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"wuz here" and "r4e" were definitely two of my favorite free albums to ever drop, and k.r.i.t went in on pretty much all the mixtapes/freestyles released before those two...but THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE!?!?! right now, to me anyway, krit is, to quote meth', "...the sharpest muhfucka with the beats, with the rhymes..."
i'm not from the south or anything, but there's a certain pride when krit can not only channel legends like pimp c and 8ball/mjg, but has enough style to make that space age music his own. especially because in the northeast where i grew up, when i was a 90's baby, that southern music wasn't getting THAT much burn. i mean, there were kids like me and my people who'd jam anything as long as it sounded cool, but then you know, just like there still are, there's the dudes that can't rock with anything that's not a dusty jazz sample over crisp drums. now i love that as much as the next fan, but there's more to this music and its legacy. and i think that's why k.r.i.t is such an important artist...he tells his story, relates it to our respective stories, and weaves it all into this hip-hop. so now that krit is able to bring that real southern sound, contemporized and updated, to the whole world...that's fucking dope to me.
"4eva and a day" man...this is some great goddamn music. dope album, well-mixed and arranged...k.r.i.t outshined himself, i'd say.
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