Another one that sounds a lil out of place among the smoky rap dungeon that is Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, "D.E.E.P." brings closure to their debut album on an energetic note. Over a beat that's half jazz plucking and half voyage to the moon, our boys dispel a handful of stereotypes and proudly stand by a couple more. I'm thinkin this could've gone a little further than it did, but then the numbers say I only gave it a five and numbers don't lie. The deeper than a prostitute's vagina line was probably what turned me off in the moment, but there's plenty else here to love.
Choice lyrical nugget: "You hairy bastard, work a little bit faster / Because of the **** that I done been through, I shall never call you master / You D-E-V-I-L, the cave is where you dwell / So stay up out the rain, it's beginning to smell like dog, yeah / I wonder how you would be acting if you was in my shoes / You'd probably **** your tight ass draws cause I got a short ass fuse"
Kang and I are ****ing mad as hell now, this is a beautifully low-key slice of trip hop that doesn't go recognized as such. Along with one other, this is what Kang mainly was referring to when speaking of Cee Lo's amazing contributions to their canon. Not that it has any difficulty standing on its own. Those guitar licks, the off-kilter drum beat, Andre's Jimi Hendrix singing, the "GIRL, what's yo FREQUENCY? and can I come there, FREQUENTLY?", the spoken outro, Kang and I crying.
Choice lyrical nugget: "I don't know but, it seem like uh, your daddy must have gave you / A teaspoon of honey every night before you went to bed / Or was it a pack of Now & Laters cause you're the sweetest thing on my head /And I'd like to say that I'd love to make love to every molecule of you / And if you want to spontaneously combust that's what we'll do -- in unison"
Kang and I are ****ing mad as hell now, this is a beautifully low-key slice of trip hop that doesn't go recognized as such. Along with one other, this is what Kang mainly was referring to when speaking of Cee Lo's amazing contributions to their canon. Not that it has any difficulty standing on its own. Those guitar licks, the off-kilter drum beat, Andre's Jimi Hendrix singing, the "GIRL, what's yo FREQUENCY? and can I come there, FREQUENTLY?", the spoken outro, Kang and I crying.
Choice lyrical nugget: "I don't know but, it seem like uh, your daddy must have gave you / A teaspoon of honey every night before you went to bed / Or was it a pack of Now & Laters cause you're the sweetest thing on my head /And I'd like to say that I'd love to make love to every molecule of you / And if you want to spontaneously combust that's what we'll do -- in unison"
The backdrop is the chillest of the chill, but it's easy to hear tension building underneath the calm. Fittingly, as we approach the end of the ATLiens record, it's time for Big and Dre to meditate over some of the problems we face today as a society. Coming straight from the ATL though, these two are out of this world and they will surely save us. I don't like Big Boi's line about taking a life = taking a ****, but eh, they spittin good. It would work well enough as the outro to an out-of-this-world album, but fortunately they've got something much better still tucked away for us...
Choice lyrical nugget: "Only cultivate the stable dirt when I skeet my drops / No concentrating knocking other ****** out the box /Why? Cause in a sense see we all be kind of fly / Just can't be scared to spread your wings, head to better things / Maybe the mockingbird and nightingale they want to sing / Keeping this thing alive, to the table's what we bring / We like hailstorms and blizzards in the middle of the spring / Extraterrestrial"
