By KELLY SULLIVAN
The Sun Trail/
THIS EAST COAST RHYMESLINGER HAS BEEN INTENSLY COUPED UP IN THE LAB OVER THE PAST 8 MONTHS!! HIS LAB. AFTER 5 YEARS OF FOLLOWING UNCLE SAM'S ORDERS RICO DA GR8 DECIDED IT WAS TIME FOR A CHANGE. AFTER SMASHIN MC'S IN NUMEROUS BATTLES ON CLUB STAGES, "DUDES WAS SPITTING FOR LIKE A MINUTE AND A HALF, I WAS EATIN DUDES UP IN 20 SECONDS, AND I DONT EVEN BATTLE RAP." RICO REALIZED A TALENT THAT LAID DORMANT. "I USED TO FREESTYLE BACK IN THE DAY WITH MY COUSIN'S, I WOULD JUST BE MESSING AROUND BUT THEY WAS SERIOUS WITH LYRICAL COMBAT!" "I ACTUALLY BEGAN WRITING BACK IN 03 WHEN GEORGE BUSH DECIDED TO SEND ME HUNTING FOR SADDAAM, I WROTE ABOUT 4 SONGS, I ACTUALLY STILL GOT THE NOTEBOOK BUT THEM SONGS IS TRASH." THREE YEARS AND 46 TRACKS LATER RICO SEEMS EXCITED ABOUT HIS FUTURE. "Im from the hood!" "Dis da city where you hustle or flow/Dress warm in da winter when you shoveling snow" " TO GO FROM RECORDING IN YA CLOSET TO YA OWN STUDIO THATS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT IN ITSELF!"THIS DAY AND AGE WHERE HIP-HOP/RAP CATCHES SO MUCH CRITICISM FROM THE LEGENDS, RICO BEGS TO DIFFER ABOUT HIP HOP BEING DEAD. "ALL THE MAJOR LABELS NOWADAYS CALL THERE SELF SIGNING STREET TALENT". "I AINT KNOCKING THE STREET/COCAINE/BATTLE RAP, I SPIT ABOUT DA DOPE GAME TOO"! "BUT THATS AN ERA THAT HAS PASSED"! "IF YOUR NICE YOUR NICE AND IF YOU AINT THEN GET OUT THE WAY!" RICO RANTS OFF A PUNCHLINE ON A SONG TITLED"GET YA HANDS UP": "Lend me ya ears bring you along/Why i spit tighter then buffy when she rocking a thong." A SONG TITLED "WE ALL GOT OUR OWN STRUGGLES IN LIFE" RICO TOUCHES ON THE SUBJECT OF LOSING HIS BEST FRIENDS BROTHER TO DA STREETS AND REACHES OUT TO HIM FOR GUIDANCE. "Im trying rock evisu jeans and cop sneakers dats new/so should i hit da corner homie wont you throw me a clue." THEN HE COMPARES DA HOOD LIFE TO HIS STINT IN THE WAR "you think da hood rough try da armpits of da earth/i aint shower for six months and made ma bed in the dirt!" ON THE CLUB SMASH "PAPI ON THE HILL" HIS WORDPLAY IS REVEALED "Da conniseur of da sewer/Da gutta got me occupying da stove/ Cook O's of dat pewter." WITH ENDLESS HOURS IN THE STUDIO PERFECTING HIS CRAFT, AN UNCANNY SWAG AND DIVERSE LYRICAL CONTENT HE SEEMS TO BE HEADED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!
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