"you ready girl? keepin' it hot. how hot? hotter than a leather jacket when it's 90 degrees. you know we don't sweat. you don't never let her see you sweat. you know just the other day I was talking to a young fella and he told me he said, man - what you gotta do to get through to these ladies today? I said, man - you gotta get 'em ready. you understand? they not ready. And when they ready - you take 'em. you gotta back up everything you say with actions - and that's for real. name's julius cheekbone. in the place to be. with my man denmark vessey. holding it down, but we ain't goin' to hold you up. we just wanna know: ladies - is you ready? the party can begin. julius cheekbone - in the place to be." - "Shit Talkin" featuring "Shannon Fortune" a.k.a. "Julius Cheekbone" (click here to listen to track #20)
The beats are dope (check out #9 "Shame" featuring Scud One here) - and just wait til you hear the emcees come in. Even the tracks that - on a first listen - didn't slay me were still well worth listening to...not something often said in this era of cashed-out radio rap.
Tracks that grabbed me include #2 "Power of Thought" (click here) with its driving beat and flow that I find reminiscent of Mello Music Group's yU, #4 "Crack Babies" (click here) goes hard as does #5 "Murder Raps" (also featuring Scud One, who is producing Vessey's upcoming debut album; click here to listen to this track).
Twenty-one tracks for free (click here to download the whole mixtape - or download individual tracks on SoundCloud here for better audio quality).
Lyrics, alternately criminal-minded and conscious-raising. A complete package. Reminds me of, fellow rapper/producer from the D, Bronze Nazareth, whose cohesion of beats and vocals (and eclectically selected samples combined with intricate sample chopping) gives the heads that dopeness that is the #gullyguerilla mentality.
Don't sleep on stoner anthem #3 "Baked Out," which fades out with the siren RZA sampled for the Kill Bill Vol. 1 soundtrack (listen here or below).
Or Exile produced #16 "Guns In America" (click here) featuring a David Chappelle white businessman flow (bullets and booze is all business, baby), a British accent flow, and culminates in an Arabesque chorus-flow. Gotta check it to dig it.
A final mandatory listen is #17 "Shock of Your Life" (produced by Denmark Vessey) featuring Scud One and Co$$, which features some pretty ill wordplay and lyricism (listen here or above). Oh and #18 "They Schweepy" is sick as well (here or above).
Click here for the Wiki on the leader of a U.S. slave rebellion, Denmark Vessey.
"Brought to you by House Shoes and Dirty Science, one of the newest undiscovered Producer/MC’s out of Detroit, Denmark Vessey comes with his free project entitled “DON’T DRINK THE KOOL AID” with production by Exile, Apollo Brown and more in support of his Debut Album CULT CLASSIC produced by Scud One 11-12-13 on Dirty Science pre-order now here." (Via.)
(Click here to buy the album from Fat Beats, where this image came from.)
Who can mess with Detroit rap these days? Danny Brown, Black Milk, and everybody else from the D . . . R.I.P. J. Dilla. Click here to check out the last post on The People's Poseur featuring Black Milk's new music video double feature "Sunday's Best / Monday's Worst," as well as some of the sounds from Danny Brown and Black Milk's collabo "Black and Brown" - cause it's dope.
My main complaint about this mixtape is the various instances of sexism (just like my only complaint about Detroit's own Bronze Nazareth's debut album "The Great Migration" (2006), is its homophobia). Yeah, it's everywhere in rap and the rest of the world, but that doesn't make it right. Peace, peace y'all.
