I'm going to start this back up, I finally have internet at my place and it's the weekend so the best time to do my write ups.
This week I'm going to cover Cyhi The Prynce's Royal Flush 2 and Royce Da 5'9" The Execution.
Royal Flush 2
This mixtape is so high quality that I would pay for it. He definitely should have made this his debut album.
I love how the concept of this mixtape is. He breaks it up into four areas.
He describes himself as the Prince of Spades, Hearts, Clubs and Diamonds.
You get the more street stuff under Spades, Hearts of course is for the ladies, Clubs is supposed to be club/dance type tracks
and Diamond is more introspective.
I'm going to post one or two songs from each suit of cards, he also has an interlude to transition to the next suit
and they are like the best interludes, one of them I remember hearing from Coming to America, it has a very tribal beat to it.
Spades:
I really love the whole spades section and it's really hard to just pick two but I will do it anyways.
Bulletproof.
He samples bulletproof from whatever singer's name is and I love how he will stop his rhyme to use her voice for the "bullet" then go back into it.
Thousand Poundz
When I first heard this I was hooked within the first few seconds of this track and it just kept my attention throughout with Pill and Pusha T jumping on the track later on.
Hearts:
Hearts starts off nicely like he's doing tracks for the ladies but by the end of it, he's a straight up douchebag and chicks wouldn't like that **** at all lol.
I'll give you an example of how it starts and the final track of the hearts suit.
New Girl
Sunday Morning
See it comes off pretty awkward by the way he starts out and then by the end of it he's calling dude's girl easy.
Clubs:
The clubs section is not how I expected it to be. Sure the songs he has talks about being in a club and dancing but the
tracks are just so chill that I would definitely never request or play them in a club atmosphere.
Dance
Fighting In the Club
Diamonds:
I think this section is pretty tied with Spades on how well it was executed but I might give this suit the slightly
better edge for the production. I really love all the smooth jazz samples and horns used in it.
Woopty Doo
Beautiful Mind
The Execution
The Execution comes across as one of those mixtapes that takes a few tracks from an album mixed with a few unreleased tracks or older tracks from other works but it's Royce so you can't go wrong with these songs. They also have alot of features from Slaughterhouse members and other artists.
Writer's Block.
This song was so good that he made an official video for it.
This song is actually a Joell Ortiz track that they put on Royce's mixtape but it's still a hot one and one of the stand out tracks.
Fabolous, Lloyd Banks & Royce Da 5'9"
Remember The Titans
I wanted to show off just Royce's verse since he has the best verse off of that track. Remember the Titans is actually a Joe Buddens track featuring Fabolous, Lloyd Banks & Royce Da 5'9"