Freeload: Diamond + DJ Smallz, “Pardon My Swagg” Mixtape
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Seems like we’ve been rocking Diamond’s last mixtape, Ms. Boujhetto, consistently for about a year—particularly her take on “Run Up Get Dun Up,” which has become our fight club anthem, and is reprised here. This one is more classic Diamond shoe-swagging and fist-popping—tres boujhetto, we luh you. P.M.S. (Pardon My Swagg) is a genius title, gracias for injecting a little unapologetic estrogen into this Southern rap thing and doing a bunch of remixes including one with Nicole Wray, one of our favorite singers of all time. She also closes the circle with more classic skits/outros/monologues/shout-outs, always high points on her shit.
Diamond + DJ Smallz, “Pardon My Swagg” Mixtape (via Dirty Glove Bastard)
Dirty Pretty Thangs
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Lil Jon is giving “cRunk-N-B” a bad name. Techically, he’s the one who named the subgenre in the first place, but after three million (ok, maybe more like, seven) identical-yet-slightly-different 100 BPM pop club bangers built off the synth whistle & 808 template, it’s ENOUGH ALREADY, JONATHAN!
Fortunately DJ Smallz of Southern Smoke fame stepped up to the plate with the latest edition of his Dirty R&B mixtape, showcasing a grip of tracks which sound nothing like “Goodies, Pt. 5″ – like a sick collab between Joi, Bun B, and Pastor Troy, a Sleepy Brown track we hadn’t heard before, and the surprisingly hot new Mariah Carey single (for serious!) Pick this up before the Crunkster strikes again…
