That’s when real sample digging and discovery started. I knew I was stuck when I heard the Holy Thursday sample and I can promise that I owe my journey to understanding the purpose of Hip-Hop to 1999. It randomly played on my SoundCloud shuffle. Summary: For an “extra material mixtape” (Hence the name), Rejex contains some fantastic tracks, good flow, and manages to tease some of the excitement for a debut album, despite being kind of inconsistent.The first song I heard off 1999 was Righteous Minds. Also, the album doesn’t maintain the best sonic continuity, as the 1990s feel of 1999 is interrupted by cheap Wal-Mart keyboard beats, but again, this mixtape is pretty solid, especially since it’s really kind of an afterthought to 1999 earlier this year. However, a little more variation in songs would have helped this tape quite a bit. I wouldn’t call it monotone, as it isn’t exactly boring. Also, the whole album is kind of mellow and chill, with not much change in pace. Some of the tracks also feel more like ideas than actual songs, which is understandable due to the reasoning for this tape, but it still happens. I have a few nitpicky problems with the tape, including the rare off-feeling production I mentioned earlier. In fact, the lack of hard tracks makes it really feel like the albums by Wu-Tang and MF Doom that he adores. He doesn’t have any harder tracks like those that were on 1999, but the tape still works. Joey Bada$$ retains his solid flow, which on this tape is calm without being boring, and intricate without sounding overly ostentatious. The samples express the stories of the songs to a greater degree without overwhelming them. The Ol Dirty Bastard sample on DSL works great as well. on Oh, Deer, they accent the songs of the album without overshadowing the songs. There’s more recognizable speaking-samples throughout the album, whether it’s Obi-Wan Kenobi on both Fantom and Silent Night, or comedian Louis C.K. This album has a few sonic differences from 1999, and they work fine here. Since the production is done by top notch, golden era producers, most of them are fantastic (Save the very cheap, fake sounding Silent Night, Little Racheland somewhat out-of-place Update)
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Unlike other mixtapes full of other people’s beats (Such as Lil Wayne’s pretty-bad Dedication 4 earlier this week), Joey takes the beats and makes them his own.
Beats from Madlib and MF Doom have old school, funky feels to them, and Joey Bada$$’s style, which is decidedly “retro”, goes over this production fantastically.
And it’s made of throw away material! Like 1999, here he raps over beats from the 90s era of Hip-Hop that he emulates, rather than using his own production. Rejex kind of acts as leftovers, as these are all tracks that Joey decided to omit from 1999. Since that is the situation with this tape, it only goes to show how talented Joey is because this mixtape, while not as great as 1999, is very solid. Thursday, Joey Bada$$ dropped another mixtape this year, called Rejex. Then he dropped his debut mixtape, 1999, which is easily one of the best mixtapes released so far this year.
First he dropped the video and song Survival Tactics, which is a pretty aggressive, ominous track. His refreshing style, which revitalizes that late 90s Hip-Hop from the Wu-Tang era, has captured the Hip-Hop community by storm. Joey Bada$$ has had quite the 2012 so far.
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