What up, what up, what the heck's up y'all!? This ya boy Young Denzel AKA the Ernest Newman of the 2020s, ya feel me??? an' we back up in this mothafucka for real yo!! Today we gonna be windin' the tape back a lil' for y'all an' reviewin' that Larry June, 2Chainz joint that dropped 7th February of last month.
Now I was sleepin' hard on this joint cause, yo, life was gettin' mad hectic for a brother, nahmean? Sometimes you jus' gotta step away from the keyboardin' ish n focus on health, wealth, an' knowledge of yaself. But chill b, this top notch rap reviewer ova here ain't been jus' sittin' on his laurels eatin' grapes n' shit, NAWWW, I been cookin' up more dope ish for all y'all lil internettin' cats to vibe wit' on here.
So we gettin' into this joint, an' the homie Alchemist (Alc 4 short) laced this here tape, so I'm gonna be holdin' ALLLL these cats to a higher typa standard, namsayin'?! I mean, Alc the guy they been sayin' is anotha Pharrell, or Dr. Dre, or sumthin' like that. Aight, I done ran my fool mouth long nuff, let's jump into this here ish.
An' while I'm at it, whattup to that brotha Ebreezy, I see you out there doin' ya thang, congrats on the last video review n shit, that breakdown was TIGHT homie, word is bond, you was TIGHT! A brotha gonna be donatin' once he start makin' dollas like Eric Sermon, ON ME!! Peace n' one love!
Munyon Canyon - This startin' out aight. The beat tight, it jus' kinda floatin' in there. This thing kinda soundin' like a Denzel Curry typa beat off "Melt My Eyez" or sumthin'. Larry's verse aight, son don't rhyme much but he makin' up for it wit' emotion. 2Chainz on an aight tip, but then comin' outta his mouth wit' a bar like "I'm on another tier like a crybaby". Ayo son, what the hell I keep tellin' these rappers?! These lame ass puns ain't takin' y'all NOPLACE!
Othawise, dope intro.
Beats - 8/10
Lyrics - 6/10
14/20
Colossal - 2Chainz displayin' every damn reason I ain't never been too keen on this brotha up in this song. He scratchin' the surface of lyricism, but he ain't THERE yet. I mean, he kinda like a video of fireworks on the screen. You ain't lyin' if you say that's fireworks, but still it jus' AIN'T the same as ACTUAL real live, honest-to-goodness-sakes fireworks blowin' up in ya face. I mean, lemme try n' explain this shit here best I can for y'all. Tryna think up anotha rapper who be rappin' 'bout hoes n' drugs n' shit like 2Chainz is doin', but actually doin' it lyrically well...........AIGHT. I got it. My homie Kurupt. Kurupt be rappin' on the same typa shit 2Chainz rappin' 'bout but Kurupt's INTERESTIN'. WHY is he interestin'? Cause he got words that jus' put the image in ya mind, the words Kurupt be usin', you FEEL that ish he talkin' 'bout. I mean, word is bond y'all, when I was a lil' kid n I heard Kurupt's "Tha Streets is a Mutha" tape, I could PICTURE all that mess he was talkin' goin' down in my head. It takes a certain SPARK or KNACK to get that down right, n' some brothas/sistas got it, n' some don't. That ain't no hatin' on the boy 2Chainz, that's jus' how this shit we be callin' "talent" be, namsayin'?
This bar tho', this bar right here, it makin' me mad at this hook: "They asked me, "Where the roof?" I ain't seen it, Hoffa". That bar's played out, b. Rappers BEEN rappin' 'bout Hoffa, it's high time to start talkin' 'bout otha kiddies who be vanishin'. Amelia Earheart, Bermuda Triangle plane brothas, ya tax money. You know, sumthin' creative like that. Word.
This an aight song, but I jus' ain't gonna be able to take it seriously y'all. The beat's tight tho', lovin' the beats so far, word.
Beats - 8/10
Lyrics - 5/10
13/20
I Been - 2Chainz verse here aight. Good. Larry doin' his thing too, this song aight. Then we get to the last verse n' Larry June messes up by sayin' "I got so much, I ain't gon' talk 'bout that". Then this brotha proceeds to tell us he got hisself a palace n a Maybach. Hol' up a hot minute son, I thought you told us you AIN'T GONNA TALK BOUT THAT????? Whateva, chill track y'all. That endin' sample Alc threw in was dope too.
Beats - 8/10
Lyrics - 8/10
16/20
LLC - This track kinda soundin' like sumthin Kool Keith woulda been hoppin' on. It's aight tho', that ain't a diss, jus' sayin' it's kinda structured a lil' bit odd to me. 2Chainz rappin' dope except for a coupla lines here n there that don't hit right. Larry June soundin' dope when he basically recitin' free verse n' for whateva reason, that free verse be actually soundin' kinda hard on a lotta these tracks, even if you don't be feelin' that style, gotta give homies his props.
Beats - 8/10
Lyrics - 7/10
15/20
Bad Choices - We got a kinda aight verse here from 2Chainz, but we got the bars like "This track oughta wake 'em up, call it Folgers". Larry June got dope lines tho', this guy soundin' like he jus' havin' a casual conversation wit' ya which is dope. I could jus' relax listenin' to son's voice. The whole track basically not quite 'bout bad choices, n' how even tho' these two cats made them, they rich now. Typical fare so far.
