Artist: West End Goldie
Album: Choppers and Attorneys
Articulation: Courtney Cosby
“Choppers and Attorneys” by West End Goldie immediately grabbed my attention from the very first song called, “Something Real” because the beat had an old school sample that gave it an old school vibe. Everyone loves a good sample executed properly. The production is solid throughout the entire fourteen track album and the lyrical content consists of mostly trap music and game spitting, West End Goldie has a smooth delivery and cleverly uses metaphors with ease. His catchy cadences and clever wordplay serve him well with the way he rides the beat. He doesn’t particularly sound like any other rapper and his pronunciation is very clear, which is refreshing, in this era of carbon copies and mumble rap.
West End Goldie represents the city of Louisville all throughout the project by naming certain establishments and clothing lines that are affiliated with Louisville. For example, in the standout song, “1 of 1” Goldie said, “I don’t do Margiela with the spikes, I rock the DohLyfe shit with Nikes,” DohLyfe is a clothing line that was started by a black fashion designer from Louisville. Supporting one another from the same city is very important to the culture and doesn’t always come easy, so it feels good to see West End do it with ease. Although he’s from the West End, he shows love to the whole city and is signed to Shark Livin Entertainment. Several of his label mates are featured on songs along with a few artists from the city. Another of my favorite songs is called, “Benny Hana” featuring Big Q and PJ Gifted, whom I’m already a fan of. The beat and chorus to that song makes u wanna bounce and turn up. It could most definitely be a club banger.
I was impressed with “Choppers and Attorneys” and could ride to it without skipping a song. The project is well put together and ended with a song called, “Cypher” which is basically just that, a cypher with four of his label mates rapping on it. All of the label mates, including a female rapper named Skrich Baby, killed their verses over a beat with a West Coat vibe to it. Overall this album is in fact... Dope.
Dope Tho Rating: 7
Key Dope:
1 of 1
Benny Hana