Avatar Young Blaze – A Day In the Life

Posted by Todd Hamm

Avatar Young Blaze

Is your rap collection too soft? Do you need more guns, drugs and illicit money getting out of your friendly neighborhood MC? Enter Seattle's (Ukraine's/Russia's) Avatar Young Blaze. He is a bad man. His lyrics are sinister, and they're delivered eerily calm through clouds of blunt smoke from luxury sedans and building rooftops. He's good at what he does, and although his subject matter usually slinks through the gutters and back alleys of his environment, there's something captivating and even familiar about the guy. With each venomous song or video clip he releases, Avatar welcomes you to the fold and guides you through his daily experiences, teaches you hard lessons he's learned and explains why things have wound up the way they have. For example:

This is "A Day In the Life", a mini-documentary that was releases today about the MC's life and influences, which basically finds him smoking a ton of weed and looking his most menacing in a winter-time L.A. hideout. He touches on topics like his upbringing, and his parent's flight to the U.S. to escape the crumbling U.S.S.R., as well as his flight to California to escape Seattle's notoriously rainy winters, and also why he's such a badass. In addition, he previews a couple of tracks from his new Baptized In Vodka project (release date TBA), which is a nice lil' bonus for fans.

Released simultaneously with the video was the first single from BIV called "I Am King", a song that captures Avatar's style at it's best: hardcore and brash, but honest. The production is clean and laid back--tropical even, and features smooth background vocals, which is somewhat of a departure for Av. Although it has a bit of a new and distant feel to it, the song sounds natural, as he tells it like it is in traditional Avatar Young Blaze fashion.

Avatar Young Blaze - I Am King