Unless you been under a rock for the last few months, I’m
sure you’ve heard of and heard some 2 Chainz. Just the mention of the name
alone makes you instantly think of his adlib say it with me “2 Chainz !!!!” Numerous
mixtape appearances, features, and numerous feature mixtapes most notably ,
Codeine Cowboy and T.R.U. Realigion . The man has been everywhere, you
definitely have to respect his hustle and his grind. He’s extremely polarizing
people either love him or hate him, not since Soldier Boy and Waka Flocka has
any rappers verses been so scrutinized over the internet, but after a huge
Cosign from Kanye, and rumors of signing with G.O.O.D Music, people suddenly
wanted to see could he deliver on the promise and live up to the street hype on
Based On a T.R.U. Story.
Based on a T.R.U. Story promises to be a polarizing ,
scrutinized album loved by his fans and mixed reviews by everyone else. Lyrically the album is very simple with
extremely elementary, rhyme schemes with a simple flow in the same vain as
artist like Future, Tony Yayo or Flavor Flav. There are some very significant
problems with the lyrical components of the album, its very one dimensional
with lots of repetitive subject matter. Subject range is very limited, usually
covering all of the stereotypical trap rapper subjects. On this offering , 2 Chainz lacks versatility
, it’s the same subjects constantly over
different beats, the same flow , no
challenge, experiments, no new ground broken. He doesn’t go out side of his
self and give us anything he hasn’t already done, he doesn’t even step it up
and do it better. A lot of the
criticisms about 2 Chainz music are going to continue to hold true as the album
lacks creativity or originality, because its stereotypically southern and trap
music, and a lot of the verses don’t
make sense, they tend to lack organization, be random, unfocused, and unorganized bars. The biggest drawback is that most of the
production is just average, sonically most of the songs are cool if you in a
seedy smoky strip club, a hood house
party or club, definitely not for every club or even concert music, basically any environment where lyrics, and
the technical aspects of hip hop and song
making just don’t matter. The Best verses and song saving verses are by the
features, the album chock full of features, everybody hot on the scene, it almost doesn’t seem he can hold it down by
himself, and ends up using features as a crutch, relying on other artist
cosigns to boost his cred. Many times he seems out of place on the tracks with
other artist when he can’t deliver. However standout tracks on the album to check
for are “Yuck!” ft./ Lil Wayne, which
has one of the better verses and deliveries from Chainz, “ No Lie” ft./ Drake, probably the best song
on the album, Birthday song ft./ Kanye West and Ghetto Dream ft./ Scarface
& John Legend.
While 2Chainz is hot in the streets, on his grind and full
of hustle , he needs to work on his
craft, use the hustle and focus it into perfecting his craft. Step his lyrics
and song making skills way up , see the bigger picture because at this rate its
not even music you would want to see performed, neither is it performance
music. The entertainment value is marginal , and replay value low. It doesn’t seem
as if 2 Chainz is ready to be a primary artist, but is better as a featured
artist.
While you can’t hate on him for doing something legal, and
attempting to be creative, it’s just not of high quality at the moment. I rate
Based on a T.R.U. Story 2 stars out of 6 , it could needs work, could be better a and it doesn’t
live up to expectations.
Slin_k
@slin_k_polymath on twitter
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