Skip to main content. Only time and rhymes will tell. Use as directed, hip-hop. Having spent enough time in hip-hop to have brushed shoulders with legends, seen friends and bandmates become famous, moved out-of-state to pursue music, and returned to start a family, Tab is the rare cautionary tale with a happy ending. For Kooley High, that reality may be hard to relate to, but if all activism and awareness are intersectional, then Charlie Smarts' work in the fight for a living wage for fast-food workers gives the group's social awareness actual heft. Since Kooley High leading lady Rapsody began her solo crusade as the ace of 9th Wonder's Jamla Records, her involvement with her original Raleigh crew has been, at best, spotty. On the thirteen-track Sincerely, Tab , the first Kooley High-associated release since last year's Heights EP, Tab and producer Sinopsis stick to their soulful roots rather than following new fads. 
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Tab-One ends the song and album with a strong declaration of his crew's staying power, getting back to the raps where Kooley High belongs: Home Music Reviews Record review: On the standout "M. You can hear pieces of that spirit on the blues guitar-licked "Carry On," featuring Greensboro vocalist and Charlie Smarts' mother Sandra Gell doing her best Koooey Jones. On "Alone," Smarts is concerned uigh isolating himself from love affairs, while Tab-One wants to isolate himself to nurture his love of penning rap lines.
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Record Review: Kooley High's Tab-One, Reliably Honest on Sincerely, Tab - INDY Week
In the interim, much has changed in local hip-hop. On the thirteen-track Sincerely, Tabthe first Kooley High-associated release since last year's Heights EP, Tab and producer Sinopsis stick to their soulful roots rather than following new fads. Indeed, sanity is what's kept Kooley High from falling foor, even after a key member has moved on to late-night television and marquee guest verses. As is often the case hte Kooley High, the trip can be both conceptually splintered and musically centered.
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Record review: Kooley High's Heights - INDY Week
Charlie Smarts emotes in style, while, without Rapsody, Tab-One must carry the sharp lyrical weight. Having spent enough time in hip-hop to have brushed shoulders with legends, seen friends and bandmates become famous, moved out-of-state to pursue music, and returned to start a family, Tab is the koolwy cautionary tale with a happy ending.
During the past few years, she's gone missing from the group's flyers, performances and appearances, causing a stubborn minority of Kooley High fans to suggest she's a saboteur for having abandoned emcees Charlie Smarts and Tab-One, producers Sinopsis and Recore, and DJ Ill Digitz.
Again, Kooley High dips into the Jamla bucket for producer Eric G, who turns in a funked-down beat of his own. Talk to your doctor to find out if it's right for you. He's an artist who didn't "make it in the game," but wasn't crushed by it either. More important, he doesn't seem particularly concerned with stardom. Use as directed, hip-hop.
Record review: Kooley High's Heights
The result is a heartfelt, genuine record that, though occasionally missing the mark, ultimately resonates. As a persistent emcee who has continued to cultivate his craft despite a lack of fame, his contempt for vanity and validation is both understandable and welcome.
But Raleigh emcee Tab-One stands out for the most delightfully novel of rapping reasons: For Kooley High, that reality may be hard to relate to, but if all activism and awareness are intersectional, then Charlie Smarts' work in the fight for a living wage for fast-food workers gives the group's social awareness actual heft. It's a telling tension between the two rappers. Actually, there still seems to be debate within the group as to whether Rapody remains a member, but outside forces have sometimes suggested the guys cannot survive without her.
Skip to main content. It's what now takes their rap challenge to new heights. Smarts picks up the meter: Since Kooley High leading lady Rapsody began her solo crusade as the ace of 9th Wonder's Jamla Records, her involvement with her recotd Raleigh crew has been, at best, spotty. Fod Music Features Record Review: Only time and rhymes will tell.
David Thompson with Heights, a relaxed nine-song EP far removed from the fray of group politics. When the two match wits, as they do with double-time rhyming during "Under the Sun," who needs a third lyrical leg, anyway?
On Sincerely, Tabhe suggests a boom-bap version of those pharmaceutical advertisement disclaimers, as though he's telling rappers:
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