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April 19, 2017
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Music To Feed Your Hip-Hop Craving
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Portland’s
Swiggle
Mandel’s new
mix tape
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by f elicia s lider
t he p ortland o bserver
Like wet is to water, Swiggle
Mandela lyrics are liquid. Like fat
meat is to greasy food, the Port-
land hip hop artist’s new mixtape
is phat. If you’re looking for some
music to feed your hip-hop crav-
ing, then hunger no more.
Titled “The Master Peace’s,”
the CD will feed your hip hop
hunger. Mandela’s poetic prose
is mentally mind-blowing as he
gives respect to the past, present
and future of hip-hop. Many of the
tracks give reference to Portland,
like the popular black-owned food
cart “Stoopid Burger,” Jefferson
High School and a piece on the
legality of marijuana in the city
called “Portlandsterdam”
His verbal penmanship give a
poetic signature that no other artist
can counterfeit.
“This is my sequel. I rap for the
people. I rap for all artists. I rap
for hip hop and music culture that
also produces and makes music. I
rap to motivate the masses,” Man-
dela says. “I’m half black and half
Filipino, often imitated, never du-
plicated.”
I sat down, shared and lounged
with the lyrical linguistic during
his recent mixtape release show at
the Clinton Street Theatre and his
X-Ray TV launch.
Each track of “The Master
Peace’s” is beyond extraordi-
nary. Like a summa cum laude
Portland hip hop music artist Swiggle Mandela releases a new mix-
tape “The Master Peace’s,” a melodic master piece.
student, Mandela’s swag is root-
ed in an academic musical record
of flawless flows. Each track is an
essay of entertainment, but also,
edutainment. What Swiggle does
dutifully is that he wants his fans
to think deep, digging into their
mental dungeons, but also party,
politic and parlay with the peo-
ple.
One of the many tracks that
fans will love is “Stoopid Burger”
a rap about Portland’s uber fa-
mous black owned, delicious and
nutritious food cart. The piece is
not just about the food, but the day
to day flow of life experiences that
people can relax, rejuvenate and
relate to.
For those of you that are prefer
to find your music swag on social
media, he has released some ex-
clusive songs to flex our mental
musical rolodex. Mandela’s is a
mack when it comes to publicity.
He’s a social media sovereign.
From Band Camp to Reverb Na-
tion, he knows how to market his
rhymes to the masses. You can
get a peep at his popularity via the
virtuosity of viral videos on You
Tube.
Like Chance The Rapper, Ace
Dough, Cool Nutz, Vurstayl, Mike
Capes and an infinite list of locals
and artist near and far, Mandela
breaks away from the borders of
corporate labels. Not because the
labels aren’t lining up, but because
social media is a no limits land-
scape of the unlimited where the
artists have the power to put them-
selves on if done the right way.
You can follow Swiggle Man-
dela at Soundcloud.com/swiggle-
mandela.