"Okay"
I'll jump in....
"Okay"
Drugs Inc is one of my favourite TV series ever, especially series 2 and beyond, where every episode focuses on a different location, each area boasting the "largest open area drug market' ever, and every chef has their own, unique, "special sauce" that makes their crack better than any other, like spilling some Grey Goose into the pan with the basic baking soda secret ingredient, cocaine, & water mix is going to make a difference, but somehow "Minnesota" as a location has never featured... this album confused me, like the guy is from the Bay? or LA? the real Minnesota is"up", not ""down" in relation to California, but a wikipedia search reveals there is more than one "Minnesota', and maybe he is referring to to one that has Pop. 200 near Mt.Shasta, CA? Anyway, I can picture the opening tune as the soundtrack to a scene where the ( always chubby } chef is pouring their "special" additive into a receptacle upon a hot plate, whilst singing:
We got the baking soda
down in Minnesota
catchy hook
weird choice of sample, I thought it was Harry Flynt or some other hillbilly shit, but I cheated and consulted discogs, and they actually paid a fiddler, the panning is a headfuck for sure, and the drum pattern can best be described as 'off-kilter", yet this Nickatina dude can flow, pulls the disparate elements into a coherent whole..
love the "rhymes by the pound". weights / scales metaphors going on,..
rhymes galore
rhymes you can buy at the candy store
unfortunately, I keep replaying the first tune ,so not qualified to comment on the rest of the album, other than some fucking amazing drum machine programming on display
not so keen on the xmas rum-a-pum tune, but other than that, thumbs up
(disclaimer: extremely inebriated late nigth/early morning post )