Cheetah in the City

This year has been a very busy one for LA rapper/producer Blu, who has already released a handful of collaboration projects prior to this new Cheetah in the City joint-album with Paris beat-duo Union Analogtronics (OJ & Gold). Crenshaw Jezebel, Open Your Optics To Optimism (his best of the year so far) and Titans in the Flesh all had their forms of substance in their own rights, but for Cheetah in the City, despite some interesting new avant garde electro-sounds, it’s very typical lyrically and in a street sense, as it follows old common rap stereotypes (rarely good now and mostly deleterious) never questioning or moving away from them. Blu raps on dough, hoes, how to bait the second using the first, and other gutter-oriented themes, and he is careful not to sound too obnoxious with it so he can get away with the tomfoolery, but smart ones will see through the blinds. The only worthwhile song is “Factory” because of its message that “we gotta get our minds on something ‘cause it ain’t all about stuntin’ and frontin’” but the rest is unfortunately just a wild beast animalistically doing a number on civilized society.

Blu's in my top 5

It's so dissapointing to see an artist who had such a promising career come out with this. Below the heavens was beautiful. His other projects like amnesia and give my flowers while i can still smell them were great. But now all these projects like good to be home and this. so sad, it seems like he's digresseing...

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