The beat is great, his flow is good, but even without the contact lenses he still just seems ... cheesy and I can't shake that feeling.
it's definitely cheesy, but I can do cheesy - I had a huge nerdcore-stint in highschool that I look back on fondly. It's his preachiness that gets me. And his backpacker fanbase. "Hopsin is the only one that does real hiphop, not hiphop about money and drugs and women!" But this was cheesy, while also being introspective and not shoving his values down my throat. Like Ill Hopsin 5...gah, never again.
I hadn't heard of Hopsin before at all and I liked this. Clearly cheesy as hell and trying to get more attention from being hammy, but it seemed authentic, like an actual introspective conversation he had with himself. So I'm glad I saw your comment at least to know not to look into him further hahaha
For what its worth, I disagree with eightbit. If you liked this song, I think his album Raw is worth looking into. He is phenomenally talented and I always look for what he's doing. Unfortunately, he slipped into fundamentalist Christianity two years ago and started to lose his musical focus. But if this song is any indication, he's back for real now!
Me too, I had never heard anything from him. I dig this though and I agree that it seems genuine.