The two MCs and one DJ that make up this Boston-based hip-hop trio don’t reinvent the wheel on their recent EP Low Light Turbulence.  It’s often said that every story ever told is derived from six or seven basic human plots; in the world of hip-hop the number seems to be closer to two or three.  The familiar themes of frustrated ambition, moral temptation, and personal tragedy in the urban landscape are the treadmill of rap.  But if the glove does fit, the artist is legit.  The Scribblenauts successfully glom onto these narratives with their own personal spin, telling honest stories from the perspective of hard-nosed street kids who know they don’t have it the worst, or the best, rather (like most of us), somewhere in between.

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