If you ain’t H.O.M.E., you’re homeless. The internet has supplied us with a constant stream of new artists for years. It has given burgeoning MCs a place near side of estabilished acts as a most significant advancement within music, the lines between eminence and priority being blurred and especially over the last three years, a lot of young, talented and independent rappers have emerged from The States and with them an endless amount of proficient producers. If they’re already offering such high quality output at such a young age, the future looks even brighter. The Washington Heights-born, Harlem-raised and Atlanta-based Perry Rodriguez is one of these promising new artists: having mastered both the quality of rapping and production to an aloft level and with three solid mixtapes under his belt as Perrion, calling the wordsmith a novitiate hardly does him any justice. However, it’s fair to say that we will undoubtedly hear more from him over the next few months, if not for his direct associates A$AP and Raider Klan breaking through but the young artisan has got enough musical tricks up his sleeve to wake up everyone out there, and with him the rest of his crew H.O.M.E. – High Of Music Entertainment – which consists of his brother Microphone Preview as well as a handful of other young producers and rappers (download the latest mixtape by fellow H.O.M.E. member S’natra here).

Direct link: Perrion – Menstrual Mouth (Le Bourgeon)

Direct link: Perrion – Seamless (Le Bourgeon)

The twenty-one years old bears a resemblance to B.I.G., Curren$y and Pharrell in parts: the greater number of his beats sound quite soothing with the odd exception, something that can be said for his general flow too because although he holds on to an old school/semi-weed rap vibe in a lot of his verses, Perrion jumps in with a frenzied unexpected assault here and there. Through the course of his first three tapes you’ll hear a handful of different Perrions, but this disjuncture of his ‘one sound’ is something vivifying as it doesn’t sound different in a discomposed, chasing after his true self kind of way – it’s more of a playful approach and makes his tracks sound (self) innovative if anything. His latest mixtape named “Circuit Breaker” was released last November and has the rapper simply going off over eleven of his favourite electronic instrumentals produced by Lone, Washed Out, Onra and MF Doom among others. Written in only two days with another added two days to record the tracks and mix them down, the entity holds a remarkably good flow and a soulful, funky atmosphere. “Circuit Breaker” sounds strangely familiar yet futuristic at the same time with its ‘modern’ instrumentals coupled with yesteryear vocals. For a taste of productions from the man himself, his Inception-inspired mixtape, “Perception”, is mainly self-produced and holds a greater variety of tracks compared to the chillwave vibe that runs through his latest one – he goes from more mellow beats to semi-trap tracks and back. Apart from producing for himself, Perrion has also been on the buttons for others within the H.O.M.E. and A$AP crew – not many of these beats have surfaced yet but the production for “Meagan Good” (A$AP) is an interesting one.

Stream: Perrion – Fire Ant (Prod. by Bibio) (Circuit Breaker)

Stream: A$AP Ferg ft. A$AP Rocky – Meagan Good (“Asap Dee Ferg is going crazy over Meagan Good as a obsessed lover, shoots himself, goes to hell, hates it there and wants to come back to earth.”)

In the second half of February, Perrion will be dropping his fourth tape named “From Paris With Love”, described by himself as ‘Le Burgeon on steroids’. All tracks on it will be produced by the French beatmaker Myth Syzer. You can listen to the first teaser of the mixtape here, featuring Young Money delegate Jae Millz (rumored to drop an album on Lil Wayne’s label later this year) – the track holds two strong verses by both, and vibes off that older Roc-A-Fella tip. The tape will be featuring guest appearances by more members of the H.O.M.E. crew as well as Spaceghostpurpp. Hopefully “From Paris With Love” will wake up more people to pay attention to what Perrion’s doing. Until it does, and they do, enjoy his older work.

Mixtape: Perrion – Circuit Breaker (November, 2011)
Mixtape: Perrion – Le Bourgeon (July, 2011)
Mixtape: Perrion – Perception (October, 2010)