Fort Collins Rapper RJ Hutch: Top 5 Must Listen to Songs
By: Briar Erskine
Growing up in Fort Collins RJ Hutch has been involved in music for the majority of his life. Beginning his musical career by playing the violin as a kid, RJ Hutch later transitioned to rapping around the time he entered high school. As a former football, basketball, and baseball athlete many of his rhymes originate from the sports that he loves playing and watching. RJ Hutch has a wide verity of music from slow songs that will get you in your feelings to songs that will pump you up and make you feel good. These top 5 songs by RJ Hutch are sure to satisfy your musical craving no matter the mood.
Released in 2018, this was RJ Hutch’s first official song created and his first release on SoundCloud and only current release on Apple Music. The song features Lil Rolli a life long friend of RJ-Hutch. When they were in high school at Rocky Mountain in Fort Collins Colorado, they created this song in their parents basement one day and discovered a hidden passion. At the time they didn’t know they would be making RJ-Hutch’s most streamed song.
“Feelin’” demonstrates RJ-Hutch’s ability to rap and to write smooth flowing lyrics. RJ Hutch raps “Police always be catching all the evil, heres some food for thought boy you can feed your people. We are not equal, i’m flyer than a seagull.” Lil Rolli adds a great alternative flow and a few clever bars of his own as he raps “Featured on this track but I ain’t no Scottie Pippin.” The up beat tempo of “Feelin’” makes this a great song to listen to at any time to put you in a good mood.
2. Right Now:
Released in 2019, and one of RJ Hutch’s most popular singles, “Right Now” was the first and currently the most played song on his second album with 2,236 streams. The song “Right Now” is about chasing after a beautiful girl. In the chorus he sings “This is real and no flop, you make a man stop you walk into the room and all the jaws drop. Baby girl you want to take a trip and go travel my world, just take a sip then you twirl dancing all night and she shines like a light in in my world.” “Right Now’s” laid back relaxed beat mixed with the smooth flow reminds you of a time when you were chasing that special person. The way RJ Hutch flows on the beat has Mac Miller vibes.
Released in 2019, “Used to Play Outside” is all about reminiscing about the good times from growing up. It is easy to take your childhood for granted. When you’re growing up spending time with friends playing sports and learning life lessons from your parents you don’t realize how quickly life goes by. “Used to Play Outside” is the type of song that will make you want to bob your head and tap your foot to the groovy beat. The basketball related bars in this song are sure to catch any basketball fans attention as RJ Hutch rhymes “Gotta see… What you can accomplish, people will bring you down and all that stuff is obnoxious, but I never let it get to my consious. Ima stay ballin’ call it Luka Doncic.” As a basketball fan himself, RJ Hutch uses unique NBA related bars in this song and in many of his other songs.
4. Of You (feat. Toes & Maya):
Released in 2019, “Of You” features Toes and Maya, two high school friends of RJ Hutch. “Of You” is about falling for someone and that feeling when you’re trying to find out if the feelings you have are mutual. From the intro of the song Maya beautifully harmonizes the chours with the piano singing “I’ve been feeling on you, been dreaming of you, I hope you feel it too, I hope you do.” The song reminds you of what its like to fall head over heals for someone. In the first verse RJ Hutch raps, “She like to show love, got me actin’ so dumb, she got me so numb, she got me in my feelins like shes my dope got me high as the cieling.” As one of RJ Hutch’s slower songs “Of You” demonstrates the versatility of his flow on slower tempo songs.
Released in 2019, at it’s core “BROADVIEW PLACE” is a feel good song. The upbeat tempo and cheeky rhymes will have you listening to this song anytime you want to get pumped up. “BROADVIEW PLACE” is full of NBA related lyrics such as, “Me and this beat make a real good combo just like Paul Pierce and Rajon Rando. 3-4 on the back you know i’m the truth, spittin’ so hard that I just lost a tooth.” This song is a great example of the clever lyrics RJ Hutch comes up with while having fun perfecting his craft.
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