(The title is a perplexing pun/not-pun on the name of NBA all-star Kevin Durant and it fits right in with his Lebron Flocka James mixtape series.) Most of those songs have been way tinnier and more tiresome than the ones on Flockaveli, but DuFlocka Rant ends the downward slide. "I must drop 100 songs per month," Flocka says on the intro to DuFlocka Rant V.1: 10 Toes Down, his latest tape, and he's probably not exaggerating. But it's more interesting to hear that sound spread its tendrils across rap, as different rappers and producers put their own spins on the rabid boom.įlocka himself has been absurdly prolific in the months since Flockaveli, cranking out mixtape after mixtape without significantly changing his simplistic, guttural, adlib-heavy style. 1, the new crew album from Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group, and you'll hear exactly what watered-down Luger sounds like. That's still happening take one listen to Self Made, Vol. When that record first came out, producers all across the rap landscape did their best to imitate the bombastic blare of producer Lex Luger, and Luger himself stayed busy, cranking out track after track for ever-bigger names and turning his sound into a franchise. A few months ago, the first edition of this column focused on the slate of mixtapes that came out in the immediate wake of Waka Flocka Flame's Flockaveli, the roaring, zero-subtlety collection of crunk-revival bangers that's served as one of the most influential rap albums of the past year or so.
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