The Ones: Rylo Rodriguez’s “Rolls Royce”
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Rylo Rodriguez - “Rolls Royce”
Normally, Mobile, Ala.’s Rylo Rodriguez can be found crooning over acoustic guitars that belong on a Hootie and the Blowfish album. On “Rolls Royce,” he opts to instead take us to church, delivering his mush-mouthed, sing-rap vocals on a soft piano and vocal sample that sounds ripped from a choir. But still, true to the current wave of Deep South vocalists, Rylo sings in detail about the pain of the life he’s lived. “Rolls Royce” is much different tonally though, driven by a sense of thankfulness for his recent success, given that most of his close friends are either in jail or have been lost to violence in his neighborhood: “They kill my dog, I ain’t want to believe he wasn’t bulletproof.”
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Originally Appeared on Pitchfork
