This past Tuesday was all about the return of the Rap God Eminem, but on the very same day a kid from Kansas City, whose dad traveled from Nigeria to achieve that American Dream for himself and his son Wakil, who three years ago relocated to Los Angeles to go for the gold, finally did-- victoriously dropping his debut album "littleGiant:EPic".

From the opening track "Sadly Mistaken", Chief Wakil sets the tone for the experience: "For those who said I would never make it/ well I came a long way but I'm glad that you hated/nah you ain't a hater just innovative/ was just your little way of giving me motivation." He positions himself as part of the underdog generation, the "little giants united" he says, and speaks to them with a rhyme style, inflection and production quality that is clearly influenced by Kanye West-- the College Dropout version of Kanye. Wakil talks openly about this obviousness on the album, while effectively living up to that comparison in both writing and execution which makes this particular new music discovery exciting as FUCK.