Unreleased Ish': Flipsyde - Long Time Comin' (prod. by DJ Premier)

In the never ending realm of all that is "unreleased", often times bloggers go overboard in their labeling of certain material as being "great", routinely making bone head statements like "why didn't they release this?, It's awesome!". The incessant dick riding usually comes as a byproduct of their fanboy'esque admiration of a particular artist or genre and the work they decided looked better on the shelf than in a retail venue, and opted to just let it fester in the proverbial "vault". LOL, that type of bias won't be found on this blog. No matter who you are, what work you've done or what part of the game your attached to, all that goes out the window when I review ya' shit. I give respect and high praise where it's due, but I tell it like it is, and if you don't like it than, well, you can go fly a kite with a key on it. This is journalism, this is raw, this is why people come here and read my shit-they know I'm going to give a real opinion. I think it's hilarious really, all the hurt feelings. Sometimes i'll keep it real and some groupie ass lil' guy who got his feelings hurt will start flappin his gums. Then two days later I'll get hit up by the actual artist saying that they "loved the review". LOL, shit kills me.

Here we have probably what will turn into the aforementioned situation.

Flipsyde is a Hip-Rock, fusion style type of band outta L.A.. Their meshing of the two most popular genres of the area and country has garnered them a lot of fans and afforded them some really unique opportunities. One such opportunity came back in 2005, and saw the band working worth Hip-Hop production legend extraordinaire, DJ Premier. I'm sure Premo had heard things about the band, tried their music on for size and I guess decided he was feeling their stuff enough to drop a track for em'. A track that would come to be known as (or not known as), "Long Time Comin'". It was supposed to make it's debut on the Flipsyde's debut LP, but was given the axe instead, and in my opinion rightfully so. I mean, It's not a bad track, but it's far more deserving of being included on some obscure basement mixtape than an album. What happened was that the chemistry didn't explode like I'm sure the band thought it would. The beat that Premier handed them sounds like a stripped down, early version of "Society Is Brainwashed" or somethin', and that's not so much of a compliment really. Surprisingly, the rhyming ain't that bad at all, actually even pretty good, and the hook is alright too, but the song just misses something and well, hey, it just didn't move me like that, and I'm sure it didn't really move them. lol, these guys must of just caught Preme after a big meal or something, cause this just doesn't sound like Preme when he's in the zone musically. "Long Time Comin'" is cool, but I can somewhat see why maybe the band decided not to include this, or why maybe even Primo might of said "ya know what, cut it off". Til' today this track only existed via recordings of Premier's radio show Live From Head Quarterz. Now it's yours.

-BIG D O




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