Left To Right: Young Dro, Spoon, Pill, Mannie Fresh, Flo-Rida
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
No big leaks or releases today, but we still came through with five solid songs that should satisfy the new music seekers. You know should know how this goes by now. MP3 streams and download links after the jump, as always. Keep reading to start listening to today’s playlist…
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ALBUM: R.I.P: I Killed That Shit
SOUNDS LIKE: Pretty much every other Young Dro mixtape which, if you’ve been following them, is not a bad thing.
FUN FACT: One of Young Dro’s best friends growing up was Chris “Daddy Mack” Smith (the light-skinned one) from Kris Kross.
WHY COMPLEX IS CO-SIGNING IT: Before he went away, the Rap Rambo b.k.a. T.I. made a trunk load of contingency plans (Paper Trail re-release, The Takers set to hit theaters) to ensure that his label still stacks paper while he serves a yearlong bid for weapons possession. Makes sense, seeing as Tip is Grand Hustle’s primary bread winner, but that doesn’t mean everyone else on the label can’t hold their own. While the boss is away, Young Dro is letting people know Grand Hustle still ain’t nothing to fuck with—and there’s no better evidence than the fact that Dro is still signed to them. After dropping his slightly lackluster Black Boy, White Boy tape with label mate Yung LA earlier this year, Dro returns to form with his DJ Don Cannon-assisted mixtape to get fans ready for his upcoming sophomore project P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once), and to prove that like Akon and Curtis, he can still kill.
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Left To Right: Young Dro, Chamillionaire, Tape Deck Mountain, Erick Sermon, Air
Each day Complex scours the music blogs for 5 fresh songs that you should listen to in our 5 O’Clock Shuffle post. Instead of going crazy trying to keep up with your RSS feeds everyday, just head over to Complex.com to stay up-to-date on important leaks and releases.
It’s that time again. Today’s selections come in the form of a pop effort from one of Houston’s best, zone out material from some California rockers, and a few more choice songs sure to keep your playlists on point. Start listening and downloading after the jump…
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Get familiar with Brenda Song. Not now, but right now. [Bastardly]
Check out two new tracks from Young Dro. [Nah Right]
These album covers for Guns N’ Roses and T-Pain might have been more appropriate. [Holy Taco]
Here’s the cleanest pics of Kanye’s Louis Vuitton shoes thus far. [High Snob]
Hotties in the wild. Oww. [DoubleViking]
Is she a tennis star or a porn star? Take the quiz. [CoedMag]
Eva Mendes looked simply stunning on Conan. [Lossip]
Afternoon pick you up: Sally Ferreira [Flisted]
We're not surprised Megan Fox had to pop a squat. Carrying those twos around takes it's toll. [Bastardly]
Young Dro comes back with a brand new track called “We Can Do It.” [Nah Right]
This sports anchor has porno on the mind. [Double Viking]
This dude always stood on his own two. Even when he was dead. [Neatorama]
Check out this new Nike Free Woven in a fall-friendly colorup. [High Snob]
It’s been a year since Atlanta native Yung L.A. signed with T.I. and Jason Geter’s Grand Hustle Records, and yet few outside of the A know who the newcomer is. But after the underground success of his latest mixtape Offset Shawty, it looks like the man born Leland Austin might finally have some momentum in his corner. To make the co-sign complete, the label’s biggest names, Tip and Dro, just hopped on the remix to his latest club anthem “Ain’t I.” Hear the song below.
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Young Dro might have a car the same color as Ric Flair hair, but does he have one that actually looks like a zebra? How about one that’s covered in clouds? No? Well, perhaps he should get on the next thing smokin’ and take a trip to Sweden to get some of Volvo’s brightly-colored C30 hatchback wraps.
The company is offering a line of 20 different wraps to their Swedish customers. At $3,130 a piece, they’re guaranteed to last for two years, after which they can be replaced or removed at no cost. After the jump, view four more eye-popping wraps.
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“I done been on crack; I've punched a girl out,” tells Young Dro. “One girl just met me and I paid all her notes and stuff!”
For the record, these were merely ludicrous rumors. Fittingly, Djuan “Young Dro” Hart addresses the illegitimate gossipmongers on “Don't Believe That Shit,” a Spanish-guitar-laced backhander off his debut, The Best Thang Smokin' (Grand Hustle/Atlantic).
Although Dro, born 27 good years ago in Bankhead, Atlanta, has far from reaped the commercial success of his patna' of 12 years and label honcho, T.I., the dark-skinned, agile, and flamboyant rapper is very much a bona fide star'and there's a price to pay for glistening that hard.
Not that Dro worries about hype or innuendo. He's refreshingly modest, a keen listener, and most impressively, he isn't the least bit shook to be funny. “I'm very jokeable,” he explains. “But in actuality, I use that to let you know I'm serious. Like I once told a girl: 'You keep laughing at me; I'mma laugh you right outta your panties!' And sex is not laughable.”
Equally not laughable is Dro's spit game. Articulate and charismatic to a fault, his debut showpiece is abundantly littered with rhymes and flows that are as callous as they are gracious. Over the machine-gun lazy bounce of “Gangsta Shit,” Dro strong-arms phrases and clauses just because he can. And even on the swagger-ridden, radio-friendly first single, “Shoulder Lean,” his cadence is exceptional; it's all in the way he manipulates his voice and tone.
Equally fascinating is how much ground the self-proclaimed Cartier boy's motley rap style covers. For as much as he loves Raekwon, Biggie, and 'Pac, he also idolizes Goo Goo Dolls, Staind, and Vanessa Carlton. Additionally he's a fan of mere mortals. You've just got to see him say it in his earnest, prosaic style: “I like people in general. I live for people; I live to see people live.”
By Omar Dubois
Photo by Tina Greenberg
