Back when it was Dre day and the West Coast was nothing but a ‘g’ thing, Compton’s Most Wanted was straight checkn’em, E-40 was doing it in a major way, and DJ Quik was just way to funky, Killa Cali could just do no wrong with their newly birthed g-funk. Yet, that was over a decade ago and any successful gangsta rappers still making good music on the left coast have gone back to the drawing board and reformulated.
Just don’t tell that to Crenshaw BLVD’s Lil-Take-It EZ. One listen to his “Suwoo Mixtape Vol.1” and it is readily apparent that EZ didn’t get the memo that poorly executed g-funk didn’t work in 1994, much less 2004. “You Ain’t Never Heard A Freestyle Like This/Suwoo” is not only terribly named, but terribly performed. The beats are dated and the rhymes are just so predictable and unoriginal. Can you really expect anything else from a mixtape with songs like “Gangstaz Ho”? The only thing worse than the songs are the interludes, “Who Put This Shit?” is so bad it is actually kind of bizarre to listen to. I just sat there asking myself if I was really hearing that, Tony Montana is spinning in his grave.
I’m not convinced Lil-Take-It EZ can’t make a decent album, he just needs to do a few things. Rap over production that wouldn’t have sounded bad even 10 years ago. Rap about something that hasn’t been talked about 1000 times, by 1000 people, done a 1000 times better. And the name, good lord, the name…
2/10
