Gunplay = shapeshifting reptilian?

From "a human L.A riot" to "human methadone" in exactly 7 days :

"Human methadone, now leave me the eff alone
I take your bitch and eff her dome, it's me they wishin' death upon!"

Gunplay ft. Triple C's - Low Life
(From Bogota Rich : The Prequel mixtape; 2012)


Best hitherto unleaked song on the 'tape by the length of one of his very own Predator dreadlocks. Although Gunplay is clearly having difficulty deciding what he's the homosapien equivalent of on this 'tape, Low Life is almost certainly the conclusion of the Razor Ramon restaurant vignette in audio form :

Reasons why I love Youtube # 22

Oh shit, it's the making of the Bout It Bout It III video, featuring rare & secrete footage that's essentially the Rap equivalent of a lost behind-the-scenes clip of Orson Welles, Herman Mankiewicz and George Schaefer on the set of Citizen Kane in terms of historical importance to the artform :


Highlights include Cam telling the camera it's 105 degrees out as he stands there pouring with sweat in a vest over a tall tee and jeans, previously unseen shots of his legendary hot salmon coloured velour vest and shorts outfit, the chil'ren of Harlem shouting Master P's name as the grand imperial Percy Miller sets foot on the basketball court, and 1:50 onwards of the video being soundtracked by the alternate version of Bout It Bout It III with different vox by P and a coda of the classic No Limit "BOUNCE, BOUNCE, BOUNCE, BOUNCE" chant.

Who dat?

Another year, another obscure old Boo Rossini joint from before he adopted the Rossini part of his moniker :

"Ain't got no time for playa-haters and them popo's
two components of this dirty game that are no-no's"
Boo ft. 2 nameless weed carriers - Birds Fly South
(From Birds Fly South tape; 1995/The Boss Playa album; 1996)


Mad proto-action going on with this one : chicken-talk a decade before Gucci; bird calls long before Baby, Taj and JR; and Harry Potter swag sonics a full 17 years before Louis Gucci. All the guests are uncredited on the 1996 CD reissue of the original Birds Fly South tape so the 2 weed carriers on this are persons unknown until someone can identify them. Plz tell me they've got fancy names like Bobby Lobster and Kenny 3 Pistols rather than something utterly unspectacular like Barry and Terry.

Bloggaz gaffled 'em up

Akinyele - The Robbery Song
(From Put It In Your Mouth EP; 1996)



Koopsta Knicca - Robbers
(From Da Devil's Playground Underground Solo; 1999)


Topic of the day : bloggaz you'd trust to send you your shit and bloggaz you wouldn't trust to send you your shit. Let's come up with a definitive list for each category, chaps.

Gimme that scan, fool

Some dude upped The Source's review of Pretty Tone Capone's Case Dismissed 12" on his site, Done reposted it on Tumblr and then I came along to jack it for here because nothing Mob Style-related escapes my attention for long :


Re : Real Niggaz - it's always bothered me tremendously that Ren said "and when it comes to dicks you don't even have one" instead of "and when it comes you don't even got one" after the "you on the dicks of four n*ggaz not one" line.

Brief thoughts on the new 8Ball mixtape

Nay : too many weed-carriers; too many past-it mercenaries like Bun B and Styles P; too many schmaltzy R&B hooks; too many lukewarm beats which sound like 2010 Gorilla Zoe joints.

Yay : Oh shit - it's a member of 112 in 2012!; Waka addressing his ever-expanding pot-belly on Immaculate Perception ("that's the get-money gut!"); that song, Drought and the 'tape's unsurprising highlight Showed Up :

8Ball ft. MJG - Showed Up
(From Premro mixtape; 2012)


Verdict : 3 definite keepers, but perhaps lacking a moment as good as Cold Hard World from MJG's last solo outing :

MJG ft. T-Mack & Daz - Cold Hard World
(From All I Do EP; 2009)

Martorial elegance : Boosie edition # 7

After a drought of nothin' but thugged-out dudes in jhorts and overweight women who look like E-40 on the Boosie Justice Facebook page throughout january and february, we finally have a suitable candidate for 2012's first Boosie edition of Martorial Elegance. Drum roll plz, Animal :



Andre Williams - Jail Bait
(From Jail Bait 7"; 1957)


It's always disappointing that Detroit Rappers have never really utilised their own city's rich musical history; imagine Trick-Trick spazzing out and threatening to decapitate Yung Berg's head from his chain with a toothpick over Oscillator by Paperclip People or a Danny Brown cover of Jail Bait by the O.G Motor City R&B thug Andre Williams from the P.O.V of a dude who just can't help himself tellin' cornfed 90s babies "what the 80s like", preferably over a revamp of Andre's song by whoever was responsible for producing the stunning Lincoln Continental.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR F-F-FIRE!!

3 great Rap paradoxes - 2pac having the cojones to call Dre a poof for his World Class Wrecking Crew outfits in the mid 80s when he'd posed in a studded leather vest for the All Eyez On Me CD booklet a few months earlier; Pastor Troy warning some unrefined wench not to smoke near his $3000 coat moments after threatening to bust glocks in the crowded V.I.P section of one of ATL's finest nightspots on Fuck The Club Up; the sheer glut of Rap released in february yielding so few gems.

And so March reared its head yesterday and with it comes a new Gunplay joint which has officially just saved Rap music in 2012 :

Gunplay - Jump Out
(From Bogota Rich : The Prequel mixtape; 2012)


By my calculations, Jump Out has barely been out 5 hours and yet it's already poised to be the new Stick 'Em by 1:00 PM GMT. I'd gladly trade the careers of the entire Black Hippy collective for a remix of Slim Dunkin's I Gotta Eat with an unreleased Dunk verse where he doesn't shoot somebody's dog and a Gunplay cameo for the 2nd verse where he refers to himself as the one man 9/11.

Slim Dunkin - I Gotta Eat
(From Menace II Society mixtape; 2011)