K Chill - Get Ya Funky Off is one of the more underrated Cleveland rap albums from the 90s that got overlooked due to the success of Bone Thugs N Harmony, Cochise, and Brothers 4 The Struggle. The success of Bone Thugs N Harmony and Brothers 4 The Struggle is what led this album to be overshadowed and overlooked. Adjust your speakers! The bass on this album is heavy. K Chill actually has some pretty decent songs on here. Every song is solid with no filler material.
The artwork for this album is solid for an album from 1993. One could expect more looking from a 1993 perspective. Some of the pictures a presented in a blurry low quality scale. (Only some copies have this issue.)
K Chill tells us a bunch of raw uncut children stories with explicit language on Cisco Kid. He gets serious on this song. Adjust your speakers! The bass on this song is quite heavy.
Setting for the beginning of Cisco Kid takes place inside an infant ward of a hospital. A baby is crying. Lullaby music is playing in the background. Soothing of course.
You might not believe this but K Chill remembers the date of his birth. He remembers being born. He came out of his mother’s stomach. It’s a trip. The doctor slapped and K Chill knocked him out. Damn! K Chill is nothing to play with. He was ruthless and hyper as an infant. A beeper was kept in his diaper.
Elementary school wasn’t shit to K Chill. The Cisco Kid. By Kindergarden is when he learned what the 3 R’s were. Reading, writing, and running hoes. K Chill was stacking bills by 1st grade. He was already practicing his macking skills by 2nd grade. Elementary school wasn’t shit to K Chill. K Chill was the mack by 7th grade.
Here are the children stories which K Chill used explicit language and with his own twist. A huge twist of sexuality is used. His stories are provocative in nature. He told the stories of Cisco Kid, There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
One example is version of Mother Goose’s There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. He renamed the story into "There was a lady who lived in a shoe." . This lady was a prostitute who worked for Little Boy Blue.
There was a lady who lived in a shoe. She was turning tricks as a prostitute for Little Boy Blue. Blue’s main hoe could not live in the dumps. So they had a first class suite in a Reebok pump. Then things started turning funny. She started coming up short on the money. Little Boy Blue said, “What up, hoe? Sing or else I’m going to have your ass living in a broke lane.”
Another example is his telling of Hickory Dickory Dock. The song uses drug related themes. Hickory dickory dock, a new dope fiend coming up on my jock.
No 1 Else 2 Blame deals with the touchy subject of black on black crime in America. Not so many rappers speak on the issue of black on black crime.
K Chill got jacked for his 8 Ball of cocaine the other day. He is thinking about whether he should go and get a .9 millimeter handgun. He is aware that if he does so that he is contributing to black on black crime. However he chooses not. Instead he calls for police. Police did not find shit.
Dreams of a .9 millimeter to his head got his mind bent. First words he heard were, “Get against the wall!” The sounds of a glock being cocked is all he heard. 3 other brothers grabbed K Chill. They told him, “Get against the wall, mothafucka, and stay still!” This is a scary situation. This here is an example of black on black crime.
Boom Boom '93 is a remix of Boom Booms In My Trunk from his 1992 EP The Chill Factor. K Chill came to us live with a new remix for 1993. Young Wish is the other rapper that is on the chorus.
The song is an ode to bass. Hearing bass booming from a stereo system is an everyday thing in Cleveland. Go down St. Clair Avenue and you’ll hear what I’m talking about. Boom Boom can be heard out of Jeeps and Rangers.
Below is a short list of some of the memorable verses and lyrics from this song.
“Boom boom in my 89 Honda with my Alpine/Pull out ya ya”
“We’ll snatch some boom boom out your trunk”
“I’ll snatch the boom boom out your trunk”
Hang Up 304 uses a dope selection of funky beats. The song uses a dancehall reggae rhythm. The song uses medium bass. His flow blends in perfectly with the smooth beats.
K Chill was cooling out at the house with nothing to do. The phone rings. Who could this be? Maybe it’s a girl. A groupie calls to tell him that she is 7 months pregnant. She was the girl he met on tour. Her stomach is getting fat. How could this be? K Chill wore a condom. The condom must have broke. He hangs up the phone on her.
He is sick of all these hoes up in his business. It’s not their business to know who he has touched, freaked, or fucked.
K Chill raps about selling rocks (cocaine) on Erskies. The song gives details about his shortcomings and falls when he was drug dealing. The song gives details about his downfall in the drug game. Loosing money is part of the drug game. Cutting up 20s to 10s is selling yourself short. You will earn less money by doing so. So don’t sell yourself short. His rise in the drug game was not easy. There many obstacles he had to overcome such as getting caught by police and running out of product.
For those who did not know, DJ Swamp was K Chill’s DJ back in the day for his first two releases. DJ Swamp did the scratching on Erskies.
Now if you listen to the lyrics on Next On The Mic, there is a hidden diss. The lyrics “Your lyrics wouldn't be hard if you wrote em on concrete” serve as a diss towards wack emcees and rapper. So all weak emcees better be aware. Heed this as a warning. The humorous side of this song are these lyrics “ The roof the roof the roof is on fire/We don’t need nothing but the weed and a lighter”
Big Butt Females was the Cleveland answer to Sir Mixalot - Big Butts. His love for big butts drives everybody nuts. The bigger the butt is, the bigger the body will be. Think redbone.
Coochie Crook relies heavily on the sample of George Clinton - Atomic Dog. K Chill sounds similar to Ice Cube when he raps on this song. The song is about straight up sex. The song is very cookie cutter in terms of subject matter.
I rate this album 4/5****!
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