Monday, January 26, 2009

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Trap Squad Cartel - "Pop Tags"

Trap Squad Cartel are from Dallas. They are called Trap Squad Cartel and they have a song called “Pop Tags” and another called either “Icey” or "So Icey", which you can request at your local radio station. Their mixtape is called On My Grind Vol. 1. The whole thing should be the most generic rap exercise in the universe, yet “Pop Tags” is, uh… completely bewildering and the most exact opposite of tedious.

Basically, I think dudes infiltrated my brain cells since four of the five verses on here are from guys that sound like Lil Boosie, Fabo + AutoTune (yes), Gorilla Zoe + Autotune and Gorilla Zoe again. Then on top of it someone cooked up this fucked up beat of Mannie Fresh snare rolls, Trill Ent synth blasts and keyboard drip-drops and this dagger of a sample that sounds like a millisecond snip of the “Still Tippin” violins. The chorus — I POP/ THEM TAGS/ SO THEY JOCK/ MY SWAG — is straight rap-libs shit but it ends up scraping the anthemsphere last entered by “Pop Champagne”.

Then as if it couldn’t get any better, the Gorilla Zoe dude tries to one-up “Wipe Me Down”:
JEWLERY, GEAR, NOTES
CHECK
MONEY, WHIP, HOES
CHECK

He fails of course, but only barely.

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4 Comments:

Blogger Asher said...

Then as if it couldn’t get any better, the Gorilla Zoe dude tries to one-up “Wipe Me Down”:
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He fails of course, but only barely.


So for those of us who aren't totally on inane dirty dirty rap's dick, it's not as good as a really bad song. No seriously, it's okay, but I find 'Own Step' much more anthemspheric.

11:03 PM  
Blogger David said...

own step is better but this is pretty good considering

12:12 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yeah 'still pretty good considering' is basically what i was going for except switch out good for great. then again i do really like the idea that new rappers are taking ideas and inspiration from dudes like boosie and fabo and on top of it are still able to make it identifiable.

12:58 AM  
Blogger David said...

yah its great but they should have a track called 'swagger hood hustle grind icey mane gucci shades trappin'

1:51 PM  

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