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A lot of the new mixtape artists that jump on the scene these days are very much apart of the reason why Hip-Hop has become diluted and boring. They're lazy, uninspired and they don't even polish their product before they put it on the street. If you really wanted to find a sizable amount of good, up and coming talent the mixtape scene used to be an absolute breeding ground, brimming with a bunch of new, raw ass lyricists that coulden't put out enough crazy material basically for free. Now what you see is pretty much what you don't get on a tape man. A rapper will talk the meanest game on one of these ultra ignorant and oversaturated DVD's floating around the net about how he gets money and gets down in the booth, but when his tape finally turns up it's certified ear poison. You get choppy verses that sound like they were written the night before and a guy who sounds fuckin stupid; rhyming about drugs he never sold, guns he didn't bust and women he never hit off....enter in Big Lou, the latest mixtape wonder to be discovered by a guy (Kay Slay) who has in recent years proven to be a great marketer and proveyer of talent, remember he didn't give Saigon, The Diplomats and Papoose their start, but he revived their careers
somethin serious when they were at a crossroads. His new artist is a cat that hails from one of the grimiest places in the world; Camden, NJ....and he lets it be known, wielding tales of how broke, desolate and trying it is to live there. Big Lou is a complete return to what grass roots underground hip-hop should be and once was. His poignant and gripping tales range from everything as painful as spousal abuse to drug addiction and Lou is never afraid to bear his soul to the masses. He is a gifted latino MC, who unlike many in the past doesen't really have to make light of that fact in order to succeed, he has no schtick and he doesen't need gimmicks, He simply kicks real talk and pays homage to the great one who came before him. Hey who says hip-hop is dead?
-BIG D O
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