I was hoping for more amusing dated references on Lil Blood's new album, Methadone: Kicking the Habit, like maybe some side-splitting Monica Lewinsky jokes or a declaration of how amazing the movie Titanic is, but that does not occur, unfortunately. The album is actually pretty horrible and I don't recommend listening to it. Almost all the beats are recycled and Lil Blood doesn't have anything terribly interesting or clever to say on here. The album does have one good song on it though:
Lil Blood built up a lot of hype around himself and this album in particular and while I don't think he delivered with this release, I wish him the best and hope that he makes a lot of money and continues to improve as an artist.
Let me end this post with a sweet new video I just now made loaded with my favorite images of two of my favorite rappers:
This song is awesome and if you don't think so then we probably can't be friends. When I first heard this song back in 2010 I had to fight back tears of joy. Hearing Messy Marv's drug-induced slur on my favorite Lil B song of all time was like a dream come true. I hope one day Lil B and Messy Marv actually put out an album together. I would buy 100 copies and hand them out to the less fortunate.
What do you think of the new Lil Blood album?
Do you feel bad for Lil Blood because he has T-Rex arms?
Do you like my video?
Genuine LOL at "Featuring The Smash Single..." in the bottom left corner
The general consensus amongst Bay Area rap fans seems to be that Messy Marv was one of the best rappers in the Bay up through his 2005 album, Bandannas, Tattoos & Tongue Rings and then he became super coked out and all of his albums began sucking.
I don't really agree with that sentiment at all. The quality of his projects has definitely become more uneven since then, but to say that all of his music has been garbage for the last seven years is a highly inaccurate statement. Sure he's released some pretty terrible albums in the last couple years (Kontraband and Nemmo: Paystyle come to mind), but he's also continued to release some of the most entertaining rap music in the Bay. Volume one and two of Prices on My Head, Thug Money on Yo Family and Highly Aggressive contain some of Mess' best songs to date. I mean how could you hate on a song like this:
Anyways, The Boy Boy Young Mess (no one calls him that but himself) just released a new album/mixtape titled Da New Frank Lukas Dat Neva Wore Da Mink Coat. How concise! This album sounds like he is catering to all of those listeners who think he hasn't released anything good since '05, with raps and beats that sound like a throwback to his earlier years. The beats sound like they were all done by the same producer, with a minimalistic 90's West Coast gangster vibe to them.
All of the hooks are rather sparse, with Mess usually just saying a line or two and then letting the beat breathe for the chorus. It's not the worst thing a rapper can do for a hook, but the technique wears thin by the end of the album. He used this same approach on Kokaine Ballads, his last album, which sounded very similar to this one, but was bogged down by endless no-name features.
And that's what really makes Frank Lukas an above average album for Mess: almost no features.
This new project has also gotten a decent amount of promo and Messy Marv even did a new music video for a cut off the album:
When's the last time you saw Messy Marv in a music video? It's been years!
A few notes about the video above:
-Mess has no neck/looks like a turtle/has horrible posture. He needs to spend less time on the computer and do someexercises to correct his posture.
-Take special note of his weird dance moves on display at 2:58, 3:47 and 3:56 onward. Rappers don't really dance in music videos anymore. He is a true innovator.
- Does the white female in this video look like she is in her mid 30's and has had five kids or is it just me? What is she doing in a rap video?
What do you think of this album? Have you read this yet?
What are your thoughts and feelings about Messy Marv?
I remember seeing a tweet by Mistah FAB several years ago that just said, "I fuck with Tity Boi in Atlanta" and I was like: o_O.
I really wanted to see how far a rapper's career could go with such an awful name, but unfortunately Tity Boi changed his official rap name to 2 Chainz last year, so we never will have an answer to that question.
It's nice to see Philthy Rich collaborating with a well-known artist outside of the Bay and 2 Chainz is pretty dope. Not really sure what has gotten into Philthy, but he's been releasing music at a frantic pace for several months now. It sounds like he is starting to really step up his game and has been developing as a rapper. On this track he changes up his flow and it sounds a bit weird, but it's good to see him trying different things and not using the exact same flow on every song, like other rappers.
This song is off Philthy Rich's new mixtape, True Religion Shawty, which brings me to my main question: Does Philthy Rich actually wear these jeans?
So hideous!
Whenever I see a guy wearing a pair of jeans with designs on the back pocket I automatically assume he is either a homosexual or European or both.
