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of what I THINK he was trying to do on this album. He sounds more in the pocket on most of this one..especially on the spots where he's singing (Third Eye and Mind Control for instance). It reminds me a bit of how Chad got the singing dead right on Ridin Dirty..timing, placement, the stuff he decided to sing vs rap, etc.
It is great to hear young artists improving and figuring themselves out on record. IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE WE ALLOW FOLKS TIME TO DO THAT instead of throwing them down a flight of stairs when they aren't better than the best stuff ever that fits into whatever bucket 'we' try to put them in...
Ridin Dirty again...I remember me and mines being blown all the way away with how much of a better rapper Bun B was from 94 to 96 (Supertight to RD). It was like Bun B had been doing math by hand and showing his work before only to show back up with the expensive TI calculator...its like someone told him he was the weak link and pissed him off.
And yeah...the comparisons to his influences are only natural, but again..we can go too far with it to propel or kill off these newer dudes.
As for Cadillactica, these songs/albums sound like him being him. And sure, that 90s Southern music (Kast, 8ball/MJG, UGK, Big Mike, etc) is clearly a big part of who he is, but I get it and I'm not holding it against him like I may have when I first got my hands on KRIT wuz here around the time I was getting in on Curren$y's crazy run of mixtapes and albums. It is the way life works. And not being able to put where you came from and who you are into your music for fear of being 'called out' for 'biting'...that's not the way this is supposed to work, right? It ain't KRIT's fault that music from the 90s is easier to get to than the stuff MJ and Prince 'bit' off of...
This album works for me..it sounds good in the situations where it is supposed to (good headphones, car, solid house set-up), it sounds obviously 'worked for', the songs sound tied together in a good way without being repetitive, and it sounds like KRIT himself will vouch for these songs years from now. This release is a sign that maybe KRIT has dusted himself off after his struggles through his first Def Jam album experience: putting it together with all of the varied expectations, finally getting it out, getting the hate from the fans, trying to 'redeem' or 'explain' on the mixtapes and interviews following, etc. He could've gone off the rails. Good thing he didn't.
>Cadillactica (Title Track)
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>http://www.fashionably-early.com/2014/10/13/big-krit-cadillactica/
>http://open.spotify.com/track/4N9hyps2Vkkhcu7R06dVKQ
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