Taadow
The StarchBishop™️
You kinda hit the nail on the head with the Luda reference. Red clearly had a huge influence on him. Em too. I fukked with Docs Da Name tho. He was starting to become a caricature of himself but he was spitting all over the album
Agree. And like...I didn’t care that it was cartoonish, I was in HS at the time so was I. Lol
But I get how somebody who might be older who was rockin’ to Rugged Red to not feel it.
The only album I didn’t really like from him was Malpractice. It already didn’t feel right because the release date was in the summer like 3 years after the last album. I was used to Red dropping fourth quarter every other year. The album had no focus at all. Red Gone Wild was dope af to me tho
You know what - I haven’t listened to Malpractice in full to this day.
I just didn’t know what I was gonna get. I heard a couple of records off it that was like
gritty hardcore - Muhfucca, Uh Huh, the cut with Face, Treach, and Jamal...but then I heard
the cut with Missy (which btw sounded just like Ghost’s cut with Missy), and I saw on the tracklist
he was killing off Soopaman Luva, and he had the midget nurse and Plush Red on the artwork,
and I just didn’t know what I was in for there.
And because of that, I slept on Red Gone Wild - which I agree was dope.
That shoulda got more push because it was bumpin’.
But I understand that was during the LA Reid/“Jay ain’t supporting the legacy acts” era at Def Jam.