His classical Southern influences run as diverse as Juvenile, Outkast, Houston-area screw music, and Erykah Badu. His ability to do this track after track is the strength of this project, which I'd call his best work since Live from the Underground in 2012. I recognized the homage immediately and fell in love with the way he put an old school spin on a new sound. I handle my biz it's multi or it's nothin'" I know what it is I keep it Southern when I'm bussin "I'm a paper chaser I got my stock up high After a freestyle that included provocative bars such as "Never wanted more than I needed, just tryna maintain / Make a couple moves and show my brothers the same thang," KRIT descends into a slow, melodic hook, still in tune with the beat from "Rambo," but simultaneously drawing on the rhythm from the hook to New Orleans-based rapper Juvenile's 1999 classic "Ha" from his 400 Degrees album.
I was slow-three days-to finish the entire mixtape because once I reached track six, a gritty tale of frustration, anger, and perseverance set to Bryson Tiller's "Rambo," I played it on repeat for two straight days, hanging on to every word and every note, two minutes and 23 seconds at a time, again and again. In doing this, he takes us for a ride temporally, from the mid-90s to now, and geographically, from Dallas to Houston to New Orleans to Atlanta and coming to rest in rural Mississippi, where he sets his stories and ponders what it means to be from Mississippi relative to the north and those other places. He pulls us in with the allure of contemporary hit songs then draws on his Southern rap predecessors to build links between past musical influences and today.
BIG KRIT ALBUMS AND MIXTAPES SERIES
He takes a series of well-known beats and transforms them, both sonically and substantively. But more than a simple mutual enjoyment, I was thrilled by the type-the type of generational bridging and nostalgia KRIT, a native of Meridian, Mississippi, was able to elicit in less than half an hour. The next day a friend enthusiastically texted, "AND THEN THE ERYKAH BADU SENSIBILITIES ON 'OTHER SIDE OF THE GAME.'"Įach time I reveled in our mutual enjoyment of Big KRIT's new mixtape 12 For 12, a project composed of twelve freestyles that he released on Sound Cloud on July 6. I responded, "Nigga think he Erykah Badu so bad." A few weeks ago my sister texted me, "And 'Other Side of the Game.' Nigga was legit singing."
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