Curren$y "Tha Hot Spitta"
I can admit when I'm wrong, unlike 99% of our planet. When you sleep on something, and then find out about it later on, it's almost like waking up and finding out that Christmas passed you by a week ago. You might still get the GI Joe with the kung-fu grip, but the thrill of opening it on that day is gone. Okay, maybe I took that analogy farther than it needed to be taken, but still, I can't believe that I slept on this dude. Curren$y aka Hotspitta is out of New Orleans and has been putting out mixtapes for the past two years. The only reason I was late on the bandwagon, is because he was affiliated for the longest with a dreadlocked, platinum grilled, eyebrow and lip-pierced, sometimes indecipherable rapper that I don't particularly subscribe to these days (for you stupid folk, Weezy F). I always felt like the only reason people really fucked with Curren$y (I hate having to write that damn dollar sign) was because he was with Wayne and because he's pretty fresh by today's label-obsessed standards. But that's neither here nor there. After a lazy Sunday of playing video games and watching Selection Sunday with the Hotspitta in the background, I've come to the conclusion that dude needs to be covered. He's not only dope with the wordplay, but he always rides his beats perfectly, something that can't be said about Wayne all the time. His production is on point, too. Here are a few videos and my picks for the first Curren$y mixtape I've ever listened to:
This mixtape made me into a believer.
He can ride a beat as good as anyone out right now.
I couldn't blog about dude without talking about his kick game. A little on the hype bandwagon, but a dope collection nonetheless.