Curren$y – “Smokee Robinson” (Mixtape Review)

The Quick Summary

See, here’s my problem with this mixtape. It’s nothing new, nothing original, nothing mind-blowing…

In a sense, Curren$y’s new mixtape is exactly what mixtapes USED to be: a compilation of songs that an artist put together and on that mixtape, you’d maybe find 4 or 5 tracks you could put on repeat. Hopefully, those four or five tracks could be so dope, you’d forget the rest of the mixtape was garbage.

Unfortunately for Curren$y…it’s 2010. The mixtape market has changed, and unless you elevate your game you’ll be left behind. In the current age of mixtape-albums and original mixtape concepts, this mixtape here is just not going to cut it.

I’ve heard better from Curren$y, and there’s not one real song that stands out on this mixtape for me because of Curren$y. That basically means that the cameos to me stole some of C’s own thunder from him on his own mixtape. C sounded bored the whole time, and his punchlines and flow was just a drag to listen to, honestly.

This is not his best. I’m glad to see that he’s still doing music after being signed and then dropped/released/whatever from Cash Money, but in order to keep up with the other people, he’s going to have to either revert completely to his old ways or diversify his rapping topics. Quickly. – K1ng Eljay