3SF - Three Shades of Funk album review
3SF - Three Shades of Funk is one of the lesser known albums that came from the On Time Productions label from San Antonio, Texas. This album is not widely know as the Spooky G & Blackjack album or the New Def’Nition album because 3SF - Three Shades of Funk was solely promoted in San Antonio. The album was on cassette only. Three Shades of Funk is a funky R&B album with a touch of New Jack Swing.
The song Delicious has a New Jack Swing sound with a minor touch of rock and sounds very similar to New Edition, Guy, Ralph Tresvant, and New Kids On The Block. Percussion and beats are quite thin. The instrumentation overlaps the vocals which makes hearing the vocals difficult. That is the only downside to this song.
Delicious is a tale of romance about a woman named Delicious. This woman had no use for romance. Other guys will not have a chance to go out on a date with her. The woman is clearly a loner. She needs some lovin’. One look at her sexy thighs will make you melt. One look at her sexy thighs will make it worth your while. That will make you do her the right way or the wrong.
Do You Want Me Baby is a slightly uptempo R&B love song. Percussion and beats are quite thin. The vocals are difficult to hear due the overlapping instrumentation which overlaps the vocals which makes hearing this song difficult. That is the only downside to this song.
Do You Want Me Baby is about dealing with a woman who plays hard to get. She shoots men down who attempt to date her as she has no time for that. A pretty girl with looks and style can be hard to deal with sometimes. Love makes things better and all right.
The song Midnight uses a heavy bass line leaving crippling impact on your speakers. Surprisingly Midnight is more upbeat than all of the other songs included on this cassette. On this song, 3SF sings to us about how midnight is a time for love and romance.
Mind O’ Rhymes is a rap song against racial profiling by police. 3SF has a mind o’ rhymes. Their rhymes are dope. Junior Boy of PKO composed these dope rhymes and composed this song.
3/5***
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Yvette Michelle - My Dream album review
Yvette Michelle - My Dream is an album filled with good ol' hip hop soul. The album filled with bangin’ hip hop beats produced by Hot 97 legend Funkmaster Flex from NYC (New York City). As a matter of fact, he served as executive producer for this whole album hence the East Coast sound. Full Force produced the whole album though. She laces these soulful songs with her sultry sexy vocals. Yvette Michele (Yvette Michelle) is Brooklyn’s most slept on talent. Her sound is similar to Mary J. Blige.
Loud Records did Yvette Michelle, Davina and Adriana Evans dirty. All of their albums dropped in 1997 and received little to no promotion. Loud Records didn't know how to push R&B/Soul correctly like Def Jam, Concord, Atlantic, or Stax. Apparently anytime a hip hop label ventures out to do R&B somehow, somewhere, it ends up flopping unexpectedly. That is what led this album to be highly slept on.
Yvette Michele could have been destined to be the next Mary J. Blige had Loud Records promoted her album correctly. She could have overcome Mary's longevity as well. But Loud Records had to drop the ball on her thus ending her career over there.
Everyday & Everynight is a song of how Yvette is head over heels for a radio DJ that she is crazy for. She has fallen in love with this DJ.
She is crazy about this particular radio DJ. Yvette remembers the very first time that she saw him. They were at a club when hey first met up. She wants to know all about him. That's all.
Every night, every day, and every time Yvette hears him play, she goes crazy. She can't get him off her mind. She wants to get to know his name and go out on a date. His music is mesmerizing to the point where he’s got her fantasizing. His love feels so good to her, yeah. He’s got her soakin wet on this night.
DJ Keep Playin’ is where Funkmaster Flex showcases to us on the wheels of steel his DJ skills while Yvette sings away with her soulful sultry voice. Full Force produced this song along with Funkmaster Flex. The song represents Brooklyn’s finest.
This song uses some East Coast hip hop production with its loud brash beats and DJ vinyl scratches. The vinyl cuts stand out the most. Hip hop samples are used of course.
I’m Not Feelin You is a song about how Yvette stands up for herself when she is not feeling something. She lets us know what’s not her style.
