Mixtape: D.R.U.G.S.
Artist: Flatbush Zombies
Released: July 27, 2012
Snort your bath salt to this one. Zombie apocalypse bitches. Not since Six Feet Deep by the Gravediggaz has there been a record quite like this. Now you can safely toast 2 cupz of blood to the gods of this rap shit and not worry about Count Rackula biting back. Thankfully grimey still does exist. And with that being said, this record is not perfect, but does it bang in the whip..? Check. Is there solid bar work? Yes. So when you break it down at the end of the day, everything is mad wavy.
Flatbush makes me wanna “carry a zig on my hip with an extra clip, cuz I’d rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6…” And these cats must’ve dug their way out of the casket with this one. It’s black magic and groovy Portishead like darkness. Expect mad clouds of dank to drift out of your speakerboxx. It’s gonna have you lighting candles in the cemetery at midnight and playing on your Ouija boards. It’s not quite dub-step and not all hip hop, but the soundscape on D.R.U.G.S. will definitely getchu bubbling bongs til the sun rises.
If you got a dark sense of humor, this album will have you rolling like a Tim Burton flick. Pour out that Miss Buttersworth to “Thug Waffle” and lean with it. Drain your 40 water to “Face-Off.” And the Roy Ayers sample on “Friday” will have you ready to live your life in the sunshine, even though most of this album might represent more of a vampire lifestyle. It’s ubiquitous. The second half of the project takes a soulful turn with the instrumentals. This is definitely a good look for New Yitty. Raw shit. “Money be the mission, dope by the kitchen, purp by the pound, this rap game be different.”
“Face chewing, blunt sparking & forty drinking are all government approved activities during onset of imminent zombie attack.”
And the Flatbush Zombies are definitely killing shit on this album. D.R.U.G.S. runs a little long at 16 tracks, but It’s hard to pinpoint exactly where the album drags its feet. The project does get better with each listen, especially if you indulge in the sticky icky. But in a rap world over saturated with rozay, bad bitches, racks on racks on racks and designer clothes, it’s refreshing to have a pair of emcees ready to chew your face off on some gully shit before they are ready to throw a handful of one’s in the air.
Download the album here.
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