♫♪  Soopah Eype - Soop Urko

Urko, as the Planet of the Apes Wiki explains, was the main antagonist of the Planet of the Apes TV show. “He had encountered astronauts before … and killed them immediately,” as you do.

And it occurs to me now that a hyper-evolved hominoid warrior quickly disposing of random spacemen on GP is as good a metaphor as any to describe the music of Soopah Eype, whose Better Off Dread album quietly remains one of the best releases of the year. Here, on Soop Urko, with only five tracks (three of which run under 2:00), the Portland-based MC again presents himself as that guy who steps into the cypher from out of nowhere, spits some of the craziest shit you’ve ever heard in your life, and then leaves.

• Sooopah Eype: http://soopaheype.bandcamp.com

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