Gang Starr - Mostly Tha Voice

Miles Davis\u2019s voice after he got surgery on his vocal cords and was warned to not scream until they healed, but screamed anyways, was timid and hesitant with a detached southern drawl concealed by nonchalance and petulance. He sounded sharp and reticent until his gutted and gated chords turned that slight shrill into shred and seethe. He began to sound like someone coming back from the dead and he came back over and over, crow black, anti-social and the life of the party, he returns still with that same insistent whisper. It\u2019s as if he played hushed and muted tones on the trumpet so well, for so long, that a divine will conspired to inflect his speech with that same agonized restraint. On the trumpet it\u2019s erotic and seductive, on the voice it\u2019s weathered and grotesque but because he\u2019s Miles and carries himself like the most successful bourgeois gangster on earth, the seductiveness prevails. He sounds dangerous and invaded with orders from some angel-demon. His is a speech pattern that makes you want different things out of speaking and lean toward them without knowing why, without even realizing you\u2019re leaning into a sound you intended to denounce. Miles is proof that aura precedes voice, and that tone is about the way someone moves and carries himself first, and what they emit beyond that lucid withholding second.

Gang Starr - Mostly Tha Voice

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