i just listened to Curren$y's new album "Muscle Car Chronicles". This is the first Curren$y album i didnt love right away. the beats were strange for Curren$y, which is okay because they were cool, but i feel like Curren$y didn't a do a good job at adapting to a new style of production. not only that, but some of the songs were less than 2 minutes long, and it was only 9 songs long, so it was a really short album. sometimes Curren$y sounded really awkward over the beats, like on "Strangest Life" (which to be fair, wasn't a good beat to begin with). it still had a few songs that were really good. despite the fact that "Fly Out Part Duex" and "Fly Out Part Tres" had the same exact beat (which i should have expected judging by the names of the songs, i guess) they were probably my favorite songs on the album. I feel like the production would have fit the style of a group like M.O.P. much better than Curren$y. but i'm not upset, he still has that album with Alchemist coming out in the Spring. this one was just like... a 5/10 for me.
i also listened to a new Gangrene album "Vodka and Ayahuasca". Gangrene is a collaborative project from producer/rappers The Alchemist and Oh No (who happens to be Madlib's brother). i didn't expect them to release another album after Gutter Water, but this one was really good. the production was just so weird and different that it kind of blew my mind. that's basically why you listen to Gangrene, because The Alchemist and Oh No are amazing together as producers. but i also feel like they improved a lot lyrically. even though they had some pretty huge guest appearances like Kool G Rap, Prodigy from Mobb Deep and Roc Marciano, they still were able to hold down the album mostly by themselves. i can't really describe it... i just really really really like this album. 9/10
AdultSwim.com is part of Turner Entertainment Digital which is part of the Turner Sports & Entertainment Digital Network.
