By Odeisel

In the new millennium, we’ve seen conformity become commonplace. Unfortunately we’ve also seen cats trying to be different become commonplace. Everyone is all so different but somehow they managed to all be different the same way, with tight jeans, thick glasses and all kinds of other mechanisms in an attempt not to be “cool.” The result is conformity by mass rebellion with no one actually standing out.

Well the Readnex Poetry Squad (presumably pronounced “red necks”) might actually be on some different shit. The motley crew of performers, from various backgrounds, has released a call to arms for people to respect their own individuality and value their own personal style with “Be Dif’Rent.”

The synth-heavy construction would almost lead you to think the crew was going along with the radio, pop-friendly sentiment echoed in recent albums from Wiz Khalifa, Lupe Fiasco and Nicki Minaj. That’s not the case, as this crew is hard-rhyming over every part of the beat. A steady boom-clap rhythm bolsters the synth.

The crew has a bunch of flows that they deliver at varying speeds, which totally cover for the monotony of the beat. Slow and steady to frenzied, they mix and match different rhyme schemes throughout. One thing you cannot say about Readnex is that they are lazy behind the emic.

The Readnex Poetry Squad don’t sound that revolutionary, and their push for people to be different has been done before. They really aren’t that different on this one. But you have to support anyone that supports people believing in themselves and not following. As long as it’s natural, it’s cool to “Be Dif’Rent.” Unless cool is out. Then I don’t know.

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