Chesstown King's Reviews and Thoughts

Chance the Rapper’s latest is a really good gospel-rap feeling album. There’s a good guest list including Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Future, Young Thug, and 2 Chainz. I really like the song Blessings and All Night. Very different songs sure, but very effective. The song with Justin Bieber is ok, but nothing special. Lyrically Chance is on fire. The beats aren’t bad either. This is one album that lived up to my expectations. The Verdict is a whopping 9.2/10

A$AP Ferg returns with a damn good album. It has more or a pop sound than Trap Lord had. Most of the songs are really good, and there’s some stand out guest spots like Missy Elliot and Schoolboy Q. As good as the album is I guess I expected a little more which keep it from being a 9/10, despite having solid lyricsm and production. So yeah check this album out. You won’t be disappointed, its just as good as his first album if not better. The Verdict: 8.8/10

The 2016 NBA season was magical. The playoffs didnt get off to a great start, but it got intersting quickly....lets break it down round by round. 1st Round I'll start with the west....The Golden State Warriors were 73 and 9 in the regular season, the best mark in league history. They easily dispatched the Houston Rockets in 5 games....what was so remarckable is Steph curry didnt play for most of the games. Portland upset the L.A. Clippers in 6. I undertand tho, the clips had too many key injuries to win. OKC Thunder easily beat the Mavericks.....but at this point i wasn't too sold on OKC...The Spurs swept the Grizzlies. No surprise there. In the East, the Cavaliers barely beat the Pistons in 4. I really knew the Pistons had no chance. Atlanta dispatched Boston in 6 rather moderately. I think injuries played a factor. Miami barely beat Charlotte, i think home advantage played a factor. Raptors barely beat the Pacers....it was very very close. Both of those serieses went...

2)T.I. vs. 3) Drake 2 nd Seed T.I.: Beat Killer Mike4-2, Lil Wayne 4-3 3 rd Seed Drake: Beat Rick Ross 4-2, Ludacris 4-2, Big Boi 4-2… Flow-Hmm I really like Drake and TI flows so it’s a tie. 1-1 Delivery-Another tough category. Tie again 2-2 Albums-Okay this is supposed to be a tie, but I’m going to break it down. Drake has nothing but good albums, but he only has 1 classic, TI has 2 (King and Paper Trail) so TI gets the nod here. 3-2 Storytelling-Drake gets the nod here, sure he’s singing uh rapping about the girls, but hey its effective. 3-3. Legacy-We’re looking at a tie again, but TI wins and here’s why. He’s just been so dominant for so long, while Drake has been dominant just a few years. NO THIS IS NOT an easy decision, but what u gonna do partna? T.I. wins 4-3 Final Thought: T.I. faced tough completion and dominated. He faced off with Killer Mike and Lil Wayne, the latter almost beat him. Fellow YMCMB rapper Drake also almost won. So he is the King...

Midwest Bracket 1)Kanye West vs. 2)Eminem 1 st Seed Kanye: Defeated Nelly 5-1, Defeated Lupe 3-2 2 nd Seed Eminem: Defeated Twista 5-0, Defeated Common 5-2 Flow-Eminem gets the nod here, but not as easily as you think. Kanye has really improved from College Dropout days. Listen to his incredible flows on MBDTF. Eminem has been A1 since day 1(except for Encore).  0-1 Delivery-Tie. Both rappers are really varied really gifted in their rhyming eloquence lol. 1-1 Albums-Kanye gets the nod here. His discography is arguably the best in any region…(besides the Game). Eminem has 2 or 3 classics depending on how you look at it, the other albums are good. Kanye has 2 classics no 3 if you include MBDTF. Everything else is pretty high too. 2-1 Story-Eminem wins here as well. I mean both can tell a story, but Eminem does it really effortlessly and more consistently. 2-2 Legacy- Actually we have a dilemma here. I want to say tie…but I don’t want to go to that. Lets ...

4)Ice Cube vs. 5)2pac 4 th seed Ice Cube: In Round 1 Defeated Eazy E 5-1, In R2 he beat Schoolboy Q 5-2, He beat Dr. Dre 4-2. 5 th seed 2pac: In Round 1 defeated Jay Rock 4-2, he beat Kendrick Lamar 4-3, and The Game 4-3. Flow: It’s a tie. Both rappers are legendary….1-1 Delivery: Hmm Cube and Pac attack each beat when they want to, but Pac seems just a little more versatile in that regard. 1-2 Albums: Ice Cube wins by  hair. He’s got 2 classics and some other great albums, while some of Pac’s posthumous works counts against him(while it didn’t count againt Biggie). 2-2 Story: Another tie folks. Ice Cube could really story tell, especially early Ice Cube. Pac is known for that as well…..so yeah 3-3. Legacy: Another tie breaker based on Legacy. While I love Cube’s legacy, he’s known more for being an actor than a rapper. So yeah Pac wins this category. 2pac wins 4-3              ...

1)Nas vs. 2)The Notorious B.I.G. 1 st Seed Nas: In Round 1 Nas defeated Ja Rule 5-1. In Round 3 he beat Jay-z 3-2. 2 nd Seed Biggie: In R1 he beat Fabolous 5-0. In R3 he beat Ghostface Killah 4-2. Flow: TIE. Both rappers have impeccable flow. You’re talking about 2 of the greatest MCs obviously I mean this is the final round. 1-1 Delivery: Biggie wins in this category. Nas is great but he really only raps one way. 1-2 Albums: Another tie. You knew this if you saw the Guidelines post. Sure Nas has way more albums, but Biggie’s 2 albums are just as great…. 2-3 Story: I love Biggie’s storytelling, he really was a complete rapper. Nas on the other hand had great songs like Rewind. It seems he might be the best storyteller in any region. Nas 3-3. Legacy: Ah the tie breaker. Of course in this round this isn’t easy to call…Okay so Jay beat Nas in this category, and Jay copied Biggie, but regardless…I give this one to Nas. Sure he has way more material…but the dude h...