DECEMBER 2009 ONLINE EDITORIALS

Doctor Oscify – Breathe Easy Soon

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By Erik Myers

With a title like Breathe Easy Soon¸ one could assume that Denver hip-hop artist Doctor Oscify might be ready to settle down and take a breather.
The rapper (who recently made the decision to rap under his real name, Leo Fairbanks) told Colorado Music Buzz last summer that the album was a “farewell to the lenses through which I used to view life.” Oscify certainly hasn’t been taking it easy, considering he’s dropped an album a year since 2005, not including 2006’s Versify in which Oscify shared the mic with Ulliversal. Breathe Easy Soon marks his sixth solo release. Whether intended or not, the album doesn’t quite reveal the change in the rapper’s perspective. If anything, he seems hungrier then ever.
Oscify works his words with an unyielding enunciation, his spirited outpour never lost under the cymbal hits. His yearning for the future is the up-and-front theme of the album, whether that be a better tomorrow for him (“Act Accordingly”) or the next generation (“World Without Hate”).
The lyricism, however, is erratic. There are a number of clever points in his party anthem “Lifted,” including a grinning admittance to his tendency to steal girlfriends at the cost of contacts. But Oscify often strains to make rhymes work: “My pivotal minute has yet to be visited, busy getting listeners interested in the records I’m giving ‘em. And it’s a life or death matter, cause I don’t have any job skills that I can fall back on.”
Sounds like the breather will have to wait.
www.myspace.com/oscify