djchameleon

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"

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

djchameleon

This week I'm going to cover Cory Gunz's Son of a Gun, Danny Brown's XXX, Consequence's Movies on Demand III and Jae Millz's Flood Category 5.

Son of a Gun


This mixtape starts off strong but then begins to slump in the middle. It's one of those mixtapes that has alot of tracks, he has about 25 tracks on it. When I'm listening to this tape by the time I get to the middle, I usually end up stopping it to play something else. Cory is definitely one of the select few from YMCM that is truly talented.

Here are a few of the stand outs from the beginning.

The flow on this track is amazing. I love when he drops verses like this. Some people don't care about speed when it comes to flow but the way that he delivers his lines just are acoustically pleasing to my ears.
Speed


The beat on this track sounds like something that the Wu would use.
This track is worth a listen for the beat alone.
Gunz Pop


This is the first track that really stood out to me and I find myself going back to listen to it randomly.
Outta My Mind


Bitch, I'm A Rock N Rolla


XXX

I just can't get behind Danny Brown. His voice annoys me and some of his tracks feel like he's just a Lil B clone with better lyrical skills from Detroit. Everyone is praising him lately because of his original sound and all of that bull**** but no. I don't care about that, if I have to listen to him spit then I have to at least find his voice tolerable and I don't. I forced myself to finish the mixtape even despite this. Near the end of the mixtape were a few songs that I found at least decent. It seems like his better tracks were saved for the middle and near the end. I could hear a distinct switch.






Movies on Demand III

When I finally got around to listening to this mixtape it was a pleasant welcome from the earlier two that I heard. This is a straight quality release and every track deserves praise but I'm going to showcase two specific tracks that I gravitated towards while listening to this. The production is also top notch as well. I need to find more Consequence.

These versions are a bit sped up but when you listen to it from the mixtape, they are nice laid back beats.
Life is For Feat. Mysonne


I've Been About


Flood Category 5

I went into this mixtape thinking that Jae Millz is crap because he's part of YMCM but he proved me wrong. For as much hate as Cash Money gets they do have some decent rappers that haven't gotten their time to shine just yet. Jae Millz's flow reminds me of Jim Jones and he sounds like he would fit nicely into Dipset. The two tracks that I'm going to showcase are more about who he has featured.

I love this track because it features Lorel and I have heard him featured on other tracks from different people but I don't know too much about her. I will have to do more research on her and find out what material she has out.
Doin' My Thing


Well here is a bonus about Lore'l appearently she's a smoking hot puerto rican mami. I have to agree with one of the youtube commenters that her flow does sound like Remy Ma but that's a good thing.


Trae the Truth shows him up on this track and that's probably my main reason for liking this track
Time To Go

__________________

Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.