Mann & Y.G. are nemeses, ex-jerk rappers fighting to see who can appropriate 90s hip-hop LA classics to better ends. They are probably the most popular 20-year old rappers in the city without a skateboard. Both have graduated from Candyman rap into the G-Funk era (radio edit). Y.G. recently snatched “Bitches Ain’t Shit.” Mann plunders “Nuthin But I G Thing.” I’m waiting for the rapper that will artfully pilfer “The $20 Sack Pyramid.” After all, weed and writing salaries are the only things that haven’t seen any inflation since 1992.
Neither of these songs will make you put down your Curren$y, Gibbs, or Danny Brown, but they are catchy Los Angeles radio rap. Middle school kids need dance songs too and not every generation gets the Soul Train or “Scenario” it deserves. Both have ways to go before they supplant “Rack City” as the greatest song of all-time to tell a woman to cover herself with a poncho.
