Album Review: Sadistik, Flowers For My Father  I’ll admit it. I
couldn’t quite take Sadistik seriously at first. With a name
that sounds like a bad Linkin Park knockoff, and an album cover
like something out of mid-2000’s Evanescence, I was skeptical.
But once I moved past my skepticism and actually listened to his
album Flowers for My Father I was impressed with Sadistik’s
emotive style of rapping.  Sadistik is an alternative rapper in
the vein of rappers like Atmosphere, Grieves and Cage, a unique
tradition in many ways apart from the rest of hip hop. This
isn’t a run of the mill hip hop album, and that is both a good
thing, and a bad one.  Sadistik is clearly influenced by his
forebearers and his rapping style and content reflect that. He
goes for the same mix of rap and spoken work as others such as
Macklemore, and lacks tight rhythmic flow often that is
characteristic of many other rappers. While many will likely use
this as a critique of Sadistik and his peers, I believe it is
simply a matter of stylist