The first part of the song deals with her not feeling someone. She says being a player has never been her style. Playerism is not a part of her style too. Yvette is the type of women who stands up for herself when she is not feeling something or feeling someone in particular. Read these lyrics as an example.:
[Chorus]
I'm not feeling you
No matter what you do
No matter what you say
I'm leaving anyway
[Verse 1]
You know how I'm living
Playas never been my style
This time you're not forgiven so
Don't try to change my mind
[Pre-Chorus]
I know you want me
And I know you want me bad
I know you're thinkin' of me
It's my turn not to care
And that's why
So matter what that person says or does, she is leaving that person. So don’t try to change her mind because this time you are not forgiven.
The song Crazy was a radio hit in Brooklyn which became favorable among hip hop heads. The song even had its own music video. Of course this song was released back when 90’s R&B/soul ruled radio stations. Crazy samples The Jones Girls - Dance Turn Into Romance.
4/5****!
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Jake The Flake - Out 2 Get Rich album review
Jake The Flake’s Out 2 Get Rich album/EP is a legendary Flint classic to its own right. The album incorporates rap in soul by using classic soul samples layered under rap verses by Flint expatriate and rap legend Jake The Flake. Out 2 Get Rich is an album filled with positive uplifting songs such as Time To Go Legit and That’s The Way Life Goes which encourages people to get on our hustle, go to school to receive a higher level of education, and seek employment opportunities by working. Other songs on this album such as Out To Get Rich, Dayton Don’t Play, and Goin Way Out are about the dangers of the drug game, selling narcotics, dealing with police, politics, and hustling. All of these songs are classics which people have known about throughout his rap career.
Jake The Flake’s Out 2 Get Rich album/EP was released cassette and vinyl in 1992 by Stick N Move Records and later re-released by ADA’s distributed Power Records in 1998 onto CD format with new tracks. Jake The Flake’s Out 2 Get Rich album/EP was released locally in the areas of Flint, Michigan and Saginaw, Michigan at first before being sold nationwide.
Steve Pitts and Stick N Move Productions produced Jake The Flake’s album at Success Studios in Flint, Michigan, US along with Area 52 Studios. Steve Pitts engineered and mixed down the whole album himself though. He is the one engineered those dope beats you hear from the songs on this album. Jake The Flake wrote all of these song by himself when he was 15 years old.
Out To Get Rich (Out 2 Get Rich) is a song about how Jake The Flake killed 2 police officers for raiding his dope house or in his case crack house. Jake The Flake got rich in the drug game by selling narcotics specifically cocaine. Jake The Flake shows motivation in his ambition to hustle by keeping on selling narcotics. Shoestring of The Dayton Family makes a guest appearance on Out To Get Rich.
Some of the lyrics at the very beginning of this song come from the song Jake The Flake which came from the The Dayton Family - Dope Dayton Ave EP demo cassette from 1991. Read these lyrics from Verse 1 to get an understanding.:
[VERSE 1: JAKE THE FLAKE]
Deep in the ghetto lives a killer named Jake
Booming low key
Selling weight of Peruvian Flake
Copped me a half at the age of ten
Went down on Dayton and boomed my yey
From deep within the ghetto of Flint is where a killer named Jake The Flake aka Jaqualeon Hudson. (Particularly in King Hood on Dupont Street.) He keeps a low key profile due to his booming narcotics sales of drugs or in his case cocaine. He is known for selling weight of Peruvian Flake (cocaine) in the city of Flint. Jake began selling cocaine at age 10. That is what “Copped me a half at the age of ten” means.
Jake went down to Dayton Street (Dayton Avenue aka Dayton Ave) and sold his cocaine . He re-copped the leftover cocaine he didn’t sell or was not able to sell. By re-copping his leftover cocaine, he was able to sell it for a higher price. Now Jake has got something drug fiends can't live without. Jake has got them up with Durkee and they opened up a trap house on Dayton Street. (A trap house is where drugs are sold out of.) Business was booming 24/7. Jake make a smart business decision by keeping his business open 24/7 that way he could gain more clientele and more money. This is exactly the reason Jake opened up a trap house on Dayton Street.
