It is imperative for any rising rapper-songwriter trying to steal their spotlight to show the world who is the true boss; Showtime Ramon, like anyone else, showed up with his newly released record, “Goat Skin.”
The Chinese Zodiac is one of today’s astrological concepts that deeply tackles the individuality of every person while also finding their similarity; thus, it is divided into twelve associated signs, each with an animal corresponding to the general traits and characteristics. Those born in the Year of the Goat are often denoted as diplomatic, as they can become arbiters to opposing parties, showing cases and finding a peace agreement from their pleas. On top of that, they are introspective in nature and contemplative most of the time, allowing them to enjoy their solitude in the comfort of whatever they call home, finding them sitting through all their experiences and emotions.
These general traits have contributed to Showtime Ramon waving his version of telling his stories and its underlying social issues to make it more resonant in terms of its capacity to hit the insides. Such cases that scream relevance in today’s world are something that we need at this point, from the standpoint of someone who believes that art is meant to comfort the disturbed and the disturbed. This artistic sensibility, tied in with his diplomacy, is an excellent trait for an artist to say something to the world.
Since he was born in the Year of the Rooster, a sign known for its bold and confident nature, Showtime Ramon embodies these traits. His music, like his album ‘Goat Skin,’ reflects this boldness and confidence. But what does having the skin of a goat mean to him, then?
It is common knowledge in today’s generation that ‘goat’ can mean, more colloquially, an abbreviation for ‘Greatest Of All Time.’ Perhaps this could be the core of what he is trying to portray, which makes sense, as his lyrical feistiness along those lines happened to be much more wallowing with much strength on the first personal pronoun + his qualities that confidently boast his stance as, indeed, the greatest of all time.
“If we wanted something, we just took it.” Off the hook, he welcomed us into his Capricornian core—pragmatic and persevered. The focal point of their core lies within how badly they want to attain or something, no matter how difficult it would be for such a thing to be within the grasp of their hand—oh, wait, there goes the goat’s presence. This surprisingly attractive Mexican-American rapper-songwriter is a Capricorn, which symbolizes a sea goat—tenacious on most days but ferocious when things need to arrive at such a boil-headed level. While such characteristics tend to gravitate more toward the devoted listeners of the hip-hop and rap industry, his narratives often go beyond, but then, for the sake of the G.O.A.T. status, he can do anything, and I mean, anything, to sit in such a throne.
It is somehow a bit of a visible wandering eye and a raised eyebrow for a hip-hop/rap track to have a chorus with the absence of its lyrics, especially in the opener, “84 Don Marino,” as if this sinister crimson stage is plotting for more blood to shed but there is no host able to use his voice and announce what was being spectated because he, too, was scared of the room turning into red. It was splendidly done, and does a good job of setting its tone.
Machismo also has screamed in megaphones in the shape of his, unprecedentedly, a surprising swag of a flow that potentially allows him to exude such power to flaunt how his presence can make someone kneel on their feet to the extent that he is even boasting about a lady on his town who is giving him head as if there are no faucets in the city to drink water to in “New Jack.” He also had his fair share of tracks where the codas tend to shift towards a lower pitch to never let the listeners be distracted to the point that he wanted to let us know that this record must have a better grasp of a visual that is deemed to be a scary place even to take a visit just for once.
Sometimes, I wonder how consuming all things, even at a maximal point, would be the pinnacle for someone to attain that status. The desire to be admired, respected, and even worshipped by numerous hands, laying their armors down to serve them, has always been their score, but with how many rappers have gone along in the scene and with only one throne to sit in, how can one crawl to reach even just to touch the bottom part of the chair? It is beyond a road to take.
Either way, Showtime Ramon lives up to his name; he shows up, and he makes sure that he is present; he makes sure that he is here.
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About the Author
Jett interestingly seeks every supposed-to-be-life-changing almost: getting a Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education, submitting a finished compilation of epistles and poems to some book publications, and releasing passion projects to audio streaming platforms. However, his inkling of his pen and his reverberating of his music, being the ones that keep him sustained in somehows, never stop him from walking to a road yet to be taken.
