Well…

Well, Th@ Kid never got back to me. So he no longer exists right now. Going to review Tyga’s Careless World: Rise of the Last King.

 

Coming soon.

Change up.

Well, I am doing an interview with a fairly indie artist. Th@ Kid, and shortly after, I will be reviewing his mixtape, Midnight:12 AM

Lack of Posting.

Sorry all, with school and such I haven’t been able to post much. Should be picking back up within the next week or so.

Review, Lil B: White Flame.

Alright, I’m reviewing this like I did my last review, three main parts of rap, and how he does in each.

First a little background info, ‘White Flame’ is Lil B’s 9th mixtape, and he’s also one of this tapes producers.

Now, part one, the tapes production. For a start, I’m just going to come out and say it, this tape has absolutely terrible production. There wasn’t a spot where the beats were pleasing to my ears. On top of that, they sound like something I could make if I went out and bought some Skull Candy headphones, and plugged them into my Wal-Mart piano, and used a broken drumset for any drum beats. On the note of that though, there are two tracks where Lil B himself produced.  All I have to say to that, please Lil B, don’t ever, ever do that again. Another MAJOR issue I had with the tapes production, is the random “BASEGOD” vocal sample in the background of every song or randomly thrown in vocal sample of words, like “swag” or “bitch” or even “nigga” just makes every tracks terrible production that much less appealing to the ears.

Part two, Lil B’s flow, if I were to describe it in one word, it would be ‘ugly’. Lil B honestly sounds like he’s trying to rip off Lil Wayne with his flow, just his stop, pause, and go style, and it doesn’t work for him, at all. Behind the rip off stylings, he’s also got this arrogant tone, which irritates me, because of the fact he has no right to be cocky. Plus, his flow has no link with the beats, he’s either WAY ahead of the beat, or so far behind that he just can’t catch up. Well, I guess there is one thing I can say about Lil B’s flow, it has improved from the last time I heard it on Lil Wayne’s ‘Sorry 4 the Wait’ mixtape, it’s better then it was in the past, but still nothing special, at all.

Finally, the tapes lyricism. To start things off, this makes me think that Lil B had never bothered to look in a thesuarus, or even a dictionary for that matter. He can’t rhyme, if I took a verse of his, two of ten words would rhyme. If the fact he can’t rhyme is bad enough, his lyrics are about how people are jealous of his money, his fame, and his ‘ rapping skill’, now, when I can’t think of a rhyme for so many basic words, like for example, the second track on this tape, maybe, MAYBE there are 3 rhymes. If the lack of rhymes aren’t bad enough, he has no cleverness to his lyrics, at all. Like for example, “Don’t come in my house *pause* I’ll blow your brains *longer pause* out your ass.’ or ‘”I shit butt naked in my house with my gun.” Find me some cleverness when all his lines are incredibly similar.

My challenge to you, get through this tape, without having to switch to real music once.

RATING: 1.5/10

FAVORITE TRACKS: Didn’t have any.

New review by the end of the week.

Lil B: White Flame, coming soon.

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Review; Tell Your Friends, Chip Tha Ripper

Chip Tha Ripper, is an emcee out of Cleveland. Working with big names on this album, like Bun B, Kid Cudi, and with Dot Da Genius producing a lot of this album, it is something that just by reading who’s on it, it should be good.

Tell Ya Friends is his fourth release, being a mix tape.

I’m going to stray away from my usual album reviews with this one, because if I did a track by track, I’d be doing 22 tracks, and I’m not really up to that. So, since this being a hip-hop album, I’m going to review the main parts of hip hop in this tape. Those being, Chip’s flow, production(beats, and things of that nature), and lyricism.

Let’s get into it, we’ll start with the production on this tape.

Honestly, this tape has great production, all of the beats aren’t only well-organized, they also complement Chip and any guest on the track. Like the track, Hold Me Down, for example had great production to it, with the chorus of female voices in the background of the hooks gradually getting louder as the song goes on, but not so loud that they drown out the voice of the guest vocalist(who sings it). Also, the slow, kinda melodic and I want to say friendly drum beat coupled with what sounds like this upright bass sample, makes this a great production track. Yet, there are some songs on here where the production doesn’t really hit any high bars, where the samples used, the track could just go without. Like on the track, Be A Model, if it’s not this water dripping sound in the back of the hooks, its this synthy sounding humming sound, that does literally nothing for the song, except make it have an annoying ring to it. Another spot where the production is kinda eh on this tape, is GloryUs, where there are three sounds to be heard other than the vocals. A snap, a drum here and there, and a “bababababababababa” thrown in places in the song.

Moving on from the production, let’s move on to Chip’s flow. Now, for you people who aren’t really sure what a flow is, it’s the rhythm that the rapper has when spitting a bar or verse. Now, if I had to compare Chip’s flow to anyone big in the game, I’d call him, a faster Cudi. Meaning he has a Kid Cudi sound to his voice, but just spits his general verse a lot faster. Which isn’t bad, but sometimes he’ll speed over the beat in some verses, causing him to slow it down, and let the beat catch up. Which works on some tracks, and not on others. All and all though, Chip has a pretty good flow.

Final, and in my opinion, the most important, the lyricism. Chip’s lyrics are the ones that you need to listen to to get the full effect from, because of the quickness he spits them out. He has a lot of clever lines, but some clever line fall short, when they end with an ugly punchline. Other then that, he has a lot of multiple syllable rhymes, and tends to really build a verse, and most verses, he’s spitting six lines, at least five of them, if not all, will end with you saying, “that was pretty good.”

In a whole, this was a great tape, Chip really made an impression.

RATING: 8.5/10

FAVORITE TRACKS: GOOD EVENING, CACTUS, HOLD ME DOWN, BOOMSHAKALAKA, RIDE 4 YOU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnXiX4lTBaU (Link to ‘Good Evening’)