I Feel This

For many Texas fans is Lil 'Flip's first major album "Undaground Legend" a classic and still his best work. Therefore, the expectations of the successor "U Gotta Feel Me" from 2004, of course, very high. One year before the boom in Houston with Voes of Mike Jones, Chamillionaire, Bun B, Z-Ro, Paul Wall, etc. broke, flip managed to bring out a record that can compete with the other loose. Whether this would have been really necessary 2 CDs for 21 songs, I imagine times then, but a double-album is quite something more ago. Produced "U Gotta Feel Me" mostly from producer duo Play-N-Skillz, but also the Heatmakerz, The Synphony, DJ Paul & Juicy J, Red Spyda, Oomp Camp and David Banner contributed beats at.

Without intro, but the same with a real banger in the form of "I Came To Bring The Pain". Driving beats and dynamic strings and bells provide a aggressive mood, to send Flip only once a few greetings direction TI, then grab still Static, Ludacris and Tity Boy, where particularly Luda wegburnt lot. Slightly chilled it's going to "The Ghetto" to Sache.Zwar's all pretty fast, but the reggae riddims and blowers provide the necessary serenity that just great sounds with the flow of Flippers. "Bounce" can already guess from the title that it is a song for the clubs. Typical production of Play-N-Skillz with danceable beats and a rhythm that goes immediately into the joints and marrow, including me Lil 'Flip's flow again well pleases.

When I heard the lead single "Game Over (Flip)" at the time, I just could not help but immediately run to the store and buy me the album. The instrumental is pretty damn fresh because it Samplet the sounds of classic game Pac-Man. Underlaid with a fat bass that is going itself very well off, is topped by the next song "Sun Do not Shine". For the first time on this album to flip shows here his thoughtful side of what is happening over a beautiful melody that makes me so today shivers down your spine, especially the chorus is a real stunner. An anthem for the south will meet with "Represent", on the Texas, Tennessee and Mississippi in person from Flip, Three 6 Mafia and David Banner each other. The production took the whole of DJ Paul & Juicy J, correspondingly dark and crunk it is held, expressed in short: just fat!

"Rags 2 Riches" (feat. Will-Lean) is on the other hand some biographical and revolves around Flip's way from bottom to top, of course, no opportunity for showing off is omitted, but a fresher song. Apart from the somewhat hectic "Is not No Party" the rest of CD1 is kept very relaxed. Here I like besides the chilled "Check (Let's Ride)", in which you can mitrappen also good, especially "Dem Boyz". It has the typical Texas style a bit harder beats and a melody that sounds like something Country and this is well suited to smoothen recline. The lyrics are not really interesting here, for it shows flip that he can quickly spit rhymes. With the very slushy and R'n'B moderate "Sunshine" (feat. Lea) ends the first disc rather less to my taste, changed quickly from there.

Also CD2 begins with a bomb, namely the hard and slow thumping "Y'all Do not Want It", to which flip has exactly lined up with the Diplomats the right people, because their style fits perfectly to the man from Houston. A leap Georgia we do with "We Is not Playin '. Produced by Oomp Camp, moreover, Pastor Troy, Killer Mike and Baby D on the mic, all from Atlanta. Accustomed dark and hard blaring the Oomp Camp instrumental, perhaps a bit too slow, but quite good. My favorite here Pastor Troy, but the rest can not splash out, in addition Shawty Beezlee makes his roar in Hook for power and aggression. Completely different, namely melodic, laid back and damn funky comes "U Neva Know" with West Coast veteran Butch Cassidy around the corner, which shows the potential of the album.

A song I would like to hear about times in the club is, "Throw Up Yo 'Hood". It is kept in total a little faster, get through a few violins still some sharpness, but best of all is Lil 'Flip to its Rhymes you can sing along wonderfully. How it already knows from CD2 of "Undaground Legend", will also Screwed songs are included. This would "Drugz" and "Dem Boyz Remix", clearly a matter of taste, I like when then only the second. Almost mandatory on a rap album is a song for the old home and so we tell Lil Flip and his Clover G's Grafh, Gravy and Will-Lean on the quieter and a bit sad "Where I'm From", where they come from , The album end is equipped again with faster and clubby songs, namely "What's My Name" and "Is not No Nigga". Both are incredibly good, just it has the latter done to me, a very fat David Banner production that raises a Crunk feeling despite blues instruments, which is also thanks to Banner's roar. What a finale!

Even though I already own the disk a few years, I'll get them still extremely happy off the shelf, even more often than the other albums by Lil 'Flip. I think for many others of his fans and those who are on Down South Rap, which is likely to be similar. Here you really get a lot of great beats and good-humored MCs offer, therefore, a strong buy recommendation, not only for Texas friends, but for those who have a thing for the dirty south.