Soulja Boy - White Lights (SODMG, 2012)
easily the best Soulja Boy song in this young year (which has already seen two Soulja Boy tapes, no less). Clams Casino produced it, and Soulja rides the beat well. I hope this means that Clams and Soulja are about to start working together semi-reguarly again, but I’m not gonna hold my breath. For now, this is sufficient enough.
Riff Raff SODMG & Soulja Boy - Versace Bentley (SODMG, 2012)
To combat the rumors of Riff Raff’s SODMG allegiance being a hoax, it appears that Soulja Boy has finally decided to start recording with his most valuable asset. Versace Bentley is the first in the line of many songs scheduled to come about as a the result of this new union, and a joint album, Freestyle Heavyweights, is in the works. Maybe Soulja can help Riff Raff focus? That’s all that Riff is really missing right now.
Versace Bentley is obviously freestyle, but both sound good. Hearing Soulja’s quirky adlibs run over Riff Raff’s rap is a bit awkward, but entertaining enough. The minimal beat allows for Riff to flex heavily. Soulja is hot like Pensacola.
Anonymous asked: is riff raff really in sodmg? i dont really hear any promotion or collabs from anyone else in sod. so i wasnt sure if it was some crazy rumor he started himself just to cause controversy.
I’ve thought about this before. Soulja Boy has tweeted that Riff Raff is in SODMG many times before, but it’s pretty obvious that Riff Raff is only on the label, not a part of the clique itself. Riff Raff is doing his own thing, which is good and bad depending on how you look at it. Good, because he can keep doing songs with TKO Capone and avoid doing songs with Soulja Boy’s back-up dancers. Bad, because Riff Raff still needs guidance and more restraint.
Elaborating on that, as much as I love Riff Raff’s music and see the potential for him to at least garner some acclaim outside of his current fanbase, he totally needs someone to mold his career and handle his business affairs, especially when it comes to the quality and distribution of his mixtapes. The fact that he is a hardly-known artist releasing un-mastered projects with instrumentals running two minutes past the songs’ end for TEN DOLLARS is ridiculous. Even if he was giving away his music on Datpiff, it’d still be frustrating, but we pay (or some of us did) hard-earned money for something that Riff Raff just barely throws together. Let’s keep in mind here that Sour & Gunpowdered was delayed for four months only to be released unfinished. That is unfathomable.
I really wish he’d use his SODMG connections to really help define his career, but aside from a chain and a name change his SODMG contract hasn’t amounted to anything. The fact that we have to wait until next Spring to even get another solo project from Riff Raff is just crazy after the debauchery that is Sour & Gunpowder (though, again, it’s good and had the potential to be great if it was finished. FINISHED. FINISHED GODDAMNIT. FINISH IT)
Riff Raff SODMG - Sour & Gunpowder (Riff Raff Records, 2011)
Riff Raff’s oft-delayed Sour & Gunpowder has finally dropped on iTunes. You can buy it now for $9.99, or wait for alternative means. From the sounds of the samples I’ve heard, this is easily his most cohesive effort to date. Support and bring the rice out!
Note: this is a No DJ album. Riff Raff is just too cheap to get a new DJ Woogie-less cover.
Riff Raff & TKO Capone - Big Ballin’ No Practice (SODMG?, 2011)
Can we get that mixtape, guys? Putting aside the hilarious music video, these guys are easily one of my favorite rapping duos out there, with their only direct competition being Future and Trouble (and Waka and Wooh on occasion, but I’ll touch on that at a more appropriate time). TKO is easily the successor to the throne Chamillionaire once held when he was making his initial mixtape rounds, and he fills a void that really hasn’t been occupied since Chamillionaire went nuts and started rapping like Youtube commentors. Riff Raff on the other hand - what can I say about this guy I haven’t already said? He whispers his first verse and then puts elaborate verses throughout his second. Although he’s not spitting the off-the-wall verbiage he’s become known for here, he still manages to incorporate these little gimmicks into his flow in order to remain fresh. Together, they can do no wrong.
So, Riff Raff’s lean-carriers have a name, and surprise! It’s the Lean Team. The creativity is just flowing, isn’t it? I will give them this much, the title of Purple Haze & Hand Grenades makes it a perfect compliment to the delayed Sour & Gun Powder.
The good news is, this means that Sour & Gun Powder will most likely not feature Andy Samberg’s lost cousin and the rest of the Lean Team. The bad news is there’s an entire Riff Raff mixtape that’s going to feature these guys.
(Source: justz)
Riff Raff - Jerry Rice (SODMG, 2011)
Riff Raff’s take on the Get Buck Polow Da Don aesthetic that was so popular a few years ago. Riff Raff lets his flow just bounce along to the melody like a Slinky, but then he unfortunately lets his aspiring rapper friends jump on he last minute of that song. He still brought the rice out, at least.
Riff Raff’s Sour & Gunpowder drops August 15th.
Riff Raff - The Rice Emperor (YAYODANCING, 2011)
So, there’s no good Riff Raff mixtapes on the internet. I mean there is, but they’re on iTunes, and paying for all of them would cost most of us at least half of our paychecks. Riff Raff’s mixtapes are sporadic and inconsistent to say the least, which is why all of the videos he’s done within the past few months have been songs from various stages in his career. I decided to do everyone a solid, as someone who actually purchased most of Riff Raff’s music; I decided to make a Best Of-style mixtape thus far. What follows will be a very strange, very #obtuse journey into the mind of one crazy redneck. Tracklist is as follows:
1. Larry Bird
2. Juice
3. Jose Canseco (feat. Fat Pimp)
4. Graveyard Music (G5 Kid Murph)
5. Lil B (feat. G5 Kid Murph)
6. Certified Worldstar
7. I C U
8. I Shoulda Brought The Rice Out
9. Swamp (feat. TKO Capone)
10. Walter Payton
11. Apple Berry
12. Coogi (feat. TKO Capone)
13. Super Bowl Rings
14. Cold Cup
Soulja Boy - My City (SODMG, 2011)
The standout track from Dre’s recent 21 EP gets an accompanying music video. It takes place in Miami, which is most certainly not Soulja’s city, but I digress. Those rising synths are a staple of that region, at least. This is, once again, Soulja’s best attempt at creating a Dirty South version of Diddy-Dirty Money’s trademark sound from Last Train To Paris, and it’s a fantastic imitation. The video doesn’t feature nearly as much driving around as I pictured for it, but it does feature plenty of strippers, which is a first from what I recall for a Soulja video. Good to be 21, eh Dre?
On another note, Dre seems to be crediting himself as Lil’ Dre for this release. Make of that what you will, I know I’ll just choose to ignore it.
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