As much as I liked Bankroll Fresh's Life Of A Hotboy tape, it was little more than a workmanlike exercise in highly competent rapping. Bankroll (nee Yung Fresh) got skills, but IDK if he has the personality to jump from good to great. No one's expecting him to have the same charisma of Gucci, but on this 2013 Zaytoven jawn he gets killed on his own shit by Rocko channeling Plies. The late, flamboyantly eye-patched Doe B also gets in on the action. Side note: what are the odds that Doe B got shot by another eye-patched dude? Eye for an eye for real; that's some Spy vs. Spy type beef.
This 2009 cut, again produced by Zay, finds Fresh rapping inna OJ Da Juiceman style. It's always a good look to bite OJ, the most influential rapper of the past 10 years, but as a creative writing teacher might say, Bankroll, you need to put more of yourself in the work!
"Faces" has Yung Ralph and Fresh goin over yet another vintage Zay beat, with Gucci in the late So Icey Era. Hearing the exuberance in Gucci's voice makes me miss 2008, before his work took a paranoid turn. Someone gotta divide Gucci's shit into different eras cause he's on some Picasso shit like that. Right now he sounds like he's rappin thru a down comforter after sleeping off five gravy-boats of Actavis. He peeks thru the blinds lookin for thieves in the night, back aching cause he fell asleep on a 40 cal. Gucci's Loner Period or his Grey Era?
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