Streetsweepers presents Papoose - 21 Gun Salute

Finally returning to the game that he once owned alongside Kay Slay, the original hardest working man on the mixtape circuit, Papoose, drops his newest tape "21 Gun Salute". Good lawd man! We needed this I think....Who would of known I'd miss Kay Slay yelling all over the intros interludes and outros, lol......I know I definitely was missing all those good productions from GQ Beats and E-Dubb....

Pap shows no sign of rust here on his twenty first tape and displays he still has the gift of gab and witty street vocabulary from the previous twenty tapes. Every verse sounds thought out, and Pap clearly is out on a mission this time around.

The lyrical barrages get no better than on "Let's Get It", provided by Philly upstart Young Chris who fires verses rapidly with Pap over a penetrating beat. Moving forward, "Knowledge Is Freedom" pairs Pap up with one of the best to ever do it in AZ, and finds the two reciting their best "I don't give a fuck" type raps over one of the more memorable beats from back in 08'. Another notable highlight is the Green Lantern produced track "Run Down On Em'", which bangs somethin serious. Green still be gettin busy on the boards man....Don't know what the fuck he was thinkin with that "I Can Help You Get Off" joint tho.....

While those tracks specifically stuck out to me, make no mistake, there's few times when Pap's rhymes didn't entertain, enlighten and motivate on here. Prime examples being the visual "Graffitti", The head nodding "Brooklyn" and the powerfully somber "Take These Bars". I also really liked Pap's "Baby Love", a dope re-working of The Supreme's iconic record from decades ago that finds Papoose paying tribute to all the truly special women and mother's out there. I grew up listening to that record wit my mama and I can think of no better theme for it in a Hip-Hop song. The few joints I coulda done without are the heavily recycled "Six Million Ways To Die" and "Bitchassness", which sounded very rushed. Other than that, the majority of the track/freestyle's the Brooklynite doles out on "21 Gun Salute" are solid.

All the 90's mixtape heads be sure to peep out that "Hat Under My Hood", it's produced by the one and only DJ Rob-E-Rob, and finds Pap assassinating all the lame muthafuckas who use the word "Swagger"....I'm glad someone else can't that shit either.

-BIG D O






01. Intro 00:42
02. The Wire (Prod by GQ Beats) 03:14
03. Hat Under My Hood (Prod by DJ Rob-E-Rob) 03:18
04. Let's Get It (feat. Young Chris) 01:47
05. Run Down On Em (Prod by Green Lantern) 02:58
06. Knowledge Is Freedom (feat. A.Z.) (Prod by Absolute) 03:26
07. Brooklyn 03:03
08. Bitchassness 04:03
09. Six Million Ways To Die (feat. Bun-B & Chamillionaire) 04:12
(Prod by Stay Gettin & Kayslay)
10. All That (Produced by: E-dubb) 03:48
11. If You Saw Me In A Line Up 04:05
12. Take These Bars 03:16
13. We Shall Overcome 03:48
14. Get The Money (Prod by DJ Nu) 02:34
15. Baby Love 04:00
16. Street Code (Prod by Ty Sticks) 03:41
17. Dirty York shit (Prod by Ty Sticks) 04:08
18. Graffitti 03:17
19. Live & Learn 03:28
20. Break Um Up (feat. Thug-A-cation) (Prod by GQ Beats) 03:26
21. I Can Help You Get Off (Produced by: Green Lantern) 02:15
22. Kay Slay Outro 00:21

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