Straight Out The Rich

Ok so R. Kelly Left and Locksmith are The Frontline, two salty yet hungry rappers from Richmond (aka the Land Of Coach Carter) who under the guidance of E-A-Ski have been making some very romantic music. They've had some 12"s floating around and I'd seen them around but I passed them up each time. I didn't really know anything about these dudes and didn't feel like chancing it. Then their song with E-A-Ski, What Is It, started getting some play. It's a cool song but I still didn't cop their shit. Then I hear that Ross Hogg and B-Cause mix with some of their other cuts and then I decided it was time to man up and get their album. After hearing their album I think they went a little soft on the singles. Don't get me wrong the singles are cool but fuck they got some bangers that I would have prefered to hear loud as shit in the club.


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One of the songs that goes hard as fuck is "Playin' With Fire" the beat has some dark tones to it but fuck man the drums on this shit don't fuck around. It's some fucking high school pep ralley stomping on the fucking bleachers clapping till your hands hurt screaming "we will rock you!" Frontline rapping about how you shouldn't try fucking with them cause they don't think you understand what you're fucking with. They got this other cut, "I Got..." featuring San Quinn that also rocks the blownout handclaps with this casio guitar dropping in over the beat. I'm usually suspect of some sythasized guitars but they work it right dropping rhymes about chopping shit up with Willie Brown and how the bay ain't on some punk shit.

Well shit I just noticed something, I started writing this post then stopped and started reading the liner notes of this album. Turns out the 12"s that they released were all produced by E-A-ski while all the other tracks on the album are produced by Left. I like E-A-Ski but I think Left is bringing some harder shit on the beats. E-A-Ski has more shit going on in his beats while Left's beats tend to be more stripped down but Left cranks out some bangers. I don't know how long Left has been making beats but you give this dude some more experience and I think he'll be dropping some heat.

Gangsta
I Got.... featuring San Quinn
Playin' With Fire


I should probably write some more shit about them but that shit above is all I got so far and right now I've been drinking and I'm too tired to give a fuck so screw it, this half ass post is what you get. I'll edit this bullshit up tomorrow for somanyshrimp.