Beats - 9/10
Lyrics - 7/10
16/20
Life is Beautiful - This beat so dope y'all. The beat tape for this ish oughta jus' be released independently. Larry June's flow on this so immaculate y'all. Oh gosh. 2Chainz jus' come in wit' "It's a cold world, Jermaine wearing a mink" n' ruined that effect. That one corny ass bar there stoppin' me from fully gettin' into the song. It's like a piano key bein' pressed in the wrong place, nahmean?? Dang, dope track but yo, can sumbody start ghostwritin' for this 2Chainz?! Damn!
Beats - 10/10
Lyrics - 9/10
19/20
Generation - This beat dope y'all. Soundin' like it gonna be good to jog to or sumthin'. 2Chainz spittin' some kinda deep shit 'bout how drug rap messes up people's lives, especially kids, then proceeds to rap 'bout how high he is. I dunno if that's son's way of makin' a point of what, but that mess confusin' me y'all. Then we got what gotta be the worst line he done spit so far "This Glock 19, it can barely drink". Meanin' the Glock 19, is 19 years old, n'........y'all, that shit lame!
Larry June's verse kinda better, but the flow here at some points kinda fallin' off. This one jus' ain't hittin' quite y'all.
Beats - 9/10
Lyrics - 5/10
14/20
Any Day - Larry June startin' out here. He got an aight verse, I vibes wit' it. The 2Chainz line for this song gonna be "I was gettin' top like top of the morning". An' the rest of the day to yaself n' ya corny lines brotha.
Beats - 8/10
Lyrics - 7/10
15/20
Epiphany - Not gonna lie y'all, 2Chainz dropped an actually dope rhyme in the hook here that got me wishin' I'd come up wit' that line myself:
"I'm a rich nigga with benefits
Break your heart, ribs, hundred dollar bills and ligaments"
That goes to show son ain't ALL the ways corny, he sumtimes be comin' out wit' jewels like that shit right there. Ouch.
Then he cancelled that bar out by sayin' "Had her on more E than Tennessee".
Word is bond y'all, I spat out my drink laughin' when I heard that bar.
That Larry June verse ain't really doin' anythin', but I ain't mad t it either. This an aight song, it's kinda got a bit of dopeness to it, an' 2Chainz stole the show wit' that "Break your heart, ribs, 100$s n' ligaments" bar. Fire right there n' then, if son was rappin' the whole album like he was right there, we wouldn't have got much to be whinin' 'bout. Word!
Beats - 8/10
Lyrics - 7/10
15/20
Tru Organics - Larry's verse here dope, n' it actually got summa that feelin' to it, the hook to. This thing really dope n' soulful so far. I'm lovin' it. 2Chainz also got an aight verse here, a coupla weak bars, but nuthin' worth typin' out here. I vibes heavy wit' this track, the whole thing dope y'all.
Beats - 9/10
Lyrics - 8/10
17/20
Jean Prouvé - Larry June goin' out here sangin' n' stuff. It's aight, kinda soundin' like discount Nate Dogg, but it'll do. 2Chainz got a coupla them corny bars in here "I forget about my ex just like Meh-hi-co". You know, how they be pronouncin' "Mexico" in them fake ass accents summa y'all be usin'. An' this too "Wake up in the afternoon, tell 'em I'm the one like after noon". Otha than that, this track goin' down nice like fine wine. Beautiful closure y'all, love how Alc wrapped this thing up.
Beats - 9/10
Lyrics - 6/10
15/20
Whew. Good. Dang it y'all, that's anotha review in the history books. Let's tally all of this numbers mess up y'all:
169/220
76%
This was all in all an aight tape, very soulful n' deep at points n shit. I gots one problem wit' this thing nahmean. An' that's the fact that these rappers be lettin' the beats do all the work n' carry them. Wit' any other DJ OTHA THAN Alc, this shit woulda been windin' up in the 50s. But cause Alc is producin' here, it's gettin' such a high score. We got two problems here. First off, Larry June the only kid who I know who can barely rhyme n' still sound kinda dope. But that don't ALWAYS be workin', word. You gotta rhyme sumtimes, othawise, you just readin' a narrative, you ain't really rappin'. Y'all remember what we be sayin' R.A.P. stands for round here? "Rhymes And Poetry" my brothas n sistas, MEMORISE that. Then we got 2Chainz tryna see to it that he gotta put at least one corny ass bar on there or else he gonna cursed by the ghost of his late Uncle Simon or sum typa shit like that. Now I ain't sayin' that brotha HAD a dealry departed Uncle Simon, but the way he be droppin' completely avoidable corny ass bars every damn track except one or two got me thinkin' maybe he DOES have a hex on hisself.
Big shoutout to my main man Alc for cookin' up them beats tho'. That summa the most fire an' soulful beats I ever heard of. You given a lil' nobody producer summa that ish we be callin' inspiration, nahmean son? Summa them beats, hell, ALL of them beats, they be goin' down like fine wine, them beats you done put on here is the truth my guy, ON ME!! Aight, that's it for y'all today, I'mma be back wit' anotha review soon, dependin' on if anything interestin' droppin' this Friday. Peace y'all, n One Love!!
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