True Lyrical Genius

It surely is music from his good eye, the solo album from the Poet/MC Tumi from the band The Volume. Tumi has been in the game long enough to b hailed as a legendary Genius.

This 12 tracks album has displayed the skillz that this brother possesses to the outermost level. This album may as well have been titled Music from the good South. True genius is what this brother displays on this album. Word is that this brother is makin' a lot of waves in the distant countries, it's funny, really funny.

Of course we will still have the same scenario in years to come. It is said that a prophet is hated most in his own land.The title track music from my good eye starts up the Tumi rollercoaster on a high note. It’s a laid back jazzy track that gives Tumi the perfect podium for his delivery, because this cat hails from live performances.

Tumi hooks up with K.G of Morafe on the track Bophelo bame that may as well b the freshest track on the album. These dudes managed to fuse impeccable English rhymes with a Setswana hook. Now if everybody would just learn from this track our music will cross borders faster than the Zims hit ours.

He hooks up with the inconspicuous Ngwenya on the track The now rich. The last time I heard from this brother was on the Expressions Mixtape. Tumi says, “Black, gifted, young perverted and high, the now rich wanna purchase the sky,” as he laments about the ills that come with being rich and getting lost in ur riches.

Maria a ballad to our sisters on the street corners, in the kitchens in the churches puts an edge to the album with its catchy hook. I came home sees Tumi work with BLK Sonshine. On the track he deals with the issues that affect Africans as a whole, black on black hatred, injustice, segregation.Other tracks to look 4 are What they want and the Blink twice featuring Zaki Ibrahim. The appearance of Arno Castern may have been a marketing strategy to white Mzantsi but the track is somewhat disappointing.

He features another white boy R.J Benjamin on the track This is not love but that too failed to be at the standard of his other tracks. He should think twice b4 workin with another white boy.

This is an album that has a lot of punch, and it is hard to find an album that carries its own weight, but Tumi has managed just that. The brother with weight transferred his weight to his music. Now that’s how u make music. Cat – guy Mzantsi – South Africa