Mixerr Album Reviews #687

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I will review the Gin.U.Wine Clique - Gin.U.Wine for an album review.

Gin.U.Wine was a 3-track demo cassette that came out in 1995. The Gin.U.Wine Clique was a rap group from Knoxville, Tennessee.

50 copies of these Gin.U.Wine Clique cassettes were produced and 49 were mailed out to magazines for review and towards record labels in hopes for a recording contract. This is the same cassette that was sent to and reviewed by Rap Sheet Magazine in 1995. The Gin.U.Wine Clique received calls and responses from record labels such as Black Market Records, Ichiban, and In-A-Minute Records during the same year as well. The Gin.U.Wine Clique demo cassettes were never pressed up for resale or released to the general public in stores.


Somethin' 2 Ride 2 is something for you to ride to whether you be out in traffic as stoplight or you're just cruising down the highway. This track is pure unadulterated g-funk. The way rap should be. Their style is the dopest. Backing vocals of female vocalists can be heard at the end of the track.

Make way for the new g's stepping on the block as Gin.U.Wine Clique takes us to cloud 99 which to them is a whole another level of street knowledge. (At least to Gin.U.Wine Clique it is.)
Tales of heinous violence on the street are told by Pooh Styles.

[Pooh Styles was the one who educates us about street knowledge at the beginning of this track and the other entirety of the track.]

Jadaeka went up next after Pooh Styles. Jadaeka breaks us off something proper as he puffs on indo (weed). The Gin.U.Wine Clique gots the swisher sweets. So now it's time to go to cloud 15. Jadaeka explains it's all about that pen and pad in the rap game. (Pen and pad is a reference to backpack raps in terms of songwriting skills.) Jadaeka explains also that only playas put it done in the city of Knoxville. Shoutouts to various areas are made in his last verse.

Twigg is the last one to rap on this track. Twigg explains that he is down for his crown in the city of Knoxville. Listen as Twigg takes us through the mind of a g.


Southern Style Funk is southern rap and g-funk at its finest. Nothing but pure raw raps. Gin.U.Wine Clique unleashes their lyricism with raw street raps into the studio on this demo cassette. Not many can do it like the Gin.U.Wine Clique can.

Gin.U.Wine Clique is smooth like that wine and you know they're legit. They can't be faded. So blaze up a fat sack of that chronic! Southern Style Funk is another hit track by the Gin.U.Wine Clique. You know they made it smooth and funky.


Cloud Fiddine (15) is about taking it to a whole another level in the game. That's where Gin.U.Wine Clique takes the listener. Another ode to a whole another level in the game.


Many rappers and groups from Knoxville, Tennessee we're over looked in the music business industry due to the presence of bigger cities such as Memphis and Nashville in the state of Tennessee. Gin.U.Wine Clique is no exception to this case. Gin.U.Wine Clique should have been the first rap group out of Knoxville to make it big on an international scale. Too bad that didn't happen. Knoxville rap always gets overlooked.

I rate this album, Gin.U.Wine, 5/5*****!