| MobbDeen: Styles P – The Diamond Life Project… | August 28, 2012 |
Deen don’t shop at Zales. Quiet as kept, Styles P dropped a gem of a mixtape last week. Given that Jadakiss is my favorite member of the LOX and there are only so many hours in a day, I’ve often neglected Styles AND Sheek. In any case, none of them have managed to put a […]
| MobbDeen: Trae The Truth, Z-Ro, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Kirko Bangz & Bun B Are From Texas | August 27, 2012 |
Deen is eighth cousins with Fat Pat. I live in Houston. Don’t try to find me – we don’t play that LL Cool J shit outchea. I’m not a native and I’ve only lived here for a little while, but there’s something special about the music scene here. Special in the sense that it inspires […]
Mobb Deen told you not to go to the Cheesecake Factory and let them girls order cappuccinos and Pumpkin Oreo cheesecake. I ain’t gonna lie; I only downloaded this shit because I’m really digging shorty’s pose on the cover. Sex sells and I’m buying. That cover definitely worked on this consumer and that’s no mean […]
In which Deen plays God. Its been approximately six weeks since I heard and later bought Nas’, Life Is Good. In that time, I’ve probably given the album around 110 listens – top to bottom (makes me wonder how I managed to listen to anything else). It’s safe to say that like most observers, I […]
Deen prefers his Kool-Aid unsweetened. Allow me to be slightly presumptuous and assume that you, the reader, have been reading my posts here. Maybe you may have detected some level of ambivalence in regards to everyone’s new darlings – the Top Dawg Entertainment guys. I’ve read a bunch of complimentary shit about these guys in […]
| MobbDeen: Freddie Gibbs – “Bout It, Bout It” feat. Kirko Bangz… | August 13, 2012 |
Down in Houston, Deen is bout it, bout it. Freddie Gibbs and Kirko Bangz? Interesting and unexpected. But there was something about this combo that initially gave me pause. It’s like — to quote the most quotable rapper ever — “mixing vodka and milk.” * After all, Freddie Gibbs is an unabashed gangsta rapper (versatile […]
This is all Deen knows. Well, that and Tort laws. New day, new Gibbs. What? You thought this song was here for any other reason? It’s pretty solid with or without Freddie aka “Mr. Mush-A-Loud-Mouf-Ho-Out-The-Apartment” Gibbs, but the Gangsta is the star attraction on this smooth cut. This time he runs the gamut from his […]
| MobbDeen: George Benson – “Give Me The Night” | August 9, 2012 |
Deen was and is advanced. I still remember the first time someone asked what kind of music I listened to. I wasn’t quite as much of a music nerd as I am now (I was about 8 or 9), but I already had a pretty cool answer for my age: “all kinds of stuff – […]
| MobbDeen: Trinidad James, Safety Last | August 8, 2012 |
Deen wrote this in a fit of peak. Trinidad James makes one hell of a first impression, so I’ll offer apologies in advance for all the (probably ill-fitting) comparisons I’m about to make. That’s what happens when you don’t know shit about a rapper other than he’s from Atlanta. That cover is ridiculously great. Evokes […]
| MobbDeen: Trademark Da Skydiver – Anxious… | August 6, 2012 |
You say no to ratchets, MobbDeen can’t. This isn’t the best song on Trademark’s latest mixtape, Flamingo Barnes, but it’s the perfect excuse for me to let y’all in on a rap bloggist secret: writing about Bob James’ “Nautilus” is always a good and convenient starting point for a post. I shouldn’t have written that, […]