Then again I don't really know dick about fashion, because my good looks and charm do not require me to sweat over having the latest fashion to attract the opposite sex. I imagine a dude with an underdeveloped upper body and love handles breaking off a couple c-notes for a pair of these jeans and then after spending hours on a Pick Up Artist website, going to a club and trying to convince a female to let him buy her a $10 beer and then going home alone and crying while Black Eyed Peas plays in the background the entire time.
Sorry if that struck too close to home for you bro. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Hey, did you know they sell jean shorts too:
My friend told me in 2004 that jean shorts are not cool anymore and you should never wear them, so I have not since then. Are they cool again?
First off, do you remember a couple posts back when I pointed out how heavily The Jacka song "Here We Are" featuring 12 Gauge Shotie, Young Lox and Joe Blow, from The Verdict was being recycled? It has been recycled on the new Joe Blow and Young Lox album and I am proud to announce that I just discovered it has also been put on the producer, AK-47's, new mixtape, Rounds From the K! All that's left is for 12 Gauge Shottie to throw this song on a project of his and the cycle will be complete!
Anyways, here's some new Bay Area rap music heat 4 yo azz (no homo):
Ampichino kills this song, he has created a niche for himself of emotional mob music that he can ride out for the rest of his career and it would be nothing but great music. Despite Krypto not being on here, this song is going to be on S.B. and Krypto's Covering Grounds 2, which is exciting news. The first Covering Grounds albums was dope, you should check it out.
Young L has a new mixtape out with Soulja Boy and I want to talk to you about how influential his production style is and how he is responsible for many of the top songs on Billboard right now:
You know those beats that are all the rage these days, that are sparse, bass-heavy, and a bit off-kilter? Young L developed that sound with The Pack all the way back in 2006. After the group was dropped from their label and went on hiatus, Young L's production style continued to evolve, but Southern California picked it up where he had left off and turned it into Jerkin Music. Jerkin had its moment, but didn't really progress much and died off within a year or two. And now here we are in 2012, with that same sound that L came up with six years ago becoming hot again, but now finding itself in the hands of more mainstream artists than ever before. It started last year with regional hits like "Up!", "Swaggin All Day", and "My Shit Bang" and leaked onto the radio nationwide this year with hits like "Rack City", "The Motto", and "Dance (A$$)". It's funny how long it takes for a particular sound to work its way into mainstream success and how the person who is behind its origins gets almost no credit or recognition.
Guce just came out with his new album, Guce Leeroy: The Last Dragon (I Got Them Kicks) after endless delays. It was originally supposed to come out in Summer of 2010 (LOL), but instead just dropped this past week with minimal promo. His last official solo full-length was in 2008, so it's nice to hear a new legit release from him. The album is pretty solid and benefits greatly from minimal features. It contains a great deal of polished, laid-back beats with atmospheres that jumps between triumphant and introspective; just the type of music you'd expect from a veteran rapper making mature gangster rap music.
Here we see Shoboat doing a spot-on impression of Master P circa 1999
There is this new song by a rapper named Suge B from Ohio that is pretty decent, but Shoboat's verse is absolutely amazing. I have trimmed the song to just his verse and the hook. Shoboat is one of the best Southern rappers out right now, who made the unfortunate mistake of being from Cleveland.
He has connected with the Bay Area in the last year or two and begun to establish an audience over here, which is a definite move in the right direction.
Do you remember Lil Chris? He made one of the best songs of 2011 according to some retarded end-of-the-year list. He is part of the Young Hustlaz, an Oakland quintet that is unknown outside of the fact that Young Gully is a member. Speaking of Gully, he sounds more alive and inspired on this track than he has since his Tonite Show album.
Apparently this beat is from a Young Jeezy song, but I didn't know that until I googled it because I only listen to and write about rap music that just a handful of people care about:
Producer Lukie Baby sent me this new song by Yayo, a competent rapper from the Bay, featuring San Quinn, but I think a proper introduction to Yayo would be the song posted above from last year. In it Yayo openly brags about his drug use over an amazing, sweeping beat. The beginning of this song is unintentionally (or intentionally?) hilarious, with Yayo stating in a deadpan tone, "I'm so fucked up I can't feel my face after all that cocaine I've been sniffing." Plus adlibs of rappers pretending to vomit are always entertaining. Good drug song!
Not even mixed!?! So hardcore! There should be more songs about drinking excessively, it is the most relatable drug of choice for people such as myself (us common folk can't afford cocaine). This beat is huge, lead by horns to create a dense soundscape. It's good to see new Roach Gigz music popping up again, I wasn't really feeling the last new single from him, because Mac Dre samples have been played out since like '07.
As I was putting together this post new albums from Lil Blood, Messy Marv, Main Attrakionz and more dropped, so I've got a lot of new music to go listen to now.
