Album Review: Ghettosocks’ “Treat of the Day”

By Chelsea Schinker

Have you heard Canada's phattest new underground hip hop artist, Ghettosocks? Have you heard Ghettosock's latest album, Treat of the Day? An ECMA winning hip hop producer and MC, Grand Wizard Ghettosocks has been making a name for himself sense 2006, his old school beats and rhymes-for-treats that will satisfy even the pickiest hip-hop listener.

Influenced by early 90's rap and hip hop, we should make Ghettosocks required listening for any fan of “Golden Age” hip hop OR Canadian MCs. His razor sharp, monotone flow and his mastery of witty one-liners with top notch head-bobbing allows this Nova-Scotia native to serve up the finest in old school samples.

he tasty 2011 Treat Of The Day is no different. Representing the label Droppin Science, this album's quality comes hard and fast at the album's start as the cartoon-esque beat and the quirky, Too Short-sounding chorus sample on “Onlyindamornin'” creates the prefect kind of opening for an original album full of turns and surprises.

Though I had never heard of Ghettosocks before this record, I'm a real fan nowadays. This record is just awesome, thanks in no small part to the fact that it samples from some of my favorite artists, like KRS1 and (the mentioned) Oakland-city Too Short.