Recent Mixtape Report

Donnis’ Snack Pack Volume 1 and 2, both released in the past few weeks, are part of a series of weekly mixtapes Donnis is releasing, presumably to hype his upcoming album “Southernfuturisticferarrithumpmuzik” also known as “Why in God’s Name Would Anyone Name a Mixtape Anything This Long?” All the mini mixtapes contain two songs. The four that have been released so far are pretty average lyrically by Donnis standards, but all four have some pretty great beats on them. Benjamin Franklin, the best song of the four beat wise and the only one I would recommend for downloading if you’re not a big Donnis fan, contains features from Jay Ant and IAMSU.  Although all four of these songs are pretty mediocre in my opinion, I’m still excited for his upcoming album and think it’s potentially going to be one of the better albums in 2012.

Download Snack Pack Volume 1 here.

Download Snack Pack Volume 2 here.

Chuck Inglish, member of The Cool Kids and producer, recently produced his first solo project entitled “WRKING”. It’s a tape of beats, and I had two major struggles with this album.

1)      I had trouble finding my least favorite beat.

2)      I had trouble deciding which one was my favorite.

Seriously, this tape is pretty amazing, but expected no less from a producer with as much talent as Chuck. If you like beats, or enjoy background music while you relax, or have a pulse, I would advise that you download this and put it on repeat.

Download WRKING here.

“Tell Ya Friends” from Cleveland’s Chip Tha Ripper dropped a few days ago. It’s a mixtape that is very feature heavy, including CyHi Da Prince, Kid Cudi, Wale, Bun B, Krayzie Bone, and The Far East Movement. To me, this is Chip’s best work so far. It’s a 23 song tape that has a lot of good songs. Unfortunately, it suffers in a way that a lot of Chip’s songs do in that a lot of them sound extremely similar. His wordplay and flow is good in almost all of them, but so many of the songs are interchangeable and sound so similar that it’s almost boring to listen to the whole way through. Although a lot of the songs are similar, 25 Wives featuring Wale and Ride 4 You featuring Kid Cudi and The Far East movement are probably two of the best songs I have heard come out in 2012 in my opinion. If you’re going to download this tape, be warned that some songs will be good, and some you might have to delete.

Download Tell Ya Friends here.