What do you think of these songs?
What new music have you been bumping lately?
If there is one holiday we here at 100GoMW,YLS cherish most, it's Valentine's Day. I hope that you have a special someone to spend this day with, but if you don't I'm sure you do not really care and will just go about your day as usual, because you are a man. If you are a woman, then I don't know what the fuck you are doing reading this, women aren't really into cool things like this blog.** Here is the most romantic song I could find for you bros (no homo):
Nah jk this song is pretty awful because domestic abuse is a serious matter that we should probably not lol about. Here is a nicer song to play for the lady in your life:
This track is off Mistah FAB's last good release, the Demolition Men mixtape, Play Time is Over! from 2008. My girlfriend likes this song a lot and she is a woman, so hopefully the female that you have feelings for will enjoy this song as well. You can put it on the mixtape you will play for her in the background as you charm her with flowers and dim lighting. Just remember to try to act like a cooler version of yourself around the woman you like. Don't be yourself!
**Note: If you are a girl who reads this blog then please don't leave an annoying comment stating how special you are because you like things that typically guys like. I am fresh out of vagina awards.
Between 2005 and 2006, Yukmouth and friends released three All Out War mixtapes that were really some of the best Bay Area rap of those years. The albums were loaded with quality posse cuts and featured Yukmouth at his best. Yuk has been a bit inconsistent in the last decade, but is always at his best when he is angry and/or collaborating with fellow rappers, otherwise he tends to get a little soft. The All Out War series gave him the opportunity to collaborate with tons of great rappers and talk shit about and threaten tons of other rappers.
The Regime is a very informal group, with a constantly revolving cast of characters that basically includes anybody that Yukmouth is cool with at the time. The only real constant presence throughout these three mixtapes besides Yuk is Gonzoe, a dope rapper from LA that you may have heard of.
All Out War Volume 1 was released at the beginning of 2005, with Yukmouth and his friends taking aim at all of the G-Unit crew, in particular 50 Cent. At the time 50 Cent was peaking in popularity and regular people were walking around in G-Unit clothing (LOL), so they were a pretty easy target. Lots of accusations of 50 Cent being a snitch, etc. on here.
Hilarious diss of the album: Calling Tony Yayo, "Tony Gayo" LOL.
The opening track of the All Out War series. Yukmouth handles the chorus quite well and discusses how The Game was looking scared and holding onto his jewelry when they met and how he is going to shoot the fuck out of 50 Cent, along with some other miscellaneous disses he throws out there. I'm glad no one ended up getting shot.
A super catchy posse cut here, with Yukmouth's comedic alcoholic alter ego Linno Da Winno presenting the song. From what I can gather Dru Down was locked up in a record label contract dispute for most of the 2000's, preventing him from releasing anything official, so features from him on these mixtapes were some of the only verses heard from him in these years, and much appreciated from fans such as myself.
This song is hard as fuck. The mixtapes feature some of Yukmouth's dopest singles to date, he becomes much more focused and angry when there is some sort of active beef going on against him. I think most rappers have rather fragile egos, so when people start talking shit about them they all of a sudden become real hardbody and stop trying to make fruity radio singles for a bit to reestablish their tough persona.
After dissing G-Unit continuously, according to Yukmouth, he ran into Game at a club and told him he only had a problem with 50 Cent and not him and Game acted cool about it. But then Game came out with a diss song directed at Yukmouth. On top of that, a few months later after talking things out they were supposed to record a song together squashing the beef, but Game took the opportunity to diss Yukmouth again, which infuriated Yuk and prompted the release of All Out War Volume 2 in the Summer of 2005. During this time The Game had a falling out with G-Unit as well, so the diss tracks shifted squarely towards Game for the most part.
Hilarious disses of the album: making fun of Game's butterfly face tattoo, tongue ring, and former career as a male stripper.
That awkward moment when you diss your future boss...C-Bo is on this
track going in on all of G-Unit, including Young Buck, who would later
sign him to his Cashville Records label. The joke ended up being on the both
of them when 50 Cent and Young Buck had a falling out and 50 put a
lockdown on any of Buck's releases, including C-Bo's. The Jacka's verse is mostly comprised of recycled lines, but
it's nice to hear him on a track with C-Bo again. Yukmouth sounds genuinely upset on this song.
Young Skrilla, who was Soulja Slim's protege, is a dope rapper from New Orleans who appeared on the first two volumes of All Out War before leaving The Regime and fading into obscurity (he goes by Skrilly Dilly now lol). His style is really similar to Soulja Slim's and other rappers from NO in the late 90's/early 2000's. Listen to this song with headphones or in your car, the low-end in the beat is ridiculous. Ampichino is on a handful of track on each mixtape, which is dope, but since these albums' release he has become a much more impressive rapper.
