“Careless World” found Tyga wanting to be a “King,” and even having sample clearance issues with Martin Luther King Jr.’s estate as a result, but the only “King” to be found on “Hijack” with 2 Chainz is “King Koopa.” There’s nothing lofty or noble about “Hotel California,” an album deliberately striving to achieve the lowest common denominator as quickly as possible. Tyga make think it’s cute to say “I’m swervin, I’m drivin/ain’t got time to be tired/I’m superturnt I’m on a bad trip” but for the love of God, pull his ass over before he commits vehicular manslaughter.
Being braggadocious or flashy aren’t in themselves sins – they can even at times be virtues if lyrically memorable, but Wiz’s “pull up in some shit you’ve never ever seen” doesn’t qualify. Even though the Siri style voice adds a humorous element to “Molly” and the Dez Dynamic beat thumps, it’s hard to give a ringing endorsement to the raps of Tyga or guest star Wiz Khalifa. On his last project Tyga at least had aspirations of setting a standard, but on his new project he seems content to follow the trends of dangerous partying, conspicuous consumption and self-medication heard in a majority of mainstream hip-hop these days. While the bloated excess of “Careless World” is done away with, coming in under an hour instead of well over that length, it doesn’t seem any extra effort went into raising the quality of lyricism in that hour.
“Hotel California” is at its best when it avoids paying tribute to other Cali artists, remake or otherwise, though “best” is a limited term. DJ Mustard’s instrumental certainly captures the menacing tension of that feud, but doesn’t recreate the funky fun of the first one or hilarious if mean-spirited Shakur rebuttal of the second song. Of course what gets lost in the mix to all but the rap historians among us is that Pac’s song was actually a parody of Junior M.A.F.I.A.’s hit single “Get Money,” as part of the escalating rivalry between Pac and Biggie and their respective coasts. The only time Pac’s voice can be heard is mixed with Tyga’s saying the word “Westside” in the first verse, and Tyga still pays tribute to the rap legend by saying the 2Pac’s signature line in the chorus of his song. The original plan was for the song to be a duet of sorts between ‘Pac and Tyga, and leaked versions of the song reflect that in the third verse, but sample clearance issues turned out to be cost-prohibitive. Now thankfully “Hit’em Up” with Jadakiss is not a remake of the Tupac Shakur classic, but that’s not for lack of trying. “Dope” fails on almost all accounts other than the famous “I CAN FEEL IT.” Producer FKi only cares about the bassline, stripping the piano from the verses, adding some awful farting synthesizer sounds, and the song barely even acknowledges its a remake other than a throwaway line from Tyga that “it’s 187 how I’m killing these hoes.” Now Tyga is not the first to revisit this now 20+ year old song, but the most notable example is Big Pun, and his duet with Fat Joe took great pains to recapture the spirit of the original – the same sound effects, the same piano stabs, structuring the chorus the same way, and the camraderie between the two artists being equivalent to that found between Dre and Snoop.
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Dre’s “Deep Cover” is a landmark hip-hop single, far more important than the movie of the same name it was recorded for, given that it singlehandedly launched the career of a young Calvin Broadus Jr. There’s very little in hip-hop music that is truly sacrosanct, given that one of the tenants of its rise to popularity was rapping over breakbeats and samples of the previous generation, but even in an anything goes genre “Dope” treads on sacred ground. This raised the profile of his 2013 follow-up album “Hotel California” to highly anticipated status, and the first single “Dope” certainly got people talking.
On the whole though “Careless World” established Tyga as a bonafide rap star, and his close association with the Young Money imprint has certainly been beneficial for both him and founder Lil Wayne. An infectious DJ Mustard instrumental was arguably more important to the song’s success than Tyga’s vocal performance, particularly given “Rack City” peaked at #7 on the Billboard Top 100 and none of the album’s other singles charted higher than #33. Tyga has been floating around the hip-hop scene since at least 2008, but he blew up in a major way with 2012’s “ Careless World” album, particularly the crossover success of his “Rack City” single. Niggaz want a verse, can’t even get an ad-lib” Nigga I ain’t dancin but my hand on my hipįull clip, movie shit, Bruce Wayne, Alfred On the yacht eat shrimp, see my name on a blimp