Black Hippiz - Life Sex Death is a hood classic among many Flint rap albums. Yet this has been the most overlooked album to have come out of Flint, Michigan. The album has some unique sound to its own right due to the production. Think electronic music meets gangsta rap and ghetto tech. Only it’s not electro rap from the 80s. Overall the lyrics represents hardcore gangsta rap from the streets.
Thugz Get Drug has some futuristic sounds due to the foley and sound effects used such as a UFO ship and cell phone beeps. This song is a Black Hippiz and Selby Hood posse cut with 5 different people featured.
Gargamel discusses how he is a madman in a whole full of crack babies in garbage cans. He is the real deal pimp who fucks hoes high and low. He goes knee deep in the back of a jeep. Most niggaz want to be part of the dope game, but couldn’t hang when selling large quantities of cocaine. Stay true to the game.
Being in the drug game is not an easy task. It comes with difficulty. You always have to be on your toes to look out for the Task Force.
Fuck My Baby Momma deals with the usual baby mama drama people who live in the hood experience. Only difference is the song uses an array of sampled songs such The Isley Bros. - Between The Sheets, Boogie Down Productions - The Bridge Is Over, Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Starting Something, Michael Jackson - Human Nature, and Notorious BIG - Big Poppa.
The phone rings at the very beginning of the song. It’s Gargamel’s baby momma. By initial response, he reacts towards her in a disgusting rude manner. He reacts by saying “Tell her fuck her and her damn baby.”. He proceeds by saying “Fuck my baby momma!”.
Stupid ass trick. 9 months ago she used to be up all on his dick. Stretch marks are showing on her vagina. Now she’s acting like she got clout. Gargamel shanked in her the stomach and mouth. Gargamel caught his baby momma slipping at the corner store. She was out to buy some zig zags with a dime bag in her purse. Gargamel starts seeing visions of a hurst.
Back to reality. It could have been a tragedy but he didn’t choose to go that route. Fuck a blood test. That’s what you get for trying to play out Gargamel. He knows it’s not his baby.
The track LSD is pretty much self-explanatory. LSD is short for Life Sex Death. Life, sex, and death are what leads to paths of destruction for humankind. The song explains the life of a criminal. It’s a Gargamel solo. The track uses acoustic sounds warped with funky bass. Most of the beats stand out perfectly. The beats are not too thin or too thick.
You can’t see Gargamel as it’s so dark. Blood drips on his Converse chucks as he walks through the park. He stepped into the streets and almost got run over by a hurst. Lights shine on his all red Converse chucks. He wants himself a bitch can’t seem to love you fucking hoes. Rainbows in the dark are kind of like the sunshine. Putting in work (doing crime) is what Gargamel is known for.
He sells bags of those Black Hippiz Funk (marijuana) mixed with the wicked shit. Someone one Gargamel had a dispute with in the past blasts a shotgun towards him. Gargamel comes up with a plan to slit this person’s throat using a piece of broken glass.
Clearly Gargamel is in so much pain to the point where he asks anyone to take him out of his misery. Today he was mad as fuck. Feeling so disgusted. Who can he trust? He knows can’t trust himself. Gargamel is showing signs of distrust in himself in the these lyrics. For example, “Who can I trust?/I know I can’t trust myself” Everybody he knows is dead. Now he’s the only one left. The trigger is pulled on the glock and now his head falls apart. His life is filled with darkness. Now he is being carried to the graveyard. That’s you get for trying to behave hard.
Now back to reality. He sits alone in the park. As he sits alone in the park, he sees the colors in the back of his mind. Rainbows in the dark. It’s so dark he can’t see what’s in front of him. He doesn’t know what’s next for him. Is it life, sex, or death? How much time does he have left?
A cap is off a whiskey bottle indicating Gargamel is either drunk or is drinking away his pain. Either way, the whiskey gets drunk. Damn. He stepped on a bottle of OE (Olde English). It’s on ’til the break of dawn. It’s Sunday morning and he is mourning because his homie got shot the other morning.
Gargamel claims himself as a Selby Hood Original (Selby Hood OG). He’s down with the Black Hippiz. Cutt, Gargamel, Broomstic, and Cheese can’t be fucked with.
The Joint has a laid back chorus with a mellow vibe. The song is perfect to blaze up a blunt to and get stoned. Although Cutt & Gargamel do rap on this song, it was Broomstick from Selby Hood who wrote this song. He was the ghostwriter for many Black Hippiz songs and Selby Hood songs. Gargamel is a sick individual.
The track Evil is driven with heavy bass that will rattle your speakers and possibly destroy them if set at a loud volume setting. The song discusses how evil is good. What stands out the most is the bass and percussion. It is wicked shit!
I Want My Cut is not a posse cut unlike the other songs that are on this Black Hippiz album. It is a solo performed by Cutt.
City Slickers is a Black Hippiz posse cut with Cutt & Gargamel. Cutt wrote the entire song. This cut is a slow tempo driven cut ridden with heavy percussion and loud volume.
I rate this album, Life Sex Death, 4/5****!
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