A Car Driving By With A BOOMIN' System...

I guess from time to time when I find some interesting music I will post my opinion about it; such as the Travis Barker remix of Forever a few days ago.

The last FULL album i was rocking was that Slaughterhouse CD and that is PURE LYRICAL FIRE.
GET. IT. NOW.  Especially if you are a hip hop lyrical head.  Your walls will bleed when you blast that at home.

Right now what is making me deaf for the past few weeks since its release is Lil Wayne's No Ceiling Mixtape; now i know there are a bunch of people who couldnt give a fuck about him and thats cool; he's not my favorite, but he does rise above most who just rap about the same thing over and over and over again; I do enjoy his twist and style.

The ignorant side of me likes it a lot, but the side of me that acutally uses brain power sees it as a good listen, but since a free mixtape with him spitting with no apparent structure as he would for an album it lacks a path for someone to follow when listening to a story.  Well except for songs that are geared towards women and his ability to be a playa and handle his chicks; he's kinda on point with those songs alone.

The beat jacking he does is cool and he picked some hot tracks to jack.  My fav's are Wasted, Banned from TV and Run This Town; honorable mention is I Gotta Feeling.

The thing about him releasing this album for free to his fans is that most the songs (again) lacks a story line and just filled with punchline after punchline and over the top word play.  He's basically saying the things he's saying to say them cuz he thinks they are hot, but i have to agree most of it is hot if that's the sort of thing you are into when you listen to music like this.

Out of 10 i would give this a 7.5; it's a good listen and a nice change from the songs that these beats belong to that play on the radio a hundred times a day.

BSoM

Seven Years Ago We Lost A Rap King In The Making

Lyrically no one can touch this man. Still to this day no one can rhyme like him and couldn't hold a candle to his lyrically precise catalog. He made an impression on me not because he was a fellow South Bronx Puerto Rican, but his ability to surpass the mundane format of rap/hip-hop was at the time (even today).

Of course he would rap about Money, Women, Sex, Flossin' and that thug shit, but just like 2Pac his rhymes were laced to address real world issues; taking jabs at political, racial and the class system that we still seem to be stuck in today. What was the best that he was able to put through his songs is to not get stuck with same same lingo that is regurgitated in the streets then on songs or vice versa; I believe he made it acceptable to talk normally and expand your vocabulary while not always resorting to "street slang" even when you're just chillin on the block.

In an interview with a few people in his crew they were surprised to always catch him reading the dictionary then they hear his rhymes and just stand amazed and have to run and look up what the hell he said and what it means.

Its just a sad fact that when some of the past heavyweights in the rap game are mentioned that he's left out 90% of the time.

As for my favorite songs right now (among many): Capital Punishment Ft. Prospect; Western Ways Ft. JuJu from the Beatnuts; Whatcha Gon Do?; Brave In The Heart & Where You At?.