got this yesterday, i'd heard a few of the tracks already (leaked, promoed and when i was in the studio with bun - ooh, get me!) and i thought this was going to be good, but it's much, much better than that. most importantly i'm pretty sure it's not just that obsession everyone gets with a new record - this one has some legs and the thrill will last a while.
starts off with a real spoofy inauguration of bun as the "new president of the south" including the line "what happened in new orleans never going to happen again", so it's totally current and in touch with what's going on in the south as well as being totally flamboyantly gangsta and bouncing like a motherfucker.
there's a ugk track on it and a mddlfngz cut, too, but the best of the lot are i'm fresh feat. mannie fresh, draped up (semi-screwed like still tippin', verses in regular speed and lil keke's chorus from pimp the pen slowed and chopped as the hook, the h-town allstarz mix of this track features just about the whole of houston on it, too, with the best turns by chamillionaire and chingo bling, who's funny and raps in spanish) and trill recognize trill feat ludacris (by far the best production on the whole album).
it dips into slower, more understated territory in the middle for about four songs, but then kicks it up again with i'm a g feat. T.I., which is pretty great, too. the producers include mannie fresh, the medicine men (formerly beats by the pound), cool and dre, mr lee, lil jon, jazze pha so the instrumentals are uniformly solid but as far as i'm concerned bun has the best flow in all of hip-hop right now, definitely in the south.
i'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts, because i think this is really something else.
starts off with a real spoofy inauguration of bun as the "new president of the south" including the line "what happened in new orleans never going to happen again", so it's totally current and in touch with what's going on in the south as well as being totally flamboyantly gangsta and bouncing like a motherfucker.
there's a ugk track on it and a mddlfngz cut, too, but the best of the lot are i'm fresh feat. mannie fresh, draped up (semi-screwed like still tippin', verses in regular speed and lil keke's chorus from pimp the pen slowed and chopped as the hook, the h-town allstarz mix of this track features just about the whole of houston on it, too, with the best turns by chamillionaire and chingo bling, who's funny and raps in spanish) and trill recognize trill feat ludacris (by far the best production on the whole album).
it dips into slower, more understated territory in the middle for about four songs, but then kicks it up again with i'm a g feat. T.I., which is pretty great, too. the producers include mannie fresh, the medicine men (formerly beats by the pound), cool and dre, mr lee, lil jon, jazze pha so the instrumentals are uniformly solid but as far as i'm concerned bun has the best flow in all of hip-hop right now, definitely in the south.
i'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts, because i think this is really something else.
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