Freeway -- "Free At Last"

haha "this box set is soooooo long, took me days to listen to it"

They really could have kept it down to twelve discs.

the track with jay-z on this sounds about 8 years old! reminds me of hard knock life-era rocafella (are people are probably going to get all backinthedays misty-eyed for that era now?). this falters a bit in the middle or 3/4 of the way through - nothing bad or embarassing, just not as powerful as the first 4-5 songs, but still good. i think i like this more than graduation. this is the album freeway should have had for his debut.

i've been fgeeling this even more than philadelphia freeway. man, the raps is just so HARD on everything. there isn't any time where free doesn't rap his fuckin ass on any track. man free just gives me those perfect moment tingles on this like nobody else does but nas and face and mega and 50.

FREEWAY GOT CONNECTS WITH THE BOSSES
I GET A CALL FROM THE DEALER
YOU CONNECT WITH THE AUCTION
IM STILL PREPARED FOR YOUR SQUADRON
I TEAR UP MY TARGET VEST COVER MY ORGANS
CALICO WITH THE CARTRIDGE
over crazy fuckin squealing u don't know beat "NO NO NO NO NO"
and then a face verse?

he even comes hard on that glossy rick ross track

i listen to that 9, 10 combo over and over again

free at last is FIERCE, second verse flow is just FIERCE. that's what i love about free. wish i could explain what i love so much about just everything in the way he raps. listen to that second verse, the one that starts, GATS HOLLOW THEM LOJACK EM AND FOLLOW THEM

like listening to some dudes, listening to other rappers that i love. some dude like face or fat pat with careless slowly spreading thick blades of voice on the beat. or nas with immaculate construction and raps that you can imagine written down and read and re-read, pencil scratches and shit crossed out in the flow. lots of people borrow that shit and they borrowed shit from other people but nobody could be FIERCE like free. even shit like pharaoh doubletime angry oldschool houston shit--not that free is really fast or anything but that's as close as comes to my head right now, some midwest or houston fierce fast shit-- has a little gloss to it just because you can feel a fanciness, a showiness. nobody could rap like free.

I do think I like it a little better than the UGK

I changed my mind on that ... but this is still really good

for the last day i've been tryin to figure out what this means: "i killed my own profession droppin pelicans off"

as in he just straight killed the game droppin birds off? or he damaged the cocaine distribution industry by moving so much weight??? what

yeah this is great

http://pics.drugstore.com/prodimg/78848/200.jpg

I WAS LIVIN' MY LIFE!

Still fabulous.

kind of wincing at my 'UGK are untouchable' zzz upthread but i still don't disagree with myself

sololipsms

i don't disagree with yourself either

THINGS JUST AIN'T THE SAME FOR GANGSTAS

this album holds up pretty damn well.

this is so underrated...dope from beginning to end. only track i skip is the one with jay

ha im more tired of jay than i am busta

I need to get back to this album

trying to decide whether to buy this on vinyl. i cant really imagine wanting to hear much of this 'out' except maybe the 50 cent track??

roc-a-fella billionaires really deserved to be a club hit and never was, so buy it and at least spin that.

nah none of it works "out"

it really works as "damn, I can't believe how awesome Freeway is and how little Def Jam cared about his second album"

roc-a-fella billionaires is actually a great party song-- no one knows the words but it's still awesome to yell out HEY, BIG SPENDER

yeah the sample is cool but that's it

man, the raps is just so HARD on everything