Chino XL - RICANstruction

dropped today, anyone get this yet? I'll be picking it up later

I haven't got it yet, but i got it on hold so i'll be copping it later.

I'll be getting it, seeing as I was hoping to order it a few months ago.

Just ordered mine from Aamazon. Patiently waiting.......

I'm in the middle of disc one right now(i had no idea it was a double disc album), and it's real nice. The first thing that's struck me so far is that it's been more introspective than I Told You So and Here to Save You All. I haven't heard Poison Pen or the album with Playalitical so i can't compare those.

Intrspecttive? It may be on the lines of Poison Pen. You should cop that album. This might knock Snowgoons from that top slot

this album is insane. I've only spun disc 1 because it is taking so long to take it all in. I've hit the rewing button on like every track so far and have listened to each song about twice. This is just hip hop at its core. Chino's lyrics are devastating. Battle raps and metaphors and punchlines of course, but there are also a lot of personal tracks. His wordplay and the speed which he raps is impressive. Not to mention the production lineup which provides hard beats that are dope but dont drone out Chino. Producers include Apollo Brown, Stu Bangas, Sid Roams, DJ Khalil, DJ Romes, Focus, House Shoes, Toba Beats, DJ Swift, Oh No, Level 13, Exile, Nick Wiz, Wyldfyre, Southpaw...

i guess my only gripe with disc one is he doesn't have a lot of variation in his flow, but the lyrics are insane, going to take a LONG time to digest all of this. The production is dope too

this is easily better than the Snowgoons, Trotter

Had never heard that Pun verse before. Shits dope. Chino does get a bit exhausting though, especially on a double album...

Shit sounds like a fucking winner from y'all's description. Coppin this one asap.

Yeah I'm hearing really good things about this, probably gonna blind buy, his features on recent albums like Ohnomite and Nineteen Ninety Now were dope so I know he can still spit

Laced With Slang wrote:

this album is insane. I've only spun disc 1 because it is taking so long to take it all in. I've hit the rewing button on like every track so far and have listened to each song about twice. This is just hip hop at its core. Chino's lyrics are devastating. Battle raps and metaphors and punchlines of course, but there are also a lot of personal tracks. His wordplay and the speed which he raps is impressive. Not to mention the production lineup which provides hard beats that are dope but dont drone out Chino. Producers include Apollo Brown, Stu Bangas, Sid Roams, DJ Khalil, DJ Romes, Focus, House Shoes, Toba Beats, DJ Swift, Oh No, Level 13, Exile, Nick Wiz, Wyldfyre, Southpaw...

i guess my only gripe with disc one is he doesn't have a lot of variation in his flow, but the lyrics are insane, going to take a LONG time to digest all of this. The production is dope too

this is easily better than the Snowgoons, Trotter

Nick Wiz?! I definitely gotta check this out. Chino has always impressed me from day one.

I may peep this. I have slept on Chino for too long. I owned his 1st album but did not like it back at the time. But I was also in a different mind frame those days. Pac anybody?

I'm just worried about how repetitive his subject matter or lack of it will be. I do not want to here a double cd of battle rhymes only.

Tic706 your taste of hip hop is too hypocritical. Just admit you just fuckin' with shallow gangster rapper preferably from TX.

Mines just came in the mail. *sniffing* Ah, the smell of new music. It's on now

I've been hearing a lot of good things about this one, and I'm usually a sucker for double albums too. I may check this one out.

its not all battle raps. Probably a little more than half the album is "battle raps" but he diversifies on this album