Old rappers. They’re a tricky topic. On one hand, you respect them deeply and cherish their earlier catalogue. On the other, there’s always a sense of them holding onto to past glory and not really evolving. In general, I’d say there are two ways new music by old rappers go. It’s either stale and feels like they did it just to get a check/stay relevant OR it surprises you and gives you a familiar feeling that you haven’t felt in years. They are able to capture why they were so impactful in first place.
Here we have a new song by Mobb Deep. Produced by the Alchemist. Both these names , to me, are a good thing and when coupled together, even better. It’s been a while since I heard Mobb Deep together. I don’t know what Havoc has been up to but Prodigy has quietly been putting together a run of good music over the last few years. Thanks to Alchemist , who is basically the go to producer for both new and old talent still making boom bap type shit.
So, here we have “Biology”. Check it out
What do you think? Do they still have it or are they ready to be taken out back? Or, perhaps, not everything is black and white in the world and this fall somewhere between those two things. Vote and lemme know… (You can pick more than one answer, btw)
what did you vote blockhead? I think “it’s okay” is the one
I voted “Its not a game changer…”
What do you think about LL’s new song?
http://m.soundcloud.com/llcoolj/tell-tha-world
When my sister sent it my way, I was hoping it would be on some “Mama Said Knock You Out…comeback shit”, but, it’s aiight. Could be much worse
Mobb Deep put out a whole new record earlier this year:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infamous_Mobb_Deep
It’s so so, and was messily/confusingly packaged with unreleased mid-’90s stuff and a reissue of “The Infamous,” but it was still an album’s worth of new stuff.
Sounds like some slapped together shit.