Another project released from someone in the Y.L.E (young lords era) camp. This time from cooly macloud a artist who was on $wace mixtape on the song memrios of the young and frass. Ironically this mixtape not only came out first but that is where $wace got the whole memoirs of the young and ... since cooly next big project (after the under construction series ) is memoirs of the young and sober. Anyway on with the review like the last one this will be totally unbias. We first start off with the song my thoughts and its good opener for a project like this.Really emotional next two songs are best rapper alive and children of the world.Now like 20% of mixtape is freestyles it cant really be judged in the same way as a song can be judge but however being an artist myself i can try to critique it as well. This song (off the bitch don't kill my vibe beat )is a hard hitting word play focus freestyle. Children of the world he seems to talk about the flaws of the youth and here arise a big problem of this project. His production value is lacking making the first words said hard to make out and inaudible (no $wace pun attended)but it changes and goes back to normal and finish the song with a poem (ala wale). Next is suit and tie freestyle and cooly makes a risky move and talks about sex but with a condom and as underwhelming as that may sound at first think about it.How many rappers(besides KRSone ;jimmy) or even young black men(no pun attended) talk about protection against hiv std and pregnancy. Its rare to hear and not only that cooly does with such confidence and style that it actually sounds cool to wear a jimmy hat. Next is another freestyle on the ali bomye beat featuring $wace and J3tt blizzi. In this song noonne left anything back on this track just straight bars from these 3 rappers. However once again cooly production value is brought up its not as bad but it apparent but cooly lyrics makes up for it. Next is started from the bottom and i have to say this is one of the weakest freestyles on here. Not to say its bad but it seem like it could have been a song instead of a freestyle and because its in a freestyle format it loses value but we do see alil peak with cooly's father issues. Next two songs are worwick ave and tears of fire. Worwick ave (a sample from duffy ) is a story about a boy who wishes for popularity then gets and couldn't handle it. Basically all that glitters isn't gold the song while good story telling is lacking in some parts but not enough to take you out the story just alil predictable. Tears of life is featuring J3tt blizzi and it seem to talk about the importance of rap which is a good concept and a beautiful beat (which a sample from swv)even though the chorus doesn't match the verses. However once again J3tt fucks it up alot with unnecessary aggression it kills the vibe cooly set up with the beat.The words ironically was nice but its more then words with rap and J3tt need to realize and understand that. Next song is the cycle which is a deeper look with cooly's relationship with his father. Unlike most songs that talks about a dead beat dad it wasnt anger but just stating that when you do something it has its repercussion and cooly who is also a father dont want to be the same as his father and he wishes to have a deeper relationship with his brothers on his dad side. A good song with a semi melloncoly feel. Next two songs are pay attention and young black man pt 2. Here's the problem datpiff(the website which hosted the mixtape ) doesn't allow certain instrumentals to be played and downloaded so we cant review them. So the next song is dumb it down and unlike lupe who just shows his lyrical abilities as intelligence cooly uses it to talk about the certain state of hiphop and say because of his underground status hes not gonna get known since he dont do what the mainstream but at the end shows a light of hope . unlike some rappers he his self is not the hope. Next 2 songs are 5 am and choices back then. 5 am kinda sounds like a interlude to dumb it down since it speaks on the same issues but with this freestyle it seems flow was the focus. Choice back then talk about what would happen if his girlfriend ( the main topic on the first under construction) and him never got together. This one of the songs i wish could have been longer i wanted to know what really could have happened if it never i believe if you been with someone for a long time you tend to wonder what would happen if it never came to be. The next song and final song o the project (the outro is basically a credit roll) and its called illest mom alive(i wonder what this song is about ) if you said his girlfriend you would be wrong. In this song we hear cooly thoughts on his mother which is not really that new(2 pac does it ) but it doesn't have to be it. As long as its real and from the heart and it seem real and from the heart make me wonder how bad me and mom relationship is and if a song can do that it most be good
Overall: This is a good mixtape for the backpacker or just the people who like lyrical hiphop . it makes me wonder whats next on the 3rd installment and with not alot of features you can really hear cooly express his self the way he wants i give it an A - it would have been an A but the production while not that bad its still a slight dirstrion on some songs and the fact that this is s short listen which is not entirely cooly's fault due to datpiffs rules but still a solid listen with a combonation of good conespts beat choices and lyrics. and i caught wind that the $wace and cooly collaborated and made a mixtape called sins of the father. the excitement can not be contain as i wonder what would happen if these two ever came together and talk about a common goal :being a father
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