Blog: LocalCut

Luck-One is a lyricist more than he's a rapper. Not to say that the Portland MC can't rap—he certainly can—but his primary objective is to put ideas on the page and get them across to his listener. I think that's an important distinction to make: A rapper likes the way he sounds; A lyricist has something to communicate. In the video, Luck gets up in the morning, starts hustling on his front porch (a message of community building and strength in numbers ousts dope or diamonds in the classic hustle narrative) and keeps hustling throughout the day, [...]