Joke intermission:
Q: What did 50 Cent say to his Grandma after she made him a sweater?
A: Gee, you knit?
On this song, with its laid back beat, it sounds like Yukmouth might actually be taking a break from dissing other rappers, but on the second verse he goes in on Daz Dillinger pretty hard. It's entertaining to hear him getting progressively more angry as the track progresses.
This beat is great, it sounds like music Italian mobsters would be listening to as they make decisions about their crime enterprises (if Italian mobsters listened to rap). Young Dru and Yukmouth's verses are both clean, songs with "mob" in the title tend to always be good for some reason.
All Out War Volume 3 came out at the beginning of 2006 and is probably the weakest of the trio. The beats, which had previously been amazing, are pretty boring on this volume; they sound very East Coast-inspired, unfortunately. By this time Yukmouth and The Game had settled their beef and Game appears on a track here to solidify that everything is cool between them. So The Regime goes back to taking jabs at G-Unit, especially Spider Loc, in volume 3 after an altercation Yukmouth and Spider Loc had at a club where Yukmouth got his chain snatched.
Hilarious diss of the album: "fuck a G-Unit Crip, you a G-Unit bitch, wearing pumps and lipstick, sucking G-Unit dick" -Yukmouth, speaking on Spider Loc.
This song right here is the real highlight of the album:
This beat is enormous and sounds super-ultra-mob-hardbody-as-fuck and Gonzoe's opening verse is ridiculously gully. Yukmouth's verse is dope too, but Tha Realest sort of kills the momentum with his third verse (via trying to sound like 2Pac as much as possible).
It's worth noting that shortly after the release of these mixtapes Yukmouth began complaining about being on the Rap-A-Lot Records label, claiming he was not able to do any other projects outside of the label, but these mixtapes were done without any involvment of Rap-A-Lot as far as I can tell, so I don't really understand that argument. In 2008 he released his last album on Rap-A-Lot, Million Dollar Mouthpiece, and has been independent since.
From what I can gather these albums sold really well for mixtapes (remember when people paid money for mixtapes?) and definitely raised Yukmouth's national profile. When I lived in North Carolina he was the only rapper my friends/coworkers had heard of from the Bay, besides E-40, and the only reason they knew his name was because of the beef he had going with G-Unit.
Check out some of these mixtapes if you like what you hear, tons of quality music across five discs, especially volume two.
If you are an unknown rapper I highly recommend you diss Yukmouth, because if there is anything to take away from these albums it's that Yuk loves to beef with other artists and becomes a much better rapper when there is someone to talk shit about. Free promo for yourself and good Yukmouth music, it's a win-win!
Also if you like angry white people music (specifically 90's metalcore) then you should check out the band All Out War too, they are pretty rad!
Have you listened to these albums before?
What did you think of them?
Do you think an official Regime album will ever come out? What do you think of my new sweet tat?
If you follow HD's music at all then you know his trademark adlib is "smack smack," which is supposed to represent the sound his gun makes as it is being shot at you. If you are not familiar, here is a song with tons of "smack smack" adlibs in it:
L'Jay is using the term to represent having sex with a woman on this track from what I can gather from the chorus:
you think you're used to used to these types of guys, but I'm fly I'm fly let's get high and smack smack, in the club smack smack, throw it up smack smack, double stacks smack smack, it's where it's at
It's a rather cryptic chorus, could he be referring to shooting people as well? That would add a rather intriguing and dark spin to this club jam...
L'Jay is a singer that has been hanging around Livewire lately and is notably for having huge music notes tattooed on both sides of his face. If that does not represent the phrase "poor life decision" I don't know what does. Unless he is capable of growing a thick beard, he should probably get used to hearing the phrase "I'm sorry, we are not hiring at this time" when he realizes there is no money in the music industry.
According to his bio he has a five octave range and can hit a high G, which means absolutely nothing to me. I wish him all the best, the song above is pretty damn catchy. I leave you with another dope Shady Nate and L'Jay collaboration to view. L'Jay has a dollar bill sewed into his shirt in it, before changing into a three-piece suit. So stylish!:
Who does this L'Jay guy think he is?
Do you think HD is upset L'Jay just stole his trademark phrase?
Does "smack smack" more closely resemble the sound of a gunshot or sex?
Should I get a tattoo on my cheek of a guy hunched over staring into his computer screen?
