D-Pryde – No Rly Now (Review)

D-Pryde – No… Rly Now (2009)

The Gems:
Pryde has put the comedy aside to give us some real hip-hop
90% of the mixtape is original production
Great features (the album isn’t flooded with other artists)
This mixtape has different genres of hip-hop within it

Diamonds In The Rough:
Pryde still has a lot more records with Boi 1da
He recorded over 40 songs for this tape
Interview coming soon!

Bricks:
It told me like 3 days to understand the title of the tape
A good mixtape could of bin a great mixtape with a few more tracks cut
Wasn’t a fan of the singing features (could have had more august! Or andreena mills, etc.)

Summary:
It’s a good day for Canadian hip-hop! Pryde is taking rap seriously! No… really now, he is… Pun bitches. Moving on, this mixtape mixes hardcore hip-hop with feel good music to make a well crafted mixtape. Some hip-hop heads may pick this album up and feel they were right about Pryde and that he isn’t that hot. But in reality you got to take into consideration that he probably has more female fans than male, and in that sense the tape caters to his fan base. Although the tape did fall lower than my expectations (most albums do) I still was not in anyway upset with the final product of no… rly now. From the intro to the smash remix of Fed Up (featuring every good young rapper) Pryde rarely misses a beat. Final verdict… This is a great tape from an even better artist.

The Big Mouths:
Naturally we rated this tape on the mixtape scale rather than the album scale. This tape is better than a lot of mixtapes we got this year but it was still no So Far Gone. 4 out of 5 Big Mouths was our final decision. Need I really say more?

Top Tracks:
Just Like Me, Rly Mean It, D in D-Pryde, There You Go, Fed Up Remix

Skips:
Out Here, Story 2 tell, On that

Buy it or Download it:
It’s free… so you might as well download it!

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