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It’s an all too familiar story, a hungry, talented emcee rises through the ranks of the underground only to lose their luster. Some call it selling out, some call it becoming complacent, but it happens to almost every successful emcee. This process is not only painful for fans to witness, but is also give up and coming emcees a special brand of frustration. Seeing the people they once looked up to reduced to such mediocrity can bed maddening for a young emcee, yet it can also provide them with the needed confidence to claim the spot they wanted all along.

With "Chains", that’s exactly what Mic Torrance does, the hook says it all. “The paper got you brainwashed/ You sold your soul for a little more and a fast car/ What happened to the passion? You got a little cash now you lost all your magic/”

Torrance uses his signature, melodic, indie blues inspired flow to paint a reality for rappers eager to sign faulty paperwork. “They take 80 percent of you/ The money that you make ain’t even yours, now/ Yea, they robbed you blind, left you out to die, now you wonder why/”

Taylor Bennet gives an especially impressive feature on the spaced out, genre fusing audial middle finger to the machine that is the music industry and our one time heroes who “lost all their magic”.

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