The Infamous Mobb Deep!!!! Hardcore Rap stalwarts since 1993's "Juvenile Hell". I can safely say that I grew up with Mobb Deep's music considering I was 7 or 8 when that seminal album dropped and I've been hooked ever since. I often wondered how they were going to fare in the 00's since their last "great" album was "Infamy" and started to lose their stronghold with "Amerikas Nightmare" and completely fell off with "Blood Money" and "The Safe is Cracked". So now here we are at the ass end of 2011 and "P" is finally home from his bid...Yeah KICKO its time to reunite the powers Dunn! "Black Cocaine" is a EP and its sole purpose is to whet the palate of the fans until the Self-Titled album drops somtime in 2012. Let's see if the appetizer is any good.
1. Dead Man Shoes ft. Bounty Killer-What's this?! No singing?! Bounty Killer on the hook?! Sinister Beat and Hav AND P spitting their regular thuggisms...Let me take my slippers off and put my TIMBS and Carhartt hoodie on...This is Hard Hat rap!.. 1/1
2. Black Cocaine-Yeah this is the sound I miss right here. This is the song that officially brings the Mighty Mobb into this decade....Vintage beat thanks to none other than the honorary third member of Mobb Deep, The Alchemist..DOPE! 2/2
3. Conquer- "You Hear That?, That Means We Coming". Words from Havoc, and the way the track sounds and feels, Triumphant horns and hard bass, you kinda feel like your standing dead in the middle of QB...3/3
4. Get It Forever ft. Nas- Sheesh! That sample is GORE-GEOUS, I ran it back 5 times before the song even starts. Nas, Hav and P all sound like they found that Delorean and took it back to 95-96...nothing wrong with that...4/4
5. Last Days-Personally...when compared to the rest of the EP this beat sounds the most out of place. Its kinda glossy, its more suited for that CNN comeback album..Its all good tho, While Hav decides to talk about Bugattis, P decides to talk H.N.I.C. ish and complements the tracks nicley...4.5/5
And just like that, its over. A simple but effective dose of that DOPE that I've been waiting for since 2003.
This should appease a lot of the long time Mobb Deep fans while we collectively await the release the of "Mobb Deep". If that album maintains the same energy and pace of Black Cocaine...we all might O.D.
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