Soul Rebels is the debut album of House Of 909 which features an entire orchestra of electronic groups. Think electronic orchestra. What stands out about this electronic album is the number of groups featured. At least 3 groups were featured on this album. The spacious synths, loud shakers, and thick beats make a melodic symphony on the album. The sound for this album leans more towards deep house and British garage.
Slotech Soul is a slow tempo based techno song with stellar production from House of 909. This song starts up the album as this is the opening track. Soul meets techno on Slotech Soul.
Last Dance is a perfect deep house song that either put you in a trance or make you want to dance. The ethnic shakers, thick beats, and spacious synths are what makes the song so relaxing and melodic. Shakers, synths, tambourine, and beats what a make a melodic symphony and ensemble in this song. The synths are truly beautiful in such an spacey atmospheric background. Now the shakers have as much of a loud presence as the synths and beats do. You can hear shakers at the beginning of this song which stand out of course. House Of 909 certainly made this song a classic.
The Main Event utilizes some thin crispy beats over dance cymbals. Cymbals practically overlap electric synths in this song in a rhythmic way. The buildup begins at 1:48. The Main Event is a great rave house track with stellar production from House Of 909.
Pussycutz is a stellar deep house song with uncut trance style production from House Of 909. Close your eyes and this song will take you into a trance. “You only have to close your eyes to understand.” House Of 909 blessed us gratefully with this track with their production techniques.
The Future Soul Orchestra song called Life’s Journey has significantly reduced bass and treble. What stands out about this song are the warped auto-wah filters used for effect. The synths are certainly hypnotic and intoxicating. Life’s Journey contains samples of Martin Circus - Disco Circus.
Love Of God is similar to a Larry Heard song due to the synths and grooves. The synths are quite upbeat and soulful with a live sound. It’s a house style electronic song by Future Soul Orchestra.
Movin’ On is a funk driven electronic song from Future Soul Orchestra that is laced with strings, heavy pultruding bass lines, and Latin samba based beats similar to rumba. Think funk meets electronic music with a dance groove The song certainly has a retro sound that many will definitely enjoy. Future Soul Orchestra certainly have blessed us with their production techniques here.
5/5*****!
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House Of 909 - The Children We Were album review
The Children We Were was the sophomore album from House Of 909 released on the label of the same name. What’s different about this album is that album did not feature any outside producers or any in-house producers as was the case with their debut album. This album was produced entirely by House Of 909. Now there are featured artists on this album such Azeem and Bobbi Depasois. The sound for this album leans more towards Chicago house than British garage or deep house.
Playing Fields is a smooth deep house track with a relaxing vibe you can relax to. The song has a chilling deep house vibe to it. The beats are noticeably thinner on this track than all of the others that are on this album. Turn up your volume so you can hear the beats. Analog bass is used in various places throughout this song.
Tribute is a garage influenced house song with thin processed beats and funky bass lines. The whole song is entirely instrumental music.
Story Telling Giants uses Afrocentric based percussion with crispy and thin. The song uses a fusion of tribal house, funk, garage, and jazz house. The song has a relaxing vibe that is similar to Playing Fields in terms of mood. Synths and bass are what give Story Telling Giants a chunk of funk. The xylophone is what gives the song that jazz house sound and vibe.
Beautiful Day is one of the most beautiful atmospheric songs on the album with vibe similar to both Playing Fields and Story Telling Giants. The song is a classic to House Of 909 fans.
4/5****!
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Tee Double - The Growth album review
The Growth album by Tee Double stands out as being a more Jazz oriented album than a Hip Hop/Rap album. Tee Double is known for using Jazz samples and Jazz sounds throughout in his music. Take Lost Scriptures, Mirage, The Jazz sound is more prevalent on The Growth album than on any other of Tee Double's albums. Think Jazz rap in this case. That's how The Growth album stands out more than any of Tee Double's albums. The Growth represents Tee Double’s growth as an artist, lyricist, producer, and emcee.
Tee Double brings us into throwback mode with Bringing It Back. Tee Double brings us to the old school rap technique of simple backpack rap with simple raps. The drums and beats are similar to a Jazz drum kit with a new school modern pop sound. The drums are sped to an upbeat mode. Bringing It Back was featured on the hit television series Breaking Bad.
