Mixtape Review: Road to Til the Casket Drops
Clipse: Road to Till The Casket Drops
By: Rian Mills
As the New Year approaches and we are knee deep in the holiday spirit(s), the Clipse stay on their grind. Not only is their new clothing line, Play Cloths, in stores, they team up with Complex Magazine to drop one helluva mixtape in anticipation of an early 2009 album release; Road to Till The Casket Drops features the Clipse at their finest. Cocaine rap can definitely get tired, but this duo just does it so well, you can’t help but love it. As they flow effortlessly over tracks like ”Big Dreams”, ”Addiction”, and ”Numb It Down” you’ll find yourself pressing rewind trying to catch their double entendres and ridulous wordplay. Ab-Liva does his thing as he makes a couple of appearances on ”Pop Champagne” and ”S.L.U” with all three M.C.’s painting a vivid picture of their over-the-top lifestyle. ”The Haters Wish” and ”Feds Taking Pictures” are standout tracks, and there’s even a song for the ladies (in some respects) with ”So Fly (Now We’ve Had Her). This mixtape is nothing short of a gem, one that I’ll be bumping until their album drops, and as Pusha says himself, ”All we give you is classics…”. Peace.