(From the internet; 2006/Preserved album; 2011)
Well, this sux dunnit? I was hoping I wouldn't have to write this post after the initial reports of Young Bleed's demise were greatly exaggerated. Bleed dying a week after the No Limit vs. Cash Money Verzuz is the Southern Rap equivalent of Ozzy Osbourne dying after his final show. R.I.P to the funkadelic, psychedelic reinterpretation of the third kind. Bleed was Louisiana's foremost exponent of Country-Rap Swamp-Blues choonz who was still putting out good music in 2025. The great thing about Bleed is how effortless his stream-of-consciousness flow sounded even though his writing was intricately honed to perfection. Kinda like Juvenile, he rapped like he was talking to you in the flyest of Louisiana pentecostal preacherman tongues. He didn't sound like anybody else in Concentration Camp or on No Limit, and his style was an obvious influence on 2000s rappers like $tarlito and Curren$y. I acknowledge How Ya Do Dat as a classic, but Bleed's original solo version A Fool is the de facto better song. No shotz @ the verses from Master P and C-Loc, and all shotz @ Beats By The Pound for remixing Happy Perez's beat and messing it up. Don't even front that this isn't the definitive version.
(From C-Loc's Concentration Camp compilation; 1997)
7 comments:
the man put out a really good album on Strange music of all labels plus this track with Suga Free shouldn't work as well as it does https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEu9WfRCNeM&list=RDKEu9WfRCNeM&start_radio=1
Ah shit, RIP. Really liked Bleed and listened to those first two albums regularly. Balls and My Word may be my favorite album on No Limit (but it’s close regardless).
Hat tip for putting me on A Fool. One of my favorite songs of 97 (though I also read it may have been recorded / released in 95 or 96).
DAMN MAN!!!!! Wonder why he wasn’t at the Cash Money No Limit Verzus. SMH RIP
We need an essential Young Bleed playlist!
That album on Strange Music has some of my fave songs by him.
Bleed's My Own qualifies as an outshined masterpiece. It's definitely a better Young Bleed album than Balls & My Word which is more of a 'what would happen if Concentration Camp and No Li mit combined?' album.
One of the G.O.A.T O.G versions.
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