Jake sold drugs at the addresses of 550 Dayton Street and 411 Dayton Street. These addresses are within just blocks of each other. Jake and members of The Dayton Family grew up on Dayton Ave. He is selling more cocaine than average person should.
Jake done bought himself a Fleetwood Cadillac. In that Cadillac are four 15-inch subwoofers and a Kenwood radio operating as a car audio setup. Cassette tape units were very popular during this time and Kenwood models were very sought after.
And now he is living off his hustle. His cousin Roachie is my muscle. Jake The Flake was like a young paid ass Barry White who kept his game tight. Slept with about three bitches every fucking night. 36 kilograms of cocaine is what he is copping.
It is now the 1st of the month and he is on his way to his dope house. Copping keys and making Gs is all he thinks about. Vice Squad vehicle were all on the grass. His spot was hit by the Vice Squad. He took a big loss. But Jake ain't worried about shit. The cop that did that shit won't do this type of shit no mo.
His drug house was raided by former Flint police officer Harlon Green who was once a vice cop. He was also a known crack fiend who is a user himself. Ironically his job involves arresting both drug sellers and drug users. Jake The Flake calls out specific police officers by name in this song of his.
Jake should have killed his monkey ass when he was staying on McClellan Street. But he didn’t. Jake let him get away. Jake The Flake is the hunter and Officer Harlon Green is his prey. Jake is going to kill that bitch for fucking up his establishment when going out to get rich.
Jake The Flake is riding through his neighborhood with four people in his car. He is paranoid. He’s smoking tree and getting ooted, feeling kind of clever.All that was on his mind was putting Officer Harlon Green to sleep.
Jake rolled by Dayton Street where Officer Kendall and Officer Harlon Green were pulling a raid. The raid was damn near over. They were on their way back downtown. Officer Kendall pulled to the stop sign and then he stopped. A red beam hit his head. That is when Kendall screamed. The red beam hit another officer next.
Two crooked cops lie dead with bullets in their heads or some shit that Officer Harlon Green did. So they know he straight fucked up.They should have known how Jake was cut. They didn’t. But that's what they get for fucking up Jake’s profit when he’s out to get rich.
Goin Way Out has that dark grim underground Flint sound from Jake, Steve Pitts and Stick N Move. They all were a long way ahead of their time.
Jake is a nigga with the motherfucking plate full of flake. Them oot-head bitches are on his dick for the pack. He gave that bitch a pack)and now he’s hitting it from the back. Your girl was drug free. But now that bitch is ooting cocaine thanks to Jake The Flake giving her cocaine. She is strung out on that blow. She didn't know how to oot but now that bitch is a pro.Jake The Flake is a provider and dealer.
Chilling at the crib with some bitches, playing Quarter Bounce. A nigga beeped him up. He wants a fucking quarter ounce. He beeped the boy back. He didn't want no crack. Jake met him around the corner. However it was a motherfucking jack. He really wasn't prepared. Jake had to let him know he was a real jacker. And jacking was his first trade. Jake was jacking niggas way back in the 1st grade. What was mean for him was never ever meant for you. Now it's time for payback!
You made a fucked move and now it's time to get that head cracked. Prepare for the killing coming down on all you hoes. It's going to be a serious manslaughter in this bitch.
Jake is presently hunting niggas down in other hoods with his sawed-off pump. Jake is killing niggas off for something he really shouldn't have started. He opened up the pack and hit the flake real hard. Walking through his neighborhood he seen some bitch that's outside dancing. He wanted to kill that bitch. Visions in his head was kill the bitch like Charles Manson.
Jake The Flake is now in the Genessee County Jail for suspicion of fiending for prostitution. Police caught him in a female sex fiends ride. Police allege Jake committed a homicide. Jake was home alone with his girl that was his alibi. Jake the Flake is upset at a division of police used to hinder their operations because he is drug dealing. But Jake The Flake is real and goin’ way out. Vice Squads are units of a police department that specialize in stopping crimes such s prostitution or drugs.
