By now, many visitor's, and Artists, will have heard of "Freedom*", even if it has been through curiosity in taking a look at the music videos on YouTube, or visits to Freedom's Official 'SoundCloud Page'. The fact that the 24-year-old Gipton Rapper of Leeds has graced the Internet since 2010, he has brought a somewhat lighter and yet, raw edge to 'Lyrical Verse'.

In this Exclusive 4x4 Review, we bring together both the sound and visual constructs that has brought "Freedom*" out of the shadows and for the first time, but certainly not the last, to project his essence and soul upon one hard-line platform. Reviewed by four 'Reviewers' of "The Dark Tower", for four times the strength, we bring you "Freedom*"...

The Looking Glass

Taking a jump into a more melodic overture in musical colourisation, the initial viola-piano intro brings together a clash of an almost ‘Hip-Hop’ calibration, while an invoked bassline brings the course lyrics to life with a crescendo of rhyming storytelling from ‘Freedom*’. Certainly a piece of work that has what would be otherwise called ‘Hardcore’, the track contains the spirited sense of ‘Related Conduct’, but adds its powerful message by chorus: Take A Look, Thru The Looking Glass Of Life… And certainly, by the structuring this work needs not explain the foundations, the build or the ending quotes which we are sure many people can relate to, whether in normal living standards, or through a more tainted pathway journey.

The Looking Glass has become something of a regular listening example of today’s most thirsty listeners of Rap – even hardcore dope sounds – where, for a long time the holding back of such styles and deliberations have subsequently failed to reach out and touch those points of contact in the listener’s ears. Where these previous tracks have failed to trigger the taste for more, it is with The Looking Glass we get a smooth mix of various freestyles, starting from the intro, through the melodic, almost trance-like backing sound, to the determined lyrical masterpiece that comes down onto a plateau of absolute awesome junctures and framework from ‘Freedom*’ himself.

Reviewed By Wendy Knight (The Dark Tower/THP)