This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review Underground Impact - Trapped In Da Hood.
Established underground Pittsburgh hip hop/rap Tyrone Williams (yes FlyTy) produced a single for Pittsburgh hip hop duo Underground Impact in 1993 for Out Cold Entertainment. Gangsta rap meets the hip hop sound on this single. Underground Impact proves to have a powerful impact on their listeners for their only single. Underground Impact was Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Trapped In Da Hood deals with daily life, crime, and entrapment in a living in a low class neighborhood. Although Trapped In Da Hood mainly deals with entrapment while in a living in a low class neighborhood, it also about daily life in a low class neighborhood. Being trapped in a cycle of poverty and entrapment is traumatizing. Trapped In Da Hood proves to have a powerful impact on listeners.
At the beginning of Trapped In Da Hood, a siren is heard eventually being accompanied by a beat. News anchor Tyrone Dupree reports live from a housing project in Pittsburgh where earlier that day there was a driveby shooting. A 12 year old boy was shot as he tried to escape from the gunfire. Authorities nor community leaders have answers. People were shocked by the sudden wave of driveby shootings in the neighborhood.
Police brutality is an everyday reality in this neighborhood and housing project. Homicide is also an everyday reality in this neighborhood and housing project. Crime is also a daily reality here. Everyday you have to watch your back. According to FBI statistics, there are over 12,000 crime related deaths of African American males between the ages of 12 to 25 each year. They are excluded from a society that doesn’t want them.
Underground Impact proves to have a powerful impact on their listeners on the track Powerful Impact. Powerful Impact has a tight dope hip hop sound. In fact, hip hop is what Underground Impact is all about.
I rate this single, Trapped In Da Hood, 4/5****.
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