Shoestring wrote Verse 2 when he was high on cocaine. He was sober at the time he recorded this song with Jake The Flake. His lyrics are disturbing and horrifying at times.
Sheoestring is back from doing a bid. He beefs with many cliques and many niggas they have brung. Some of them niggas went home and some of them niggas got hung.
Shoestring is high at his crib. The cops are peeping in his window. They must have thought he was sleeping. Shoestring has been up for two days and is suffering from sleep deprivation. His body's feeling numb and nose is steady running. He is looking at his mother as his motherfucking enemy. He wonders if he should I shoot his mother or should rape her. Should he cut her up like a chain and drape her? You have crazy thoughts when you are high on cocaine. And now he’s broke and back in to reality. It’s the same old thing.
Shoestring grabbed his gat headed to that corner looking for his brother and his fucking bots. “I don't give a fuck. I'll play them niggas like some toys.” is what he thinks to himself.
Looked up the street and seen his nigga named Jake beefing with his brother and some other niggas. Them niggas stole his rocks where them niggas rolled them, made a fat knot, cocked the 50s back, and folded them.
Now he’s seeing three niggas cocked back pimping around the corner. They're rolling on Punchy's rims. Yeah he stopped the car and asked them for his dope. Ike cracked a grin. Shoestring grabbed him by his throat.
Ty reached up back and took a pop at his brother. They ganked him and Shoestring. Them niggas living wrong.
Punchy got his rims back. Ike bought some gear and now them niggas gone to Tennessee. But Shoestring didn't get his dope. Them niggas from the Ave. go way out.
Time To Get Legit is a positive uplifting song which encourages people to get on our hustle, go to school to receive a higher level of education, and seek employment opportunities by working. We as people. Jake The Flake comes clean about his drug dealing past on this song by explaining in rap how he got arrested while participating in the business of selling narcotics in the drug game.
The song was written and recorded in 1992 by Jake The Flake. Lorrie Coleman sings the background vocals. Steve Pitts engineered and mixed down the whole song. Recording time for this song took less than two months.
At the very beginning of the song is where Jake The Flake comes clean about his drug dealing past. He tells us people in the dope game (drug game) what time it is.
Jake The Flake is tired of being harassed by police who are all over his back. Police think he is selling crack cocaine because he is black. Bitches are on his dick because he is successful in the rap game. Although he spends most of his time fucking hoes and drinking Cognac. Jake loves making money. That’s what he wants and that’s whats happening.
Jake stopped selling cocaine and started back rapping again in 1992. He started rapping again because he did not want to go back to jail. He would rather be free than incarcerated in jail. Jake explains he would rather be riding in a jeep with the top down than be in the county jail for possession of cocaine. Jake has gone the legit route.
You can’t trust a fiend or 5-0 (police) when you’re in the business of selling drugs. Jake cautions us to be careful when in the business of selling drugs period. The drug game is a win or loose game. So peep game! It’s time to go legit.
The following lyrics to the 1st Verse below are still true and relevant today.:
so peep game, yeah
it’s time to go legit
Jake had his time in the dope game. He was pimping hoes at a young age. But now it’s all about making that real legit money.
It’s time to go legit. Jake’s not talking about working at McDonald’s. He’s talking about bachelor’s, associates, and master’s degrees. People need to go to school so they can receive a higher level of education and become more educated so they get better jobs for employment. Jake remains positive by telling people it is time to go legit by going the legit route.
The following lyrics to the 2nd Verse below are still true and relevant today.:
it’s time to go legit
I’m not talking about Mickey D’s
I’m talking about bachelor’s, associates, and master’s degrees
it’s time to make a change
the dope game is playin out
It’s time to make a change. The dope game has been played out for too long. People have already been selling drugs for a long time. People get killed in the business of selling drugs and narcotics. If you want to live or die, that’s up to you. Keep selling drugs and one day you will not be free as you will eventually be incarcerated.
