Chilly D – Too Far Gone has such a brash thuggish lyrics with a street-savvy mentality. Topics on this album range from prostitution, drug dealing, hustling, and other criminal activity. Yet the synths give this album a chill down to earth vibe despite the album not being real down to earth. This whole album is aggressive in nature and style. His malevolent lyrics stand out. Too Far Gone is Chilly D’s debut album.
The album was produced by the legendary producer Ricé in 1996. He was the Dr. Dre of San Antonio in the 1990s and 2000s. Too Far Gone was produced at Ricé’s Music Box Studios when it was located in his trailer at Westhill Mobile Home & RV Park on Pinn Road in Southwest San Antonio. That is why you can hear his sound all over the album.
The album also features the SAOG Family and the West Side Thugz. Mr. Joshay, Big J, and AGee make an appearance also. This album released on Hunt Dawg Records in 1997 on CD and cassette formats.
Chilly D – Too Far Gone is one of the most overlooked gangsta rap albums from San Antonio, Texas next to Lil Sin - Frustrated By Death, Santee - Out The Pen To Win, and PKO - Armed & Dangerous. His debut album sells for hundreds of dollars when sold online on websites such as eBay, Amazon, GEMM, Discogs, etc. The reason his albums sell for astronomical prices is because of limited distribution and lack of promotion.
Too Far Gone serves as the opening track for his debut album. Too Far Gone was the anthem for San Antonio for 5 short years. In this song Chilly D talks about how his hood (Rigsby Courts) is living large and coming up.
Chilly talks about how he got the streets of San Antonio sowed up. Ya’ll can’t stop this fool for banging the red and blue (Bloods and Crips). He’s got his dope (drug products) selling on the corners. Watch yourself when you come into his projects. There are bad people lurking there. Rigsby Courts is living large and coming up. Hitting lick after lick. People have to get paid. He is malevolent towards enemies.
The lyrics “Watch yourself when you come into my turf” are those malevolent lyrics I mentioned earlier. Those lyrics are irreverent to law enforcement and harmful.
The chorus of the song is where Chilly D lists housing projects and neighborhood that are too far gone. Read these lyrics as an example, “Rigsby Courts is just too far gone. East Terrace is just too far gone. Ain’t no turnin’ back. Wheatley Courts is just too far gone.”
Ever heard of survival of the fittest? Well that is what the song Survival Of Da Hustla about. Survival of the most fit hustlers set on making the most amount of money in the drug game while involved in organized crime. Hustlers screw other hustlers over to eliminate competition. The song is all about coming up and making the most money. So get your hustle on.
Survival Of Da Hustla is wordplay on the term ‘survival of the fittest’. Chilly D put his own twist on the term ‘survival of the fittest’ and turned that into Survival Of Da Hustla. That is how this song came about.
Chilly D pays homage and respect to legendary gangsta rap group PKO during the beginning in this song. The lyrics “I give love to PKO who put my hood on” are paying respect to PKO. You don’t get that sort of respect in rap anymore which is very sad.
Hunt Dawg Records is coming up and can’t be stopped. Chilly D’s label is surely to be the next best thing for San Antonio, Texas whether people like it or not.
King of Da Game is an example of Ricé’s signature production style which is thick bass, thick synths, and thick guitars. Ricé was all about using double bass and double guitars in the songs he produced during the 90s. He laid down some mean electric synths in this song. This was one of many songs he produced in his trailer when it was on Pinn Road. So you know this song is going to be smooth. This is, by far, one of the best songs on the album.
King of Da Game is about how Chilly D controls the drug trade in San Antonio and how he runs the drug trade.
Chilly was slanging and selling rock cocaine heavily during that time. These lyrics to the chorus are a reference and a testament to this, ”I like the way Chilly D slangs that caine” The hood flows with drugs.
Chilly D is so bold and cold with his lyrics especially on stage. He is rocking Texas parties nonstop. He is serving drugs nonstop to the break of dawn. The rap game will never be the same with the way he does his lyrics and pimping. Chilly D is the OG TX Hustler. Not everyone can roll with G’s from Rigsby Courts. Ya’ll don’t know about his spot. Cops, competitors, hustlers, and rivals lurk at his spot.
