When the lyrics give you hope that maybe things might improve for whatever persona G. When the lyrics are mean, the beat is even meaner. Rap in the 90's was loved enough to have many top-notch producers wanting to provide the backdrop to his insane lyricism. Every song seems to tackle one side of the street life without losing its harsh grittiness and realism.Įven though he departed from his DJ and the production was not handled by the Juice Crew, G.
boasting over other rappers claiming they don't stand a chance against him, whether it be in the streets or in a battle rap. Lastly, one of my favorite hip-hop songs of all time, "Let the Games Begin" involves G. A Thug's Love Story (broken into three parts) is an epic journey of a low level gangster who decides to succumb to his desires and sleep with the Don's wife, only to suffer the consequences. The listener is automatically engaged from beginning to end not knowing what's going to happen next. Take for example "Tequila Sunrise." This is a song about a greedy drug dealer who decides that he isn't going to make the deal with a Mexican kingpin but instead goes on a rampage stealing the money and the drugs. Every song feels like it has enough content to make an exciting one-hour X-rated special on television. This is due to the fact that most of his songs have twice the verbiage as most rappers' songs and the lyrics are extremely dense. Rap song is like a goodie bag, because it seems full of stuff that you could unpack with every listen. Sometimes he would just rap about being a terminator-type psychopath who would kill anyone in his way on his quest for riches, royalty and respect.Ī Kool G.
would make songs reflecting in scalpel sharp detail the criminal underworld and those who occupy it, sometimes giving you the perspective of a street thug who was on the run for making a bad move or from a Don who would blast someone's skeleton out of his or her body for spilling a drink on his fresh suit. Since he went solo after that, he assumed a Don persona and laid the groundwork for a lot of multi-syllabic emcees in the 90's, whether they followed in his criminal rap footsteps or not. Rap, KRS-One, and Rakim) spent every album since his debut with DJ Polo becoming more and more hardcore, perhaps peaking with 1992's Live and Let Die. Rap, the dark horse of the Big 4 (Big Daddy Kane, G. Review Summary: One of hip-hop's best lyricists/storytellers taking you on a glorious and equal parts terrifying journey through the underbelly of the gangster life.
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