At the very end of this song is where Jake The Flake comes clean about his drug dealing past by explaining how he got arrested. He got caught speeding down a busy street by Officer Julio H. and the Vice Squad.
Jake The Flake got caught by the Vice Squad and Special Ops when he was selling cocaine. It all began during a hot summer day in Flint, Michigan. Jake was driving down Mott Avenue. He hit a stop sign, made a right, and now he was on Dupont Street. Jake checked the rearview mirror to make sure things were clear. Police were nowhere in sight. A cop was parked behind a tree. He didn’t spot that cop due to the patrol car being cleverly hidden behind a tree.
Jake thinks this will be a car chase police will sure able to lose. A car chase ensues. Police followed him for a block. A car chase now become a police chase.
They followed him to his destination on Dupont Street which is his residence. He’s on a busy street trying to turn into the driveway. 2 cops now appear. Jake had cocaine is his possession. He attempts to park in his driveway only to be hit by a member of the Vice Squad. It’s his own fault he got caught. Jake tosses his bag of cocaine into the grass. His cocaine got found. Jake got taken down by the Vice Squad. Officer Julio H. arrested him right there on the scene.
If your money ain’t legit, you money ain’t shit. As long as you are legit, you are straight. People will take you money the faster you make it. Jake The Flake tells people and encourages them to make a change in careers along with their life as he did. He wants people to become more educated and employed.
Dayton Don’t Play uses a more slower, monotonous downtempo sound. The musical keys from the piano gives this song a downtempo vibe. Goin Way Out sounds very chopped and screwed in a sense due to its slow tempo. Steve Pitts plays the piano. Dayton Don’t Play is about how them niggas from the Ave. don’t play around with their money.
Jake the Flake in this bitch to let us know Dayton don't play that shit. You'll get your skull split. As soon as you run off at the mouth popping hoe ass shit. So you better watch your ass.
Jake and TDF are kicking it and lounging on the Ave. Suddenly a cab driver gets killed. What happened to that cab driver? He got killed in that cab on a street full of lunatics leaving no evidence. The only thing found were dead bodies and Jake’s fingerprints. Flint is a city of crack fiends. The fiends look more spaced out than out on Halloween.
Now Jake is up at the liquor store which is Dayton Food Mart on 2502 Dupont Street where he is getting paid. Of course he is getting paid by selling dope. A fiend came through selling a fresh ass Pelle coat. Jake requested to see the Pelle coat. He liked the Pelle coat. Jake told the fiend to be on the way and never to come back. The fiend left with no problem and didn't say a word.
Jake went in the liquor store and copped a Thunderbird. He came out of the liquor store where the fiends were lined up. They knew his dope was cut good. But they didn't give a fuck. He made all the sales.
Suddenly out of nowhere jumped a dealer he didn't know. From down in his pants there came out his sawed-off shotgun. Jake blew out the dealer’s brains and ran quick. Jake shot that person because he was taking away his clients and making him loose money. He had to let that person know that Dayton don't play that shit!
On the hook is where Jake lets everyone including vice cops, stanky pussy hoes, and niggas trying to be down that Dayton don't play that shit. Below is an example.:
[HOOK]
Dayton don't play that shit
Motherfucking Vice cops
Dayton don't play that shit
Stanky pussy hoes
Dayton don't play that shit
Niggas trying to be down
Dayton don't play that shit
He got his 9 down on the corner. Cops roll past him. Jake is steadily clocking cash. They know if they stop he’ll let my fucking 9 blast. Police paid him no mind. At least that's what a nigga thought. Jake unexpectedly has visions of getting caught. But Jake doesn't get caught. He always gets away.
Unexpectedly the police circled back to where Jake was. He then ran through the backyard and the trail to stash his cocaine. He came through the trail and ended up on the next street. The police was on his ass faster than a heartbeat. He ran back through the trail and headed the other way. An officer tried to block him off. Jake blew the officer’s ass away which resulted in instant death. They were still following him. Heard gunshots popping at Jake simultaneously. He thought, "Could this be my end?”.
