Based out of Brampton, Canada underground heavyweight Sheldon Sabastian is finally back with another multi-track project, Vista 2001. The EP holds three tracks within, All I Want, How Do You Feel, and Cherry Tree. All three tracks have a variety of vibes and lyrical versatility is shown in abundance across the tape.
Produced by The Chune Maker, the duo come back for yet another tracklist of hits. If anyone can ride an 808, no one can as smoothly as Sabastian. Check out what we think about the Ontario rapper’s new project, below!
ALL I WANT
“All I Want is money
All I wanna do is rap until they love me.”
All I Want is Sabastian and Chune’s first track on Vista 2001. On the track, Sabastian gets in his bag, boasting of writing his own lyrics, how people have been attributing his sound to pop lately, friends switching up, how he’s made it to where he is on his own, as opposed to his peers, and how his life is finally looking up, now that he’s seeing steady growth in his career.
Sabastian’s vocals are laid over a dusky and dark 808 and underneath lays titillating hi-hats that keep you engaged and enraptured, a strong opener for the project.
HOW DO YOU FEEL
“How do you feel
When I get I promise to keep it I’ll never be still”
How Do You Feel carries the same vibe as All I Want above, however, tone and the vibe seems to have shifted. On the track Sabastian seems to be chasing and admiring a female who’s caught his eye. Whilst keeping a steady boast of his possessions and his immeasurable confidence, he finds himself starstruck and infatuated with his enigmatic lover.
With a smooth-hitting beat with a hint of playful twinkling production in the background, and swelled, beautiful vocals rolling the musical hills the 808 provides, Sabastian hits back to back with another hit.
CHERRY TREE
“Divine interervention be the make of it
It’s too real when I make a hit
I swear therapy is like the greatest sh*t”
Cherry Tree is the last track of the EP and takes Sabastian to a reminiscent and introspective place. The rapper looks back on his time starting in the music industry and how he’s dealt with the consistent hate and belittlement of his dream by naysayers. This is arguably Sabastian’s most lyrical driven track, as he stated even his own doubts for his craft at first, and even trying to run away from it at one point, before realizing that this was what he was meant to do.
The production on this track is minimal in order to bolster the weight of Sabastian’s words, and it does an exemplary job, with warped vocals in the background and a beautiful key progression, Sabastian ends this track on a sobering, yet uplifting note.
Stream Vista 2001 on Sabastian’s Soundcloud below and all other streaming platforms!
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