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After releasing bangers like “Country Shit” and stealing a few scenes with his guest spots (see Curren$y‘s “Skybourne”), Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. has quickly made a name for himself as one of the best new Southern MCs in the game. And while his new mixtape Return of 4eva features some bold-face names (David Banner, Bun B, Ludacris, Chamillionaire), K.R.I.T. outshines all of them by spitting some amazing rhymes. Here’s five that stand out:
1. Selling music via ringtones on “American Rapstar”
“An A&R once told me ‘you can determine the worth of a song within 15 seconds after playin’, / With complete and utter lack of the fact that it takes all three minutes and 40 seconds of a song to comprehend what I’m sayin’, / It ain’t a single if it don’t fly, / It ain’t a hit if it don’t ride. / Now he couldn’t tell me the components of a smash, but the ringtones were the all-time high, / And a rapper’s only as big as his chain– the flashier, the better.”
2. Rap heroes on “Free My Soul”
“You ghetto famous to us, you just Bojangles to them, / Tap yo feet, tip yo brim, and sell it back to yo kin.”
3. Economic theory on “King’s Blues”
“I can’t depend on that next check ’cause it ain’t vouched yet, / The type of broke that got me searchin’ through my mama’s couch. / With some loose change, I got that dollar menu: / McDouble, a small fry, the main sweet tea blended, / Now here it is Monday, / But it gotta get me through ’til Wednesday, / It’ll cure them hunger pains, / Even though it ain’t fulfillin’, / I make do with what God give me, / And I take it day by day.”
4. Mortality through a Kurt Cobain lens on “The Vent”
“How can the devil take my brother if he’s close to me / When he was everything I wasn’t but I hoped to be? / I get a little honest and I ask myself, / If the time come, will you save me when I ask for help? / I sent my mind on the journey to the outermost, / To document what it had seen and CC me the notes, / And ask Kurt Cobain, ‘Why?’, ’cause I need to know, / He stopped when had such a long way to go.”
5. Sweat-pant nostalgia on “Time Machine”
“Take me way back, Scarface and a tapedeck, / Ridin’ with my papa, rockin’ a starter and some gray sweats. / Gave me game as we roll down 8th Street, / Niggas out here flexin’, don’t be stressing what you can’t be.”
Check out Return of 4eva here.
