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The mixtape delivers business as usual. Bossed up flows over beats that are made to relax and vibe with. The way this one is placed together it would not be stretch to actually hear some of the tracks on radio airwaves soon. Do your self a favor and download this album.
New Jet City the new mixtape from New Orleans native Curren$y, is a full 14 tracks and has a slue of features Juicy J, Jadakiss, Wiz Khalifia,Lloyd, Styles P, Trinidad James, Trademark, Yung Rody, French Montana and production by cardo, Harry Fruadd, Dj Toomp, Lex Luger, King Thenious, Statik Select, V12, Young Los.
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The video of the week is from New York's own Joey Bada$$, it's called Hardknocks. Very simple video but is a great introduction to Mr.Bada$$ if you are not fimilar. It features another young MC by the name of Cj Fly. What you may not not about the two is that they are young at the time this video came out they were 16 and still in high school. The complextity of the rhymes leave me to believe that he has seen and expirenced more than the average teenager, he's actually smarter than some 30 year olds I know. The song comes off of the Joey Bada$$ mixtape 1999.
With the constant bombardment of mixtapes we see on a monthly basis from artists, it's hard to point out which ones are actually worth talking about. A couple of days after his G.O.O.D. label mate Pusha T released his tape, CyHi gives us his own offering, and it actually prompted me to write a review. To me, CyHi as always been a "tweener" a term used in basketball to describe someone who is able to blend his skills as a 2 or 3. CyHi has the skills to pull of being a part swag- part trap -part introspective rapper. But there is a theme of good vibes (Kickback) and fun times throughout the mixtape, and I believe that's where he shines.
He does have moments of revisiting the traps of Stone Mountain on the lex-luger produced "Far Removed" where he tells us "I had them quarter pounders/ I aint talkin burgers/mid in the freezer/right next to that carton of sherbert". His trademark wordplay and metaphors are evident throughout the mixtape and it doesnt sound forced, not even a little bit.
The highlights of the mixtape however are the breezy, cruise worthy tracks, the Big Sean assisted "Woah" and my favorite track on the mixtape "Nothing Else to Do" (which samples a HUGELY popular song from the 90s Atlanta skate scene) are a couple of standouts. "Big Head Bitches" shows off his humor and his ability to insert some truth into a fun,light track. There a guest appearances from the likes of Childish Gambino (another stone mountain representer),2chainz, Big Krit, Smoke Dza and others. This was a good effort (no pun) and it has what I think is the formula for CyHi's success; interesting soundscapes, light lyrical content, and smart and well timed punchlines.
This week's Video comes from Cincinnati rapper Monty C. Benjamin,I choose this video because the effects were as dope as the track itself. Spit fire rhymes over heavy percussion, you gotta love that right? Overall I think the video was highly creative a break from your normal trinity of blunts, bimbos, and big screen tv's.
This is another installment from the Big Rube series. This interview picks up where the last one left off. If you haven't seen Genesis I (the previous big rube post) check it out first. Personally this is my favorite part of the interview.
This week videos comes from artist Tabi Bonney and features Fat Trel. The song is called TOHL(Time of her life) it's a very fun, colorful, and creative video. The beat is bananas and the flow matches. I especially like Fat Trel on the song cause what I heard from him was all "hood shit", but it's nice to see diversity in artist.