Then he seen his friend coming through popping with a motherfucking Mac-10 shooting the police officers down. He watched as their bodies bled. Another occasion of painting the streets red.They broke them off proper. They had to let them know that Dayton don't play that shit.
Jake is making my cash legit while people are out there slanging crack and breaking their fucking backs. See Jake stays low key to be safe. Down in his neighborhood a gat is mandatory. Rocking up dope at his spot like a laboratory.
The lyrics “I graduated, so get you a damn diploma” is where Jake encourages people to go to school so they can receive a higher level of education and become more educated so they get better jobs for employment. The positive side of this song is Jake telling people to get a diploma.
He struggled to make it by as the ghetto is a cold place. Flint is a city where you can find strung out crack fiends on freebase. Flint is the way Jake thought it would never be.
That's The Way Life Goes is an upbeat rap soul song which exposes urban reality. Backing vocals include the harmonious vocals from local R&B duo Night & Day aka Nite N Day. The song That's The Way Life Goes samples Desmond Dekker - The Way Life Goes. That is the soul sample which you hear in this song.
Young children on the streets dying. That’s the way life goes because that is the life they chose. Standing on the corner all day and night. Plotting an armed robbery or a fight. Not knowing they are killing their own people or own race. All Jake The Flake sees is burnt out streetlights, fiends with crack pipes, and people who aren’t living right. People are out to get what the next person has. That’s how people get shot. Is it worth the sacrifice? Think back to slavery when slaves were dealt some foul low blows. But that’s the way life goes.
Jake The Flake reminisces about his childhood. Visions of him with his mother for some canned goods issued by the government come to his mind. So he shares them with us. Society is based on the upper class. The blacks in the ghetto are considered last. Sadly that’s how life goes in reality.
Jake The Flake explains how he does janitorial work. He cleans floors and bathrooms using a push broom. He is living poor. College is something he could afford. Looking for employment is something he is dedicated at. He wonders what he should with his at this point in the song. Jake wonders what the world is coming to. Even he doesn’t really know. But that’s the way life goes. There’s only so many things you can change.
That’s the way life goes. There’s only so many things you can change in life. You sometimes have deal with what you were dealt with.
5/5*****!!
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Jake The Flake - Time To Go Legit / That's The Way Life Goes single review
Jake The Flake’s Time To Go Legit / That's The Way Life Goes single is a legendary Flint classic to its own right. The single incorporates rap in soul by using classic soul samples layered under rap verses by Flint expatriate and rap legend Jake The Flake. Time To Go Legit is a single filled with positive uplifting songs such as and Time To Go Legit and That’s The Way Life Goes which encourages people to get on our hustle, go to school to receive a higher level of education, and seek employment opportunities by working. The single also explores the dangers of the drug game, selling narcotics, dealing with police, politics, and hustling. All of these songs are classics which people have known about throughout his rap career.
Jake The Flake was big in Flint and Saginaw back in the 90s. You couldn't go anywhere without hearing the hook to his track "Jake....the mothafuckin' Flake…..”.
Time To Get Legit is a positive uplifting song which encourages people to get on our hustle, go to school to receive a higher level of education, and seek employment opportunities by working. We as people. Jake The Flake comes clean about his drug dealing past on this song by explaining in rap how he got arrested while participating in the business of selling narcotics in the drug game.
The song was written and recorded in 1992 by Jake The Flake. Lorrie Coleman sings the background vocals. Steve Pitts engineered and mixed down the whole song. Recording time for this song took less than two months.
At the very beginning of the song is where Jake The Flake comes clean about his drug dealing past. He tells us people in the dope game (drug game) what time it is.
Jake The Flake is tired of being harassed by police who are all over his back. Police think he is selling crack cocaine because he is black. Bitches are on his dick because he is successful in the rap game. Although he spends most of his time fucking hoes and drinking Cognac. Jake loves making money. That’s what he wants and that’s whats happening.
Jake stopped selling cocaine and started back rapping again in 1992. He started rapping again because he did not want to go back to jail. He would rather be free than incarcerated in jail. Jake explains he would rather be riding in a jeep with the top down than be in the county jail for possession of cocaine. Jake has gone the legit route.
