[Album] ellis- “be gone”
Meet ellis. The Port Credit, Mississauga born rapper/singer/producer who's taking Toronto's music scene by storm. With the release of his debut EP "be gone", ellis works to solidify his vision and work towards his future goals of collaborating with some of his favorite musicians, and developing himself as an artist.
"be gone" carries 5 tracks solely produced by himself, and starts off with "soul etc.". As the intro to the EP, ellis wastes no time introducing the listener to his production, rap, and singing talents. His confident rhymes transition to an R&B inspired hook that demonstrates ellis' ability to create a melody a step above the rest. "we got you", a production that was created when inspiration struck ellis at a bar, follows up the intro with a digitally inspired production with an 8-bit feel that begs to be slayed with his lyrics, as it does. Before long the listener gets a taste of his melody driven hook before he jumps back into the beat at full force. As the track closes out, the production takes center stage for a well made conclusion. "5 star chances, 6 figure glances" starts out with some easy rhymes to get things started, before the gentle flute based production takes more prominence. The R&B focused hook has ellis showcasing his singing, with some female vocals to compliment the contrast. One of ellis' strengths is his ability to seamlessly transition his rhymes from hip-hop to R&B, and vice versa, which he seems to do effortlessly throughout the track. As one of the most meaningful songs on the EP, "something i missed" captures a story of when ellis stepped out of his comfort zone physically and emotionally in a way he had not experienced before. A love story gone awry gave birth to this track, with the emotionally infused lyrics and double featured hook to represent a female, and male perspective on the situation. The intro and outro of the song sports samples from "Good Will Hunting" to add even more to his emotional ballad. The final track on the EP is titled "getting to it", and boasts ellis' fine rhyming skills infused with his ability to make a catchy hook. The balance between pure production and vocals is on point, and serves as an appropriate closing for "be gone"."real dreams don't disintegrate" - ellis - soul etc.
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The big homie Ellis dropped Ice Cold, an upbeat single off his upcoming Education of Ellis (E.O.E for short). Inspired by the motion picture The Education of Sonny Carson, E.O.E is due out this summer, no firm date as of yet though. To tide the fans over, the Legin produced track Ice Cold is down below, along with a download link. Bmore stand up!
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Shortly after the release of his last video 
Gearing up for his summer album release E.O.E. (Education of Ellis), Ellis has dropped another bomb video, this time for his tune Confess off his last album, "Blueray E. LP". The Baltimore emcee drops great verses as I've come to expect since listening to his LP some time ago. Shouts out to Ellis for sending the video in personally & doing his thing in the game, real recognize real. Anyways the TONI Branson directed video is down below, also check out 
First I heard of Baltimore native, Ellis was his track