Mixtape Madness: The Begining (U-N-I)
I was feeling a little left out of the theme post game around here, so I took the iniative and came up with Mixtape Madness.
The concept breaks down like this--there's a whole lotta music out there and absolutely no real way to be on top of the "Next Big Thing" and obviously that is the most important part of being a music fan. So every week I am going to download a random mixtape (preferably from an artist completely unknown to me), give it a few spins, and write about it here.
Now, I went into this project expecting that most of what I'd be doing would be making fun of a whole lot of truly terrible mixtapes and while I still believe this, the first one I picked actually turned out to be...sorta decent.
I don't know anything about U-N-I except that they are from Inglewood, CA and their title (Fried Chicken and Watermelon) caught my attention. It's a bit hipster rappish, but with a nice California flavor (old school, what up?). The beats and the lyrics are solid, but not really overly clever, which only turns me against it because I've been bumping clever shit for so long I forget that other types of music exist. I give the whole effort a solid pat on the back--it got my head nodding enough not to hate, but I doubt I'll be playing it in a month. Still, it's not entirely disposable and that's more than I was expecting from this endeavor. Kudos all around.
The following tracks are the one that caught my attention the most. Despite what I said above, the first has a dope beat and a clever rap game/video game analogy going on. The second is a nice little Wu sample and is for my sneaker loving frenz:
i realize this i a little late but i havent been reading this blog for a while. u-n-i are two dudes that are from nike talk.they are pretty big in to shoes and what not, hence k.r.e.a.m. i believe there is a vid for beautiful day in youtube.