Brotha Lynch Hung is easily one of 100 Grand on My Wrist's favorite rappers of all time and he recently released his first song and music video off the forthcoming Mannibalector.
Here are my academic notes on the video:
- LOL at the video starting off with a Strange Music advisory that is like "we wanted to censor this video, because it is too edgy, but we DIDN'T, so, like, prepare yourself!" I am frightened...
- OMG there is a woman tied up AND fake blood?!?! They should have warned me more at the beginning, I can't handle this!
- Brotha Lynch has crazy eyes that make me feel very uncomfortable.
- The rapping on this song is really tight. Is it just me or do rappers in general rap slower than they used to? Brotha Lynch has always had an above-average-speed rapping that sounds great.
- This video had over 100K views on youtube after only two days. That is awesome and proof enough that Brotha Lynch moving to Strange Music was a good move. Before signing with them he was putting out horrible bootleg mixtapes that were universally hated and now he is getting more national attention than ever before.
- I feel bad for the video girl who had to be tied up and covered in fake blood. I imagine her agent/boyfriend was like "Good news! You are going to be the star of this popular rappers' next video!" And then she got to the video shoot and immediately recognized this was not going to be a good time, but was like "well this coke habit is not going to pay for itself!"
- "Fans" of Brotha Lynch like to complain about the beat selection of his albums since signing on with Strange Music, but honestly they sound like a more polished version of what he was working with before signing with them. Let's just thank the Lord he is not rapping over cheesy electric guitar beats like Tech N9ne
- This song is rad as fuck and I like it a lot. At the same time I fully appreciate that this type of music will not be some people's cup of tea and if so, congratulations! You are a normal, well-adjusted individual! Have fun not being a fuck up in life.
Mannibalector drops February 5th and is the conclusion to the trilogy of albums telling some dark story that I have not really followed at all (concept albums are for gross nerds that look like this). When you were a kid listening to Pink Floyd weren't you always just like "I don't really care about this deep and meaningful album concept, I just want to hear some sweet jams." That is how I feel about the last two Brotha Lynch Hung albums and hopefully the new one has less skits and more rapping about eating people.
What do you think of this song/video?
When you saw it were you all like:
Are you excited to hear Mannibalector?
Is it just me or is Mannibalector really difficult to spell?
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I am much more stressed by his teeth than his eyes.
ReplyDeleteDo you think he's still genuinely enthusiastic about doing chopping-up-and-eating-people tracks at this point in his career? Does he sometimes look wistfully at a DJ Khaled megamix and think to himself, man, I really just want to rap about this beemer I just bought and chicks that I only eat in a euphemistic sense?
I think he is a genuinely depressed, paranoid, and fucked up individual who does not have it in him to make rap songs about his European whip.
DeleteEven though it is not really good for him, I appreciate the fact that he has not switched up his style and content over the years.
It's possible Brotha Lynch/Strange Music bought views, no? 100,000 in two days sounds like a lot a lot!
ReplyDeleteDope song.
Yeah this song wasn't too bad, just kind of long. I know 5 mins was the average length for a song in the 90s but now it's rare a solo song has 3 verses.
ReplyDeleteRe: the strange production being a polished version of his old phonk beta beats. They all sound very flat to me, I think they are polished to a point of losing the style, or the "soul" of the old sound. You also have to take into consideration that, it's an old sound. It's really dated these days and even if you do your best to capture that era, it will always feel forced. Lynch needed/needs innovation of the old sound to bring it into the modern days.
I think Nick Peace would have been able to capture that a few years ago, I don't think he's actively producing anymore tho. He started a remix/rework series last year and kind of forgot about it halfway through it lol.
Honestly not looking forward to this album, I'm already cringing thinking abut the Hopsin & Yelawolf collabs on it.
I don't think the phonk beats had much soul. To me phonk beta production was holding lynch back. The best stuff he did by far was his first couple albums which he did before he met beta. Anyone else with me on this?
DeleteHis first two are definitely his best imo.
DeleteI agree with a lot of what's been said here in the comments section. I loved the production on Loaded, but i'm not sure how it would work in 2012, and i'm not a fan of the production work on this track either.
He is a good rapper but the horror schtick is a bit tired and i just don't see where he can go atm
I'd like to see less blood and guts and more gangster shit... not sure if he could pull it off as much, cause he's not active like that, but the horror gimmick gets old. Too bad, because from a lyrical standpoint lynch is just killing shit...
ReplyDeleteHorrible bootlegs?? Are you Fuckin stupid? Season of da Siccness and 24 Deep were iconic rap albums and what put him on the map. His new cd is dope as fuck dont get me wrong but his old shit kills what hes doing now.
ReplyDeleteCalm yourself. I was talking about the shit he was putting out in the years leading up to signing with Strange Music: Snuff Tapes, Gas Station, The Fixxx, etc.
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