The song The Growth represents Tee Double’s growth as an artist, lyricist, producer, arranger, and emcee. The Growth uses a jazz sample of course. No matter what happens in the world, Tee Double just keeps on improving with his lyrics and production.
Natural Phlow is an organic all original rap song performed by Tee Double himself and features no guest artists.
Feel The Vibe has an upbeat funky live sound and vibe backed by a funky guitar. Not surprising since this song is a live recording. This song appeared on his 2004 album The Lone Star LP. Boombox ATX is the band that performs on Feel The Vibe.
Tee Double practices his vocal laps on the track Vocal Laps. Rap meets Jazz on Vocal Laps. Think Jazz Rap. The raps are perfect and on point not to mention relevant to the track. No matter what happens in the world, Tee Double just keeps on improving with his lyricism. That’s why he keeps running and doing vocals.
5/5*****!
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Chilly D – Too Far Gone album review
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. 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.
5/5*****!
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Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 album review
Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 was another gangsta rap album from San Antonio, Texas that got overlooked due to a lack of promotion and limited distribution. The album has such a brash thuggish lyrics with a street-savvy mentality. This whole album is aggressive in nature and style. Topics on this album range from prostitution, drug dealing, hustling, and other criminal activity.
The album also features Nino, Lil Sin, Lady Lunatic, Tosha T., Mr. Geto, DRE, SAOG Family, West Side Thugz, and Tear Drop make an appearances. This album released on Hunt Dawg Records in 2000 on CD and cassette formats.
Some of the songs on this album such as Too Thuggish 4 U, C What I C!, Do U Feel?, Geto Gangzta Part 2, Survival Of Tha Hustler (Remix), Too Far Gone (Remix), and Hommiez Gone were produced by Ricé at his studio called 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 on various parts of this album.
Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 is one of the most overlooked gangsta rap albums from San Antonio, Texas and is Chilly D’s second album. All of Chilly D albums are overlooked and overpriced. His albums sell for astronomical prices when sold online.
However the album is not as good as his debut album due to the lack of Ricé’s presence in production, lyrical content, and number of guest artists featured. Here are the factors as to what led this album to not be as much of a classic underground hit as his debut album.
•Some of the guests artists of the SAOG Family aren’t exactly the best lyricists or rappers on the mic. The number of guest artists featured is a lot and lets us know that Chilly D can’t necessarily hold down his own weight on his tracks as a rapper.
•Most of the lyrical content and subject matter is nothing new. Many rappers have spoken about drugs and crime. That is nothing new.
•Ricé was not as “hands-on” with this album as he was with his debut album a few years earlier in 1997. Ricé had his hands on producing so many other albums for San Antonio rap artists at the time also. That’s why he only produced 6 out of 16 songs on this album. Hunt Dawg produced the rest.
•The lack of promotion was another factor that led this album to be not as good as his debut album.
Too Thuggish 4 U serves as the intro and opener. The intro serves a memoir and biography of Chilly D which tells us about his time in the county jail to the penitentiary and the story of his life basically. Chilly D projects his hostility towards the world on this song. Ricé arranged and produced the beats.
He can’t quit living a criminal lifestyle. He got into a life of crime and became a victim when his mother moved into the Rigsby Courts housing projects on the East Side of San Antonio. (Although Chilly D claims Rigsby Courts on the East Side, he has ties with the West Side with Alazan Apache Courts.) So he grew up with hopelessness feeling helpless. What do you expect when someone grew up around criminals, convicts, addicts, and drug dealers? He’s been around fiends all his life.
It’s not a fairytale. He tells stories about the darker side of life. Time waits for no one and that’s the price we pay. G’s are brought up into the world and G’s leave every day. We deal with the issues in life either way without a doubt. Haters can’t keep his name out of their mouth. The OG TX Hustler Chilly D is taking over the San Antonio streets for 2000.
Too Far Gone (Remix) is a remix of the 1997 track Too Far Gone. The volume was adjusted to a higher level on this remix. The song 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.
At the beginning 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.”
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.
Hustle On was another classic in San Antonio rap that was overlooked by many in the state of Texas. San Antonio rap legend was on a verse for this song and so was Lady Lunatic of Suthern Merchandise (Southern Merchandise). The song has a slow tempo which follows a single beat over some low quality synths. Hustle On is about getting your business straight whether illegal or legal.
