August 4, 2009 @ 10:10 am | Written by: J. Tinsley
Young Dro – "Lo Life" (Mixtape)
With the general gone for a year and a day, Young Dro must assume the reigns to the Grand Hustle ship. Hopefully, this ranks as a sign of things to come. With hit records and a successful solo album under his belt, hopefully we see P.O.L.O. more sooner than later. Earlier today, Dro co-signed this mixtape on Twitter. If you’re a fan of Dro’s intricitate, yet entertaining rhyme scheme, adding this to the collection should be a no brainer.
1. Feed Your Soldiers
2. Thank You
3. Go To The Club
4. Fire
5. Got To Know feat. Yung LA
6. I’m On It feat. T.I
7. You Nasty feat. Akon
8. Want That
9. Like A Movie
10. Do Wit You
11. Take Me Seriously
12. Ric Flair
13. Yes Sir
14. Stacks On Deck
15. Let’s Get It
16. So Long
17. History
18. Look Good Today
19. Walk On By
Respect: X
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herbsaac
August 4, 2009 @ 10:33 am
Lil’ Wayne’s ‘The Carter II’ is actually Wayne’s best album. As I scanned over the album looking for a track to do a cross-reference comparison to I looked for songs that had similar lengths to the unusually long tracks posted on ‘Relapse’. I decided to use the track GHOST-WRITTEN by Juelz Santana called Tha’ Mobb.
As a repayment for Santana’s skills on this song I believe Wayne introduced Juelz to syrup.
Wayne uses 853 words in this song. Thirty(30) are polysyllabic. The longest being promethezine clocking in a strong twelve(12) letters. The key number in all of these stats though is the percentage of polysyllabic words to the entire composition. Wayne’s final numbers were 3.5169/1000. That is the percantage of polysyllabic words his verses would contain per 1000 words. Big Daddy Kane averages about the same. Kane is loved and feared, but no one, not even Kane himself, calls him the greatest rapper alive. Hyperbole lives and his name is Lil’ Wayne.
The Eminem song I used is the comically violent 3am. This song had the same run time as Lil’ Wayne’s Tha’ Mobb (5mins 21sec). Eminem uses only 769 total words but forty-eight(48) of them are the 3+ syllable variety. The longest polysyllabic word in this murderous rap rampage was the thirteen(13) letter hallucinogens. Eminem was obviously on something extra to have the mind to craft this masterpiece. The average percentage of polysyllabic words per 1000 for Eminem is 6.2418 and approaching twice that of Lil’ Wayne. My point in all of this is to illustrate that the Relapse album is far from garbage no matter how you look at rap music. It merits your highest consideration for the lyrical content contained therein. And at the end of the day, instead of flow and swagger, shouldn’t lyrics matter most in RAP music?
BTW, Rakim Allah’s percentage on ‘Microphone Fiend’ was 7.272
mos def’s blackstar definition..gets a 5.894
nas’s ether gets 5.489
i gave u proof fatcs and examples..what do u have..and grow up and get some pubic hair….
J. Tinsley
August 4, 2009 @ 11:09 am
Huh?