Mixerr Album Reviews #619

This is Michael Mixerr. I will review DA EP by Mad Deep & Mental on MDM Records outta Detroit, Michigan again due to popular demand!
DA EP was released on vinyl on MDM Records in Detroit.

Mad Deep & Mental is a Hip Hop/Rap group of two dudes named Nostra and Young Kami. Mad Deep & Mental is one dope ass underrated Hip Hop/Rap group comin' from the Big D! MDM Records roster was Mad Deep & Mental, Papa Joe, D-Bone, and NHB (Niggaz Handlin' Business).
MDM Records and Mad Deep & Mental started in Detroit in 1993. To this day, Mad Deep & Mental still perform at live shows on the Eastside of Detroit often. When you listen to Mad Deep & Mental, just think old school hip hop meets gangsta rap and acid rap with added bass & drums.


Young Kami is living like a hermit in this world on the dark moody track called Mental Problems. Mental Problems is one sick dark, brooding dope ass track! The heavy pounding notes of the super heavy basslines really give in to the element of darkness that this track really has. Mental Problems is about dealing with the stress, anxiety, anger, frustration of having mental problems. Hence the name.
The thick, super heavy bassline of Mental Problems will remind you The Unforgiven track by X-Raided on his 1999 album The Unforgiven he recorded from behind prison bars at Salinas Valley State Prison in California. Of course the sample used is Cebu by The Commodores. To put it basically, Mental Problems sounds very similar to The Unforgiven track by X-Raided.


The redid remix of Steady Blaze is super dope madd ill! Steady Blaze is a song to blaze up a smoke to and light up another doobie. It's all about smoking that purple kush. Steady Blaze is a 420 song. So please don't get this shit all twisted! Okay? The remix of Steady Blaze is super dope!
Steady Blaze samples Cebu by The Commodores. Steady Blaze is also a lyrical freestyle filled with classic rap. The DJ scratches and breakbeats are super dope! Sick!


Champagne, Caviar & Bubble Bath is about the finer things in life. Such as the riches in life. Mad Deep & Mental idolize the bling-bling often glamourized in gangsta rap. Mad Deep & Mental are really desperate! So they start to strive for the finer things in life on Champagne, Caviar & Bubble Bath. Champagne, Caviar & Bubble Bath was the Detroit Anthem at one time! Back in the 1990s rap era.

Mad Deep & Mental were so underrated and overlooked back in the days! It's too bad they never got the shine that they truly had deserved. DA EP was the precursor the full album that came out on cassette after this vinyl.
I rate this EP, DA EP, 5/5*****!!