No one can fade Chilly D now. His hustle is on a come up. He’s got what it takes in a hard knock life. Chilly D is able to regulate his hustle and organized crime. People didn’t expect San Antonio to shine in the music industry and rap game as they are on their way to the top. Chilly D claims to be one of the best in the industry. (At least for San Antonio.) New customers come every day. They care how tough they are in Texas.
Lil Sin came from nothing. Now he is rolling with a pistol. He is cutting down busters. His left hand is on his chrome handgun. Get your hustle on. Don’t be scared to bring your shit out the back door. Mr. Po Po, why you moving slow? Lil Sin is trying to make a clean getaway by going out of the window. Him and Chilly D are kings of the East Side. Ya’ll niggaz in the game aren’t ready for Lil Sin. So get your hustle on if it’s necessary.
Hustle on. People go for broke in San Antonio. Lady Lunatic be posted up at Alazan Apache Courts on the West Side getting ready to bust raps, rhymes, and lyrics. Lady Lunatic is going to represent. We gon’ ball til we fall.
Ever heard of survival of the fittest? Well that is what the song Survival Of Da Hustla (Remix) about. Survival of the most fit hustlers set on making the most amount of money in the drug game while involved in organized crime. 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.
C What I C! gives us details on the viewpoints of Chilly D’s perspective about life. Is this world ready for Chilly D? I don’t think so. Ricé plays a funky guitar on the song.
Geto Gangzta Part 2 was produced by Hunt Dawg and not Ricé as people would have you believe. Hunt Dawg was an in-house producer for Chilly D’s Hunt Dawg Records label who produced Geto Gangsta. This song about ghetto life and is a representation of ghetto life.
3/5***
The Growth album by Tee Double stands out as being a more Jazz oriented album than a Hip Hop/Rap album. Tee Double is known for using Jazz samples and Jazz sounds throughout in his music. Take Lost Scriptures, Mirage, The Jazz sound is more prevalent on The Growth album than on any other of Tee Double's albums. Think Jazz rap in this case. That's how The Growth album stands out more than any of Tee Double's albums. The Growth represents Tee Double’s growth as an artist, lyricist, producer, and emcee.
Tee Double brings us into throwback mode with Bringing It Back. Tee Double brings us to the old school rap technique of simple backpack rap with simple raps. The drums and beats are similar to a Jazz drum kit with a new school modern pop sound. The drums are sped to an upbeat mode. Bringing It Back was featured on the hit television series Breaking Bad.
The song The Growth represents Tee Double’s growth as an artist, lyricist, producer, arranger, and emcee. The Growth uses a jazz sample of course. No matter what happens in the world, Tee Double just keeps on improving with his lyrics and production.
Natural Phlow is an organic all original rap song performed by Tee Double himself and features no guest artists.
Feel The Vibe has an upbeat funky live sound and vibe backed by a funky guitar. Not surprising since this song is a live recording. This song appeared on his 2004 album The Lone Star LP. Boombox ATX is the band that performs on Feel The Vibe.
Tee Double practices his vocal laps on the track Vocal Laps. Rap meets Jazz on Vocal Laps. Think Jazz Rap. The raps are perfect and on point not to mention relevant to the track. No matter what happens in the world, Tee Double just keeps on improving with his lyricism. That’s why he keeps running and doing vocals.
5/5*****!
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Chilly D – Too Far Gone album review
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. 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.
5/5*****!
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Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 album review
Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 was another gangsta rap album from San Antonio, Texas that got overlooked due to a lack of promotion and limited distribution. The album has such a brash thuggish lyrics with a street-savvy mentality. This whole album is aggressive in nature and style. Topics on this album range from prostitution, drug dealing, hustling, and other criminal activity.
The album also features Nino, Lil Sin, Lady Lunatic, Tosha T., Mr. Geto, DRE, SAOG Family, West Side Thugz, and Tear Drop make an appearances. This album released on Hunt Dawg Records in 2000 on CD and cassette formats.
Some of the songs on this album such as Too Thuggish 4 U, C What I C!, Do U Feel?, Geto Gangzta Part 2, Survival Of Tha Hustler (Remix), Too Far Gone (Remix), and Hommiez Gone were produced by Ricé at his studio called 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 on various parts of this album.
Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 is one of the most overlooked gangsta rap albums from San Antonio, Texas and is Chilly D’s second album. All of Chilly D albums are overlooked and overpriced. His albums sell for astronomical prices when sold online.
However the album is not as good as his debut album due to the lack of Ricé’s presence in production, lyrical content, and number of guest artists featured. Here are the factors as to what led this album to not be as much of a classic underground hit as his debut album.
•Some of the guests artists of the SAOG Family aren’t exactly the best lyricists or rappers on the mic. The number of guest artists featured is a lot and lets us know that Chilly D can’t necessarily hold down his own weight on his tracks as a rapper.
•Most of the lyrical content and subject matter is nothing new. Many rappers have spoken about drugs and crime. That is nothing new.
•Ricé was not as “hands-on” with this album as he was with his debut album a few years earlier in 1997. Ricé had his hands on producing so many other albums for San Antonio rap artists at the time also. That’s why he only produced 6 out of 16 songs on this album. Hunt Dawg produced the rest.
•The lack of promotion was another factor that led this album to be not as good as his debut album.
Too Thuggish 4 U serves as the intro and opener. The intro serves a memoir and biography of Chilly D which tells us about his time in the county jail to the penitentiary and the story of his life basically. Chilly D projects his hostility towards the world on this song. Ricé arranged and produced the beats.
He can’t quit living a criminal lifestyle. He got into a life of crime and became a victim when his mother moved into the Rigsby Courts housing projects on the East Side of San Antonio. (Although Chilly D claims Rigsby Courts on the East Side, he has ties with the West Side with Alazan Apache Courts.) So he grew up with hopelessness feeling helpless. What do you expect when someone grew up around criminals, convicts, addicts, and drug dealers? He’s been around fiends all his life.
It’s not a fairytale. He tells stories about the darker side of life. Time waits for no one and that’s the price we pay. G’s are brought up into the world and G’s leave every day. We deal with the issues in life either way without a doubt. Haters can’t keep his name out of their mouth. The OG TX Hustler Chilly D is taking over the San Antonio streets for 2000.
Too Far Gone (Remix) is a remix of the 1997 track Too Far Gone. The volume was adjusted to a higher level on this remix. The song 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.
At the beginning 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.”
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.
Hustle On was another classic in San Antonio rap that was overlooked by many in the state of Texas. San Antonio rap legend was on a verse for this song and so was Lady Lunatic of Suthern Merchandise (Southern Merchandise). The song has a slow tempo which follows a single beat over some low quality synths. Hustle On is about getting your business straight whether illegal or legal.
No one can fade Chilly D now. His hustle is on a come up. He’s got what it takes in a hard knock life. Chilly D is able to regulate his hustle and organized crime. People didn’t expect San Antonio to shine in the music industry and rap game as they are on their way to the top. Chilly D claims to be one of the best in the industry. (At least for San Antonio.) New customers come every day. They care how tough they are in Texas.
Lil Sin came from nothing. Now he is rolling with a pistol. He is cutting down busters. His left hand is on his chrome handgun. Get your hustle on. Don’t be scared to bring your shit out the back door. Mr. Po Po, why you moving slow? Lil Sin is trying to make a clean getaway by going out of the window. Him and Chilly D are kings of the East Side. Ya’ll niggaz in the game aren’t ready for Lil Sin. So get your hustle on if it’s necessary.
Hustle on. People go for broke in San Antonio. Lady Lunatic be posted up at Alazan Apache Courts on the West Side getting ready to bust raps, rhymes, and lyrics. Lady Lunatic is going to represent. We gon’ ball til we fall.
Ever heard of survival of the fittest? Well that is what the song Survival Of Da Hustla (Remix) about. Survival of the most fit hustlers set on making the most amount of money in the drug game while involved in organized crime. 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.
C What I C! gives us details on the viewpoints of Chilly D’s perspective about life. Is this world ready for Chilly D? I don’t think so. Ricé plays a funky guitar on the song.
Geto Gangzta Part 2 was produced by Hunt Dawg and not Ricé as people would have you believe. Hunt Dawg was an in-house producer for Chilly D’s Hunt Dawg Records label who produced Geto Gangsta. This song about ghetto life and is a representation of ghetto life.
3/5***
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