Down South, We Like Crunk Music!

Friday, September 12, 2008

1. Ludacris – Word Of Mouf - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4X9ixEj59w

2. Trick Daddy – Book Of Thugs: Chapter AK, Verse 47 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT1MwzqkPy8

3. Pastor Troy – By Any Means Necessary - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIJBTvjjFmw

4. Lil Boosie – Bad Azz (2005 Underground) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8BO-wFYFj8

5. Trick Daddy – www.Thug.com

6. Lil Webbie – Savage Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-5M159ngg

7. Trick Daddy – Thugs Are Us

8. Field Mob – From Tha Roota To Tha Toota - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J06RX5_Hx0

9. Pastor Troy – Stay Tru

10. Outkast – Stankonia - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewyp0GIxS-s

These albums are in no certain favorable order; I like them all. I enjoy singles more than whole albums of most artists, but these are albums that I could listen to all the way through without stopping.

I put Ludacris’ Word Of Mouf on here because Luda came with that fire on this album. Ludacris has to be the most talented rap artists alive today. Luda’s style is unique, his lyrics are raw and funny, and he never gives you the same recycled style; he always comes with something new. The best thing I like about Ludacris is his raw and funny lyrics.

I have rapper Trick Daddy on here three times as you can see. The reason I like Trick Daddy so much is because he is a hitmaker, and his music has been moving crowds since 1996. Every Trick Daddy song that has been put out has made me want to club (party). I like Trick Daddys’ raunchy style. Every album that he has put out (except for one) has the word thug in the title. He is unapologetic in his rhymes and he says what he wants to say; His whole style screams thug. The best thing about Trick Daddy is that he is real. He isn’t ashamed of his lifestyle in his music, and he tells you how he really lives. He is the thug that gets along with everyone, and everyone could get along with him; but if you cross Trick Daddy he will flip you.

Pastor Troy makes the list twice. Pastor Troy is my most favorite crunk artist. His music is the one that has you bouncing around the club, bowing people you don’t know. If a Pastor Troy song comes on I cannot sit still; I have to start two-steppin or shoving people. When you hear the word crunk most people think of Lil Jon, who brought it to the mainstream. But Pastor Troy has been putting it down way before it was popular. Pastor Troy, I say, is the most talented crunk artist.

Lil Boosie’s Bad Azz is an underground album that leaked in 2005. The reason that I like Boosie is because he is one of the realest, most raw artists out today in my opinion. Most of his songs talk about the street life, and when he raps about that street life I feel it in my soul. The way Boosie delivers his lyrics is what makes me feel it the most. Lyrically, Boosie is a beast. He doesn’t have any pop chart hits, but across the southern states, Boosie is real big.

Lil Webbie makes the list because he is one of the most filthy, raunchiest rappers of today, and I like his style. Webbie will say some things that are just unethical. He is someone I would like to be like if I didn’t have good sense. Webbie can be described best as a young and wild hood nigga, with money, cars, clothes, and hoes. He always carries his gun on him for haters, he is always getting blowed (smoking marijuana), and you always see him with a different female. He is the epitome of what living ghetto fabulous means.

Field Mob is a group that makes the list because they are real southern, and real country. They are from a small rural area just like me, and I can relate to them whole heartedly in their albums. If you ever wanted to know what it was like to be black, in poverty, and living in a rural area, then listen to Field Mob’s From Tha Roota To Tha Toota. I can vouch that it is the true interpretation of what it means to be Kuntry.

The last to make my list is Outkast. Outkast is so diverse in their music; they have been switching up their styles ever since they came out in ‘94. And the good thing about Oukast is that whenever they have come with something new, I have always felt it. They are risk takers in their music. By the drastic way they change their style on all of their albums, it could have been a total disaster for them; but their creativity has always been accepted by their fan base, and they have always attracted newer fan bases.