Don’t press your luck or Chilly D will put a bullet in your skull and leave you bleeding. You’re rhymes are coming up short and are weak when comparing them to Chilly D’s lyrics. Chilly D is king of this dope game and rap game.
Chilly D gonna bang as he is a big time hustler up in this dope game trying to get rich like everyone else. Life in the dope game is rough and not easy at all. That’s why he kick this dope game to you. Coming up amongst these hoodlums is how he maintains in the dope game and his hustle. He will survive. Bustas die each day. San Antonio high rollers are quickly on that ass.
Chilly D’s rhymes flow smooth as crystal water. He is the best rapper to control the rap game in his city. The city is in his hands. Shitty MCs can’t drop rhymes like these. He doesn’t owe the feds (Internal Revenue Service bka IRS) a damn thing. He stays strapped to prepare for anything unexpected. He keeps the gangsta rap moving in on these streets. Chilly D is taking over climbing through the ranks of the hood the way soldiers climb through the ranks of the army or navy. RCG (Rigsby Court Gangstas) are his family. Loyalty is his.
Shitty MCs can’t drop rhymes like these. Everybody thinks they’re Master P when they’re not. He’ll be damned if you touch that money. These lyrics are a diss to those who made money illegally and later went legit. “You sound like everybody in the industry/Started off as Scarface now you’re Master P”
Those lyrics were aimed at Nino of PKO. Chilly D disses Nino of PKO at the end of the song called him out for not being an “original Texan” and tells him he is not family anymore. He dissed him for not being a part of RCG aka RTG. The irony of that is that they were one once a part of Bloodstone Villians (BSV). Chilly D is an OG BSV who ran Rigsby Courts at one time.
Gangsta Livin is about living a criminal lifestyle and being gangsta. It’s basically about how gangstas live. Ricé produced the synths on Gangsta Livin in his trailer on Pinn Road. So you know this song is going to be smooth.
This is how gangstas live and people can’t change it. People can’t handle how life goes. They live sweller than a motherfucker being wild and free. Smoking on good weed. Coming up and rocking dope (drugs) while trying to get paid in this life crime among other nonsense. Coming up is an everyday thing (everyday thang). This is how gangstas slang and swang.
Crooked ass police want to catch gangstas slippin’ while doing their dirty work and doing dirt. When police show up late for court dates, the judge decides to let the gangsta free. Gangstas are still guilty of living a criminal lifestyle.
Ricé plays a mean bass guitar over a Timbaland-esque beat on Can't Fade This. The beat consists of a tom and a hi-hat. That’s what stands out on this Chilly D song.
Big J has been fucked in his own mind for quite an extended amount of time for some time now. There has been hate in his own neighborhood. Talk is free so he is compelled to throw away some shells. Never underestimate the powers of his trigger finger. He packs two extra clips. His malevolent lyrics stand out.Big J is never jonesing and is always clear about the situation at hand. Be sure to know who you’re friends are know who has your back.
Chilly is drug related and gang related. Chilly D eliminates the weak as we speak. He is fed up with these bullshit pop rappers because they are full of shit. He is repping SA. He is still untouchable and in control. Blood is thick because niggaz click up. So be aware. He’s a bigger gangster than you’ll ever be.
TX By Da Oz is about how Chilly D represents the state of Texas on his back and gets us an insight on how he operates during his drug escapades. The song is a classic song in San Antonio and remains so to this day.
No matter where Chilly D goes he is slanging Texas by the ounce hence the song title “TX By Da Oz”. He has the whole state of Texas to carry on his back as a rapper, hustler, and criminal. That’s a lot of weight to carry on one persons back. No matter where Chilly D goes he is slanging San Antonio by the ounce too.
Chilly D be hitting rhymes like switches on the song Rhymes Like Switches. He showcases his lyrical skills within his raps on this mic with this recording. Ricé blessed the track with his synths, bass guitars, and beats.
Hunt Dawg was an in-house producer for Chilly D’s Hunt Dawg Records label who produced Geto Gangsta. Ricé did not produce this song as many people would have you think otherwise. Ricé produced those Timbaland-esque beats on Geto Gangsta. The beats consists of a tom and a hi-hat. This song about ghetto life and is a representation of ghetto life.
I rate this album 5/5*****!
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