Monday 25 November 2013

Cadbury's milk Trae

A list of the rappers who appear on Trae's new mixtape I Am King: Puffy, Jeezy, T.I, Krayzie Bone, Roscoe Dash, Lil' Reese, Kevin Gates, Lupe Fiasco, Snoop Dogg, Meek Mill, Lil Boss, Wiz Khalifa, Jadakiss, Jay'Ton, Yo Gotti, Dougie D, Da Brat (!), Big K.R.I.T, and B.o.B.

By my reckoning there are 7 people in that list who have any business being on a Trae full length, the rest amount to the most generic assemblage of industry cameos since French Montana's album. So it's astonishing to find out that the immediate standout track and the only cut which sounds like it was recorded by a Texas rapper is the one which features guest vox from a journeyman hack like Snoop, who'd probably jump on an Admiral Crumple song for a quick cheque at this point. Nursery-rhyme beats, Trae still making boring car-talk tropes sound compelling, and a Snoop verse that's clearly ghostwritten by Trae FTW:

Trae ft. Baby Houston & Snoop - Old School
(From I Am King mixtape; 2013)



Looking on the bright side, at least Trae spared us a cameo from his Grand Hustle label mate Iggy Azelea. Bruce Samazan, James Murdoch, and Robbie Unkut are the only Aussies who should be allowed anywhere near Rap music, IMHO.

7 comments:

James said...

"Trae still making boring car-talk tropes sound compelling"

Rap game Jeremy Clarkson?

d said...

This song is really good and Snoop needs to properly retire & focous on being a talk show host.

School us on Admiral Crumple! Fucks sake Canada.

BARRY said...

'HE SWAPS OUT THE BLEACHED-BLOND HAIR FO A RUGGED BEARD AND EYEBROW STUD'

BARRY said...

BTW, PUP CLARKE DOESN'T SPEAK FO US ALL SOME OF US ARE EXCEPTIONALLY WELL-MANNERED (STILL, ONE NIL).

Robbie said...

Don't forget the gutter rap gahd Chop Chop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nUHvwye9fs

Kelvin Mack10zie said...

You can't discuss the internet career of Wicked22, without talking about Admiral Crumple too, imho.

d said...

Judging by my brief research there this lads got bangers, having a hard time picking between explaining his (definitely fictional) necrophilia hobby at length while on an elliptical machine or bragging about Necro sonning him.

Theres also a vid where Mindbenders standing behind him doing honestly, the worst rap hands Ive ever seen, by a country mile.