(Unexpected Victory) Raekwon Mixtape Review

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A good way to start off the New Year is with some new music, two free mixtapes hit as freedownloads on the first, Reakwons “Unexpected Victory” and T.I.’s “Fuck Da Street Up” I downloaded both. First one I threw on was Chef’s shit, I’ve heard random shit here and there but it’s been on me really that I haven’t kept up with Rae (even though he is one of the forefathers of the drug flow), and a free mixtape ain’t bad, it has a sick line up on the production and has mad features, it has a song in there produced by 9th Wonder called, “A Pinebox Story” a sick beat just like 9th Wonder is known to do over one of those infamous rhymes with no hook and mad bars, he compliments the features really well, it’s the evolved flow, seen from the eyes of an older God, “Goodfellas” is a good example of that, production on that is pretty ill, got those violin sound effects. I’m thrown off track by the next song, it’s got that smooth beat, romantic tip, and I see who’s on the track, yo, CL Smooth. Ha, you gotta hear that track, imma leave it at that. Good one Rae, that shit bangs. Track 7, “That goog good” I’m going to play that track out, that’s the kind of track that gets you ready for your day, he says, “Fly’d up poet” The Chef is definitely on point, the parallels of rap/rhymes as drugs is present, reinvented, stepping his game up knowing that it’s a different and younger generation of listeners, cyber listeners , that download, I’m hearing track 10 (This Shit is Hard) and taken back to the Cuban Linx album and heard that rap style and how it was tapes and c.d.’s and now in 2012 two decades heavy in the game after the innovation of the download and to stay relevant, he is pushing rhymes, the succesful hustler adjusts to the game and handles. YOOO, TRACK 11 (Soldiers Story) on the reflective tip right from the get go, but from the eyes of a teacher, he goes in hard and does one of those flows like from the days with Cappadona and Ghost, the joint begins like this, “From out the rising sun, north/ I max in a loft, writing poetry/ click, clack my brain will go off…” and goes in for a cool minute. Certified BANGER. The track I’m most anxious about is the one called MTV Cribs, hearing a rhyme from Busta on a Raekwon Mixtape is a good way to begin a year, just came on, matter of fact I’m gonna play it back cus that sounded like grown folk rap (never thought I’d see the day I’d say that err.. type that), rewind, press play. “Yo, I welcome ya’ll in my crib, the fortress of I, Self, Lord and Master/ Crystal chandeliers looking like Satellite dishes from NASA/ Yeah, you niggas is bugged/ shoes forbidden in my crib especially on my Alaskan Polar Bear rugs..” and if you listen carefully you’ll hear a shout out to Basquiat. This is good product. The track with Capone-N-Noriega is fire. The Chef baked up a good batch of that bomb with the exception of maybe Face time (track 15), the mixtape as a whole caters to new fans, his regular fan base and to those that might be stuck on the 95 album and maybe to those that only know the myth of “Shallah Raekwon The Chef” , he’s no longer in his early twenties and isn’t trying to sound like he did in 95, he’s a grown ass man that set the precedent for a genre within hip hop, right there from the birth, this is the evolution. “…emotionally frustrated from the paper, no end and no beginning” (Track 16, “Gansta Cazals” Feat Styles P, JD Era, Camouflage) Through the mixtapes up and downs I think the brother made good. Being one of those heads that first heard The Cuban Linx album in 95, I quote “Striving for Perfection” (Only Built 4 Cuban Linx) “I'm not trying to just be, sitting on motherfucking two-hundred thou and acting like I'ma just be a drug dealer all my life, nah son, I got bigger and better plans son…” Yup, bigger and better plans.
(tried listening to T.I.’s mixtape but it carries a different pace than Rae’s I’m burning one giving it a quick lesson, “Fuck Da City Up” we'll see...)
-G.Hop


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