And if not, why not? In any case, the 6th best Brick Squad joint of 2011 after Twin Towers 2 (Intro), I Prefer, My G, Bicken Back Bein' Bool and Koolin' It finally gets a video, arriving to remind us just how hard Triple F Life will probably suck in comparison and why white ppl should never attempt to rock bandanas :
Waka Flocka Flame ft. Wooh Da Kid - U The Type (From Lebron Flocka James 3 mixtape; 2011)
That last Wooh 'tape from a month or so back came and went without practically any discussion so I assume everybody else found it as dull as I did? The 15 minutes or so I spent skipping through that to try and find anything worth keeping was precious time I'm sure to regret wasting when I'm on my coughing and wheezing on my deathbed.
Mic Terror is Chicago's answer to Positive K if he'd been raised on 2 Live Crew and smutty Chicago House instead of the Coldcrush Brothers and MC Ricky D, whilst A-Mafia is the archetypal modern Harlem henchman thug-Rapper, but shove a whiff of Love's Train by Con Funk Shun under their respective noses and both gentlemen get so open that they end up trying to outdo each other for the bragging rights of who can lay claim to being the Rap game Lloyd Dobler :
Con Funk Shun - Love's Train (From To The Max LP; 1982)
Mic Terror - Can I Borrow A Feeling? (From Can I Borrow A Feeling? mixtape; 2010)
A-Mafia - Love Train (From My Side Of The Story mixtape; 2011)
But how can you spend this hungover sunday morning if you don't have much interest in either Jesus or chocolate eggs? By cozying up with this crazily ambrosial Picture Me Rollin' type joint from Trill Fam's answer to Paulie Walnuts' new mixtape, of course :
"House so big I ain't never met my neighbours paint so wet it ain't a colour, it's a flavour"
A 2012 documentary about Half-A-Mill, a dead Rapper with approximately 5 good solo songs to his name from an 8 year career due to his terrible choices in production, is almost as ridiculous as someone making a movie about David Bentley's footballing achievements, but if this film results in 'Mill's full DJ Scratch produced demo from 1995 finally getting some sort of release and the rest of the cuts on there are as jammin' as In The Projects then I guess it's hard to begrudge its existence, huh?
"Half-A-Mill spendin' c-notes, sailin' on sea boats takin' deep tokes, sippin' on gin, blowin' out weed smoke..
Half-A-Mill - In The Projects (From his demo tape with DJ Scratch; 1995)
Eternal internet props to DJ Mike Nice and Verge for unearthing and cleaning up In The Projectsover on T.R.O.Y back in 2009.
For American readers, JLS are basically the black ppl's One Direction; or One Direction are the white ppl's JLS if you want to be chronologically correct. Either way, be thankful your country's billboard chart has only been invaded by Simon Cowell's minions in coloured skinny chinos rather than Simon Cowell's minions in drop-crotch elasticated bottom chinos.
The coda of Katie and her crew wildin' out in the club to, amongst other songs, I Don't Like after the video might just be as important to future generations of Rap fans as that Super 8mm footage of Kool Herc and his buddies partying at Sedgwick and Cedar in 1973 from the BBC's Hip Hop History documentary.
You know how Noz jinxed Fat Trel's Nightmare On E St mixtape the moment he dubbed Trel the greatest Rapper under the age of 21 in America? Yo, I sorta feel like I put a similar curse on A-Mafia because no sooner do I sing his praises via the form of a compilation does he release a atrocious new mixtape called Under The Scope which completely halts any momentum he'd been building. Seriously, other than the previously leaked cuts Road To The Riches and the Real Live Pro remix with 2 Chainz, it's a disaster.
Thankfully, old boy seems to realise that the mixtape quickly sank without trace due to it stanking Datpiff up, and has returned to an earlier banger from 2011's What The Streets Made Me 'tape in an effort to patch up his reputation and begin rebuilding his buzz :
A-Mafia - Star Wars
(From What The Streets Made Me mixtape; 2011)
Chuck Zito-esque post-Dipset henchman-Rap par excellence, and possibly the only Rap video you'll see today where its protagonist compares himself to Scrooge McDuff and appears to pay homage to our homie Reza AKA The Arab Parrot :
Hecky thump, so what was $tarlito's most grandiose April Fools prank yesterday then : the $100 price tag on Bandcamp for the new album or the state of the production on an album we're now supposed to shell out 5 bones of our hard earned money for? To avoid ending up with egg on your face on April 2nd all you really need to cop from Mental WARfare is Burn One's Substitute and title track, the Coop produced 15, and this Lil' Keis banguh :
$tarlito - Live From The Kitchen (From Mental WARfare album; 2012)
For anyone not keeping score, the best songs from the last couple of 'lito albums have also been produced by Lil' Keis or Coop, while his collaborations with Burn One seem to be generating fewer and fewer keepers per album nowadays. A damn shame when they were probably the best rapper-producer duo of 2010, and 2011 saw Burn One waste a wealth of great beats on overrated nuisances like A$AP Rocky and Alley Boy, and his own stable of Joe The Rapper everymen like Scotty and KD.
So, the subject of the day is Burn One beats that you wish he'd have lavished on $tarlito; a topic which must always begin with Bury Me Alive and Lord Have Mercy, right?
