosophical enlightenment.

 Milo's musical catalog becomes increasingly more personal after each release. It feels quite like reading his sarcastically witty diary (oh wait, guys write in journals right?).   

Milo is a relatively new artist releasing his debut mixtape entitled "I Wish My Brother Rob Was Here" on November 1st, 2011. This release took the Internet music world by storm with its relatable and poignant pop culture references. February 19th, 2012 (OMG, a year and a day ago), marked the release of "Milo Takes Bath." A clever pun, being that the album was limited to rapped over instrumentals of glitch-hop artist Baths.

 With the Milo hype building, and music reviewers anxiously awaiting, the expectations for his latest release we're rather high. Milo responded to this hype with a monster double EP named: Things That Happen At Day/Things That Happen At Night. Milo writes on his Bandcamp that the dense release is, "a double-ep exploring duality and responsibility. It is unavoidably obtuse, overwhelmingly self-important and I am not sorry.” 

Although this particular track is a bit scatterbrained, it's easy to tell where Rory is coming from. Legends of The Hidden Temple, the 4th track off TTHAD, is an obvious reference to a 90s Nickelodeon game show, which me makes reference to deep in the track. 

Milo nonchalantly speaks to a unnamed love interest on this particular track alluding to the things he could have possibly done differently-all over a beautifully produced glitchy electronic track with heavy and saddening strings. 

Milo's catalog covers some interesting and less touched upon topics like long distance Internet relationships. The best part is most of the music is free to download, and if not, it's free to stream.

Tell myself I’m not a jerk
Tell your mom I’m not a jerk
Shy away from jobs, borrow money, anything that works,
That isn’t work