Silas Price - A Kid From The 5
SILAS PRICE RELEASES INTOXICATING ‘A KID FROM THE 5’
Silas Price, aka The Kid, just dropped a new 12-track album, entitled A Kid From The 5, which mirrors Price’s recent journey through four years of college.
Silas Price | Photo: Ca'Ron Watkins
As the rapper says, A Kid From The 5 outlines, “High fun moments, beautiful women, trips, and cash inflow, while also struggling to experience love, handling finances of debt and bills piling up, and long-term friendships decaying.”
Explaining further, Price adds, “Setting out in the world with grand ambitions to create a better path, one would think life would get easier with a college degree. That was far from the truth.”
When Silas Price decided to go to college, he did so to circumvent the hurdles life puts in our way. Yet after graduation, he found himself bumping into the complications he wanted to escape, things like house robberies, heartache, and infidelity. On the other hand, good things happened too: his music went viral, he established a kick-ass brand, and started making oodles of money.
Graduation brought another life-changing decision: dump his dream of making music and get a real job or risk it all in pursuit of his goal. The latter would mean investing his life savings in what some people described as cloud-cuckoo-land, preceding their remarks with the following question:
“You went to college for four years just to become a rapper?”
“Ona Rise” features the talents of Yvng Samurai, and rides a tasty skiffing cadence rife tight, low flows and resonant vocals exuding glossy tones.
In the end, Price opted to go for it because, fifty years from now, when he looked back at his life, he wanted to say he had the guts to give it a shot. Factoring into his decision was the reason he went to college. According to Price, “I did it to learn all the avenues of the industry and business. I wanted to limit external barriers to money and growth, and ultimately success. Basically, I didn’t want some shithead to cheat me out of anything or be on that bullshit!”
It was a good decision because since then he’s shared the stage with Kevin Gates and Skizzy Mars, while amassing 100k streams. Of course, as Price divulges, “I done came up, now I have to hold it down.”
With A Kid From The 5, he’s holding it down.
Highlights on the album include “How You Like Me Now,” a slow, low, and bangin’ track juxtaposing a muscular trap beat with luminous, swirling synths. “Gutters in The Trap” is another low-slung tune, featuring a cool pulsating rhythm, creamy and smooth, topped by Price’s cashmere flow, infusing the lyrics with tantalizing timbres.
“Old Days,” featuring Frank Vanegas and Obywan Music, delivers coruscating, oscillating synths atop a Jovian thumping rhythm, as velvety-textured harmonies give the lyrics delicious R&B flavors. “Ona Rise” features the talents of Yvng Samurai, and rides a tasty skiffing cadence rife tight, low flows and resonant vocals exuding glossy tones.
Candidly, there’s not a subpar track on A Kid From The 5, an album bringing smoldering heat and chill soundscapes with beaucoup superb flow from Silas Price.
