First installment in our new quarterly rap-up special! Featuring writing from myself and HumbleGold, we wrote about our favorite 25 releases released thus far this year. This is numbers 25-15 of the series, the rest will drop in the coming days.
Squadda B - Back $ellin Crack (Green Ova, 2011)
Squadda dropped his latest project, the anticipated Back $ellin Crack, on the Greenova bandcamp this holiday morning (don’t get it twisted, this maybe gift giving season, but you’ve still gotta put five on it). It’s worth its asking price though with features from Mondre, Danny Brown, and Shady Blaze, as well as production from the usual suspects.
No longer spamming, but still making sure everyone continues to read No Jumper. We had a brief break there for the last five days or so, and I retreated to my tumblr after some old man yelled at me. Thanks.
We’re back now, with a new batch of posts as well as our new editor: B. Michael Payne. He’s a great guy and an even better writer (..wait), and you should definitely follow his tumblr here. Also, shout outs to Thun for acting as a mentor to me during my these rough times and my homies for wiping away the tears (pause) caused by perpetually-angry bloggers.
KD - G-Fluid
Main Attrakionz - Blackberry Ku$h
Tony Yayo - Gunpowder Guru 3
Casey Veggies - Sleeping In Class
Ace Hood: Industry Cockroach
I didn’t write this, but this interview deserves some shine. Lil’ Panini, of Team Panini fame, recently chopped it up with Green Ova general, Squadda Bambino. Lots of quotables here, especially from Squadda, who is quickly becoming one of the most interesting rappers doing this shit. Make sure to check it out HERE!
It’s 4/20! I don’t smoke anymore, so this is of little value to my personal life. However, as an active listener of rap in 2011, where every holiday (official or not) brings about a plethora of new mixtapes, it’s only appropriate that 4/20 would bring a bunch of blunted projects from some of my favorite acts. Strangely enough, Soulja’s is an ode to lean and Main Attrakionz are essentially the human-embodiment of drank, but rest assured that the purple in their lives can be consumed through different routes than the digestive system.
Main Attrakionz - Blackberry Ku$h (Green Ova, 2011)
Curren$y - Covert Coup (JETS, 2011)
Squadda B (feat. E Da Ref) - Black Kings (Green Ova, 2011)
The homies Squadda B and Beautiful Lou have been working together a lot lately, and it’s been to great results each time. As one of the original followers of this blog, I was sent this beat a year ago by Lou before anyone had spit anything to it, so I decided to rhyme to it myself; if I had any idea how to upload a cheap cell-phone file to the internet I would, and I’d allow everyone to hear me try and rap (and subsequently probably laugh, or shy away from the computer in embarrassment because they fuck with me). I’m glad Squadda got a hold of it, and put it to good use. Better use than I did, that’s for sure.
Squadda spits a quick, blunted verse that’s very much God’s Son-era Nas in execution, both socially conscious and aggressive. Addressing such a profound topic in such a short spurt normally wouldn’t work for most rappers, but Squadda manages to convey all his ideas very clearly in his time frame, wasting no time to stray away from the topic, staying focused on the subject at hand. A very Malcom X-inspired line strikes me towards the end of Squadda’s verse; a black king in the new millenium, surrounded by house niggas and coons, so they look at me different/I was raised to be a goon, but back in the day, the term “goon” would be “runaway slave”
Squadda B - I Smoke Because I Don’t Care About Death (Green Ova Music, 2011)
February is starting off right with this new Squadda B project.
Main Attrakionz - S.N.Y.L. (internet, 2011)
The homie Beautiful Lou sent over his newest collaboration with SAH/TheFader-favorites, Main Attrakionz, whom for those uninitiated, is Squadda B (frequent Lil B collaborator, most notably the producer of the [Based] godly Cook Steak Knife) and Mondre. I’m not all that familiar with their output, but by the sounds of this track, I should get familiar (word Drama). Despite being from Oakland, S.N.Y.L. is blessed with a distinctly Southern feel, courtesy of Lou’s signature chopped, slowed-down tempo. It only clocks in at 1:43 seconds, tragically short, but each moment of this particularly urgent, almost frantic record is fully fleshed out, making their short statement ever the more powerful.
Bonus: Sed the Dean goes in over a brassy Lou production, rapping like a young Beanie Sigel and crooning like a young Ghostface. You can’t really go wrong with that.
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