Curren$y - This Ain’t No Mixtape (Album Review) Late

Curren$y Rant:

I have only recently started following Curren$y, “tha Hot Spitta,” after his past two mixtapes. He has what he describes on the track Galaxy as a “mild tone’ flow and it doesn't change much from song to song; you either like him a lot or you don’t like him at all. He has a lot of fans who all feel he is the best in the game. So, when I first heard him I had my expectations built up to hear some ridiculously different shit from the dude. However, on my first listen I didn't immediately feel him and brushed it off as misguided respect. I thought he had a really average flow, but once I figured out his style was more of a laid-back lyricism, I started to let him in to the Ipod. He has put out a bunch of mixtapes most of which are solid hip hop gems. Once you get past his low key style you really start to like the dude. He is a quiet, mellow rapper with a lot of intelligent lines that you may miss on initial judgments.

Album Review:

Curren$y’s freshman album, This Ain’t No Mixtape, probably shouldn't even be considered an album. It is exactly like his mixtapes and has no new concepts at all, just slightly improved beats. Still, true Spitta fans have jumped at the chance to purchase his album after having been leaked 7 mixtapes for free. Curren$y’s problem on some tracks is that he will get noticeably lazy with his flow at some points during verses.  Common subjects in his raps are: hitting groupie girls that he gets from rap stardom and also how much better he is than the rest of the rap industry. I feel he is not any different from many other artists in terms of content, but his style and blatant authenticity repackage the common occurring themes into a whole new rap offering. Re-gifting is acceptable in this case. He is very relatable because you can feel he is actually living what he's talking. I think there are a lot of rap fans who are like me and have not figured out what is so good about the dude. My advice for you is: play it over and over, it gets better with every listen OR just simply light up and smoke to it. The best track on here was Food For Thought, it was hot in all aspects: lyrics, beat, and hook. The other hot tracks on this album are: Blown Away, Scared Of Monstas, Elevator Musik, On My Plane, Sail On, Power Button, Food 4 Thought, Galaxy. Although there is nothing out of the ordinary on this release it is more of the same consistent intelligent laid back lyrics fans expect from Curren$y laid over unique smooth hip hop beats, 3.9/5.

01 - The briefing
02 - Get it ya self (feat. Deelow)
03 - Blown away (feat. Deelow & Jean Lephare)
04 - Scared of monstas
05 - Elevator musik
06 - On my plane (feat. Deelow)
07 - 16 switches spitter
08 - The Jets son (feat. Deelow & Jean Lephare)
09 - LOL (feat. Trademark Da Skydiver, Deelow & Jean Lephare)
10 - Sail on (feat. Young Chris)
11 - Got it
12 - Power button
13 - Up here (feat. Young Roddy)
14 - Cook up (feat. Bun B & Deelow)
15 - Food 4 thought (feat. Mickey Factz & Amanda Diva)
16 - Galaxy (feat. Deelow, Jean Lephare & Whodinsky)
17 - Look up at The Jets (Exclusive Hidden Bonus Track)
18 - Top of the money (Exclusive Hidden Bonus Track)
19 - Something like (feat. Street Wiz & Fiend) (Exclusive Hidden Bonus Track)

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