Someone like BLOODCAT needs it to be just about the music. The image behind it can be a blur, an enigma. Any image you see of this artist doesn’t show their face, and that’s their capacity as an artist. Let’s talk about the music, like they would want us to. This is their album, catcall$ 4 (director’s cut).

You need to see their growth as a prolific rapper in this year alone. BLOODCAT has released a constant barrage of albums this year, this being a director’s cut version after the deluxe. Their music has always encouraged thought and dialogue, and they don’t shy away from ideas. The first single is charcuterie, laying bars over a distorted synth sound. This is a proper club track, but pay attention to the lyrics, and you’ll know what they’re talking about. This selection of meats on the boards are deep cuts from their own life, experiences and how they’ve dealt with them. The groove is deep and executed with confidence.

In reason and rhyme

The vocals are on highlight with picture purrfect. The brilliance is the back and forth between the vocals and the hip-hop bars. The minimal instrumentals showcase the verses, creating the dissonant reality between the chorus and how it organically builds. As you’re amplified to this moment, vip creates the pedestal on which BLOODCAT has been placed. It deals with the importance and dialogue of being in the spotlight, and the oddities surrounding it, with resolve and finesse.

A song like bonsai helps break from the mould as this artist would be placed. It has a reverberating soul to it, the rhyme scheme and attack is different. Though BLOODCAT is adept at navigating pathways of any hip-hop style, their lines are straight and edgy. With this song, they get comfortable and fold with the groove. Bankzy is quicker, working on the dynamism of the background, and the bank they make. There’s a reason raps like this are constantly featured on playlists, this rapper wants only their rap to speak the volumes they need. Two-step pussy brings a different rhythm section to a trap dream. It has an electrifying energy to it, something that you’d like to vibe to. The premise is zealous and exciting, teaching the sound to form around the artist as well.

Titrate to the tune

Funnel cake has a choir soul to it, in more ways than one. The core is modulating, but tears a hole in the expected aural tone. The verses bite into experiences one by one, and draws parallels that teach from it. In some ways, it is Lamar’s approach to how he raps, everything threaded to the attachment in the tangible world. Starface and 7up use some cool rhythm formed through BLOODCAT and their recording style. The use of pauses and changes in rhyme schemes make this song organic and original, never receding to the plainness of mediocrity.

The songs in this cut are perfect for BLOODCAT’s own biography, a film that would be peppered with interesting and exciting happenings. It is something I’d love to see, even though parallels can be drawn from Creed & Champs. 

You can follow this artist for a steady stream of music on Spotify. Demon Slayer! and picture purrfect remain favourites, though you should listen for the story. Listen to their music and be sure to follow for more!