Bad boy blaq is the last of Chocolate City's LAMB August releases.The expectations were AQ and Loose Kaynon with a pure form of the art.MI,a more flexible side to that purity and Blaqbonez,the inescapable reality album; the game as it is.How true to the culture and far from a vulture was he going to be?.That everyone looked forward to answering.
Judging from a couple of freestyles online,Blaq had shown he was quite enthusiastic about dropping bars than it may seem.Bad boy blaq was going to be essentially a modern day Mc with more recent influences finding the right rhythm between spawning tasty ear candies stacked with sing-alongs and groovy sound bites on one hand and sticking to the ever-constant basics of the art on the other.
Sadly,Bad boy blaq doesn't quite impress.More modestly put,he scratches the surface with little or no cutting edge to the songs on display.If there is one thing to love about the new era Mcs it is the energy and intensity they give towards creating a catchy vibe.Hold onto the key words-energy and intensity.
The singing rapper isn't quite one to impress with his chords but in as much as Play and Consent are good songs,a little more intensity would have lifted them to the realm of extraordinary.
He may be a better artiste than Bad boy blaq depicts but there is a gaping need to work more on his craft and the first step towards that is understanding his strengths and weaknesses.Accomodate and Denied have a nice ring to them but like in a couple more tracks,we see a rapper with little or no odds of dropping a line to remember trying to flex lyrical weight.That robs Woke of some shine as well.He is basically an artiste cut out for pleasant noise and not mind-blowing lyrics.
Being more pop inclined than the average Mc will give him an edge once he learns to make the most of his skills.Knowing when and how to apply what.Take Mamiwota which is a good attempt at mass appeal.A good instrumental and a nice hook by Oxlade but anything outside that needed more robustness than Blaq could generate.
No sparks,no surges.Bad boy blaq is an unexciting voyage through 10 tracks.
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