You can’t trust a fiend or 5-0 (police) when you’re in the business of selling drugs. Jake cautions us to be careful when in the business of selling drugs period. The drug game is a win or loose game. So peep game! It’s time to go legit.
The following lyrics to the 1st Verse below are still true and relevant today.:
so peep game, yeah
it’s time to go legit
Jake had his time in the dope game. He was pimping hoes at a young age. But now it’s all about making that real legit money.
It’s time to go legit. Jake’s not talking about working at McDonald’s. He’s talking about bachelor’s, associates, and master’s degrees. People need to go to school so they can receive a higher level of education and become more educated so they get better jobs for employment. Jake remains positive by telling people it is time to go legit by going the legit route.
The following lyrics to the 2nd Verse below are still true and relevant today.:
it’s time to go legit
I’m not talking about Mickey D’s
I’m talking about bachelor’s, associates, and master’s degrees
it’s time to make a change
the dope game is playin out
It’s time to make a change. The dope game has been played out for too long. People have already been selling drugs for a long time. People get killed in the business of selling drugs and narcotics. If you want to live or die, that’s up to you. Keep selling drugs and one day you will not be free as you will eventually be incarcerated.
At the very end of this song is where Jake The Flake comes clean about his drug dealing past by explaining how he got arrested. He got caught speeding down a busy street by Officer Julio H. and the Vice Squad.
Jake The Flake got caught by the Vice Squad and Special Ops when he was selling cocaine. It all began during a hot summer day in Flint, Michigan. Jake was driving down Mott Avenue. He hit a stop sign, made a right, and now he was on Dupont Street. Jake checked the rearview mirror to make sure things were clear. Police were nowhere in sight. A cop was parked behind a tree. He didn’t spot that cop due to the patrol car being cleverly hidden behind a tree.
Jake thinks this will be a car chase police will sure able to lose. A car chase ensues. Police followed him for a block. A car chase now become a police chase.
They followed him to his destination on Dupont Street which is his residence. He’s on a busy street trying to turn into the driveway. 2 cops now appear. Jake had cocaine is his possession. He attempts to park in his driveway only to be hit by a member of the Vice Squad. It’s his own fault he got caught. Jake tosses his bag of cocaine into the grass. His cocaine got found. Jake got taken down by the Vice Squad. Officer Julio H. arrested him right there on the scene.
If your money ain’t legit, you money ain’t shit. As long as you are legit, you are straight. People will take you money the faster you make it. Jake The Flake tells people and encourages them to make a change in careers along with their life as he did. He wants people to become more educated and employed.
That's The Way Life Goes is an upbeat rap soul song which exposes urban reality. Backing vocals include the harmonious vocals from local R&B duo Night & Day aka Nite N Day. The song That's The Way Life Goes samples Desmond Dekker - The Way Life Goes. That is the soul sample which you hear in this song.
Young children on the streets dying. That’s the way life goes because that is the life they chose. Standing on the corner all day and night. Plotting an armed robbery or a fight. Not knowing they are killing their own people or own race. All Jake The Flake sees is burnt out streetlights, fiends with crack pipes, and people who aren’t living right. People are out to get what the next person has. That’s how people get shot. Is it worth the sacrifice? Think back to slavery when slaves were dealt some foul low blows. But that’s the way life goes.
Jake The Flake reminisces about his childhood. Visions of him with his mother for some canned goods issued by the government come to his mind. So he shares them with us. Society is based on the upper class. The blacks in the ghetto are considered last. Sadly that’s how life goes in reality.
Jake The Flake explains how he does janitorial work. He cleans floors and bathrooms using a push broom. He is living poor. College is something he could afford. Looking for employment is something he is dedicated at. He wonders what he should with his at this point in the song. Jake wonders what the world is coming to. Even he doesn’t really know. But that’s the way life goes. There’s only so many things you can change.
That’s the way life goes. There’s only so many things you can change in life. You sometimes have deal with what you were dealt with.
