OG Maco is a really interesting, rising star in the rap scene. His music video "U Guessed It" garnered 21 million plays on YouTube since it was uploaded five months ago, and he has been on everyone's mind ever since.
While his style can be pinned down as aggressive staccato rapping, OG Maco keeps us guessing. His Breathe EP is surprisingly well-spoken and intelligent, as the young ATLien raps about the recent string of police injustice that saw the lives of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Michael Brown taken without a real cause.
He's also linked up with the likes of Audio Push and Rome Fortune, with whom he released a nicely packaged, 9-song project with earlier this month.
It's easy to peg OG Maco as another angry, ignorant rapper after listening to the wild "U Guessed It," but he's showing more shades of gray with each released. From the aggressive single to the more conscious "Get Down" (which was produced by Chuck Inglish), let's get acquainted with OG Maco.
OG Maco - U Guessed It
The most essential song from OG Maco is an eerie, aggressive and, above all, unique one. The beat is minimal as can be, the music video is crazy and it all adds up to 21 million+ views on YouTube, laying the foundation for a rap takeover.
OG Maco - How We Planned It (feat. Skippa Da Flippa)
Taking his aggressive style over another piano-driven instrumental, OG Maco dropped this one via World Star on New Years Eve 2014.
OG Maco - Love In The City
The city of Atlanta has been producing some crazy rap over the past few years. Definitely a hub for the 'trap' style, OG Maco progresses the art form with his tracks.
OG Maco - Gang
Taken from his project with Cardo, "Gang" has OG Maco going in on a different styling of trap production.
Migos - FUCKEMx3 (featuring OG Maco)
Migos invites OG Maco on the track to see who gives less f***s. Who do you think won?
OG Maco - Get Down
OG Maco gets real hip-hop on this one, spitting some real rhymes about the legal state of marijuana and Eric Garner, and even gets down with some spoken word poetry. This is as intelligent as he's been on record, so listen carefully.
Also, the rest of the Breathe EP is pretty dope as well!
Audio Push - Heavy (featuring OG Maco)
Our young'n links up with Audio Push on "Heavy." The collab works really well!
Rome Fortune - Four Seasons (featuring OG Maco)
Taking the mood from violent to more ambient, "Four Seasons" sees the two ATLiens linking up for a dope collaboration. The music video is full of fresh flavor too.
OG Maco & Rome Fortune - Yep
"Four Seasons" must have worked out so well that the two linked up to do a full 9-song EP that just dropped on January 6th.
OG Maco - Night Like This
Finally we give you OG Maco's most ambient effort to date, "Night Like This." Uploaded to his SoundCloud account a month ago, it's about as far away from "U Guessed It" as we've seen Maco get. He's expanding on his style and continuously putting out new music. It'll be interesting to see where he goes from here.
