MC Overlord - The Lyracist is an example of both early Austin rap and early St. Louis rap. The EP was released on cassette in 1990 independently. There are only 2 songs on this EP with The Lyracist being one of them.
Now this EP is one of Overlord’s very first EP of which very few people outside St. Louis, Missouri and Austin, Texas know about. Not many people know Overlord had anything out before Play To Win. The Lyracist EP is more rarer than his 1991 album Play To Win. Not that many copies of his debut EP were pressed up making this EP a collectors item of such.
Now The Lyracist album was supposed to be spelled as “The Lyricist”. However the printing company made a spelling error. Overlord took humor in this mistake by calling the word garbage. MC Overlord stated, “And the misspelled word on this cover makes this immediate garbage. Ha!” Clearly Overlord did not take this mistake personally but saw the mistake from a humorous aspect.
On this EP, MC Overlord utilizes more East Coast rap sound laced with 80s hip hop sounds. You can have the loud East Coast rap sound in his vocals whenever he raps. He makes sure you can feel the loudness in his prowess and vocals. Many fans of MC Overlord know that he uses a cadence when he raps on the mic.
The song The Lyracist is his most memorable song off of this EP. "Respect me/I'm the lyracist" is one of the most memorable lyrics from this song of his. Living Large is the second and last song on the cassette.
I rate this EP 4/5****!!
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