5/5*****!!
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The Christal Methodists - Scripture Lips & Filter Tips album review
The Christal Methodists - Scripture Lips & Filter Tips has the most repulsive, sexually explicit, and controversial album cover artwork in the history of underground rock. The album cover artwork is a crude drawing of a woman inserting a Christianity cross into her vagina. She spreads her vagina open to insert the cross. She appears to be using the cross as a dildo for vaginal stimulation or is using the cross as an of masturbation. And this is drawn over a light blue background.
The soundscape is an abundance of garage rock and underground rock with spoken word performances. What you hear are actual recordings taken from live AM radio from the heart of Texas. The Christal Methodists have a dark outlook and perspective of Old Testament talk radio. The Christal Methodists preach authentic scriptures from the Old Testament. The sound is very 90s of course since it was released in the mid-90s.
Have Mercy On Us is packaged as a Methodist Christian prayer using scriptures from the Old Testament book. Dr. Dubbs adds an exciting new flavor of rock music to this Christian prayer. This song is something similar to what you would hear from the Melvins.
American Anti-Crustacean League is a rock song which cites Old Testament scriptures. Dr. Dubbs and Herr Ribs provide the sound effects of discipleship. American Anti-Crustacean League uses samples of fundamentalist Christian advertising from AM radio.
Divine Surfers is a surf rock song which uses a religious touch of Christian fain. Herr Ribbs is riding the powerful waves of faith. Herr Ribs is immersed in the meaningfulness of this wave of faith and the whole song itself.
Holiday in Somalia is cover version of Dead Kennedy’s Holiday in Cambodia and is The Christal Methodists take on Holiday in Cambodia. The Christal Methodists do an excellent job on covering this song even if so many rock bands over the years have covered Dead Kennedy’s songs.
Impregnated By The State is about an epiphany Debbie Dachau had. After Debbie Dachau experienced the Second Coming of the Lord or in her case Second Coming of the Lard, She believes a believers temptation towards sexual sin is redeemed through the body and bloodied. The track can be described as an energetic exercise track.
Nose to Nose with Satan uses samples of fundamentalist Christian advertising from AM radio. The other samples came from a troubled teen hotline. God’s Anvil is an apocalyptic Christian rap song with a snappy nationalist vibe. The tempo is 120 BPM. Reverend Hicks delivers a fiery Christian sermon on God Knows Everything for our listening pleasure.
5/5*****!!
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DJ Krush - DJ Krush EP EP review
The DJ Krush EP by DJ Krush was released as a vinyl for radio DJs to promote his then upcoming Krush album which was released in 1995 by Shadow Records. DJ Krush's EP is full of hip hop beats, mad vinyl cuts, jazzy instrumentation, and old soul samples for hip hop heads to enjoy. The beats are tight. All of the songs included on his EP are instrumental hip hop. So this EP is perfect for all ages and crowds. Who knew that a Japanese DJ could incorporate such jazzieness on a hip hop EP?
Roll & Tumble incorporates jazz & hip hop creating a jazz hop infusion. The upright bass and grand piano help give this song a jazz vibe too. Percussion and raw hip hop beats are very tight. The song is an instrumental hip hop song with a trip hop groove. There are a few clicks and pops occasionally. But that’s raw hip hop for you. Don’t let the occasional surface noise bother you.
Horns on On The Dub-ble give the song a significant touch of jazziness. The beats are tight and instrumentation layout are mellow. On The Dub-ble incorporates jazz & hip hop creating a jazz hop infusion which has an urban sound and touch also.
Into The Water is a percussion driven song ridden with electronic synths. The song Into The Water has a mellow vibe. Also rock music is incorporated in the middle of the song.
Ruff-Neck Jam is a jazz instrumental with the occasional surface noise. There are a few clicks and pops occasionally. The song is filled with jazziness. The beats are nicely arranged by DJ Krush himself. Ruff-Neck Jam contains samples from The Gil Evans Orchestra - La Nevada.
5/5*****!!
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