Sábado 19 Fev 2011, 8h:01

This is probably not news to most of you but for the rest I urge you to allow a certain rapper to take you on a flight that is high in multiple senses. This pilot of course is Curren$y a.k.a. Hot Spitta, a New Orleans smooth operator who along with Ski Beatz as the main man among many producers, puffs a suave sound brimming with smoke laced jazz into the room.

While some of the tracks themselves fizzle out, the theme of laid back langour gives the album its due cool. That along with conspicuous and nicely consistent references to marijuana. Spitta happily joins the crowd when he ‘s “wearing a bow tie till the day I die”(Michael Knight), playing along with the hype game that we all know and what everybody grows. Where Spitta outstands himself is when he lets rap and wordplay go at it in his head. He speaks his mind without really having to pronounce things when he gets so “high as to autograph the sky”(Famous) or when he makes us watch as he’s “scribbling fire on a streetcar named desire”(Famous) just so we too can glimpse that image of advertisement etched into ability.

Curren$y, as I’ve admired him with that smoky drawl and reserved allure makes a seasoned statement on top of already hot sauced beats.

He makes himself known on the tracks by behaving like a merchant who can sling finesse in a dimebag. There’s space on the couch for everyone according to Curren$y. “Fashionably Late” codifies this relaxed celebrity. A celebrity that fans away the fanfare to make room for the high.

Stripped to its undies, this album blows the smoke around to make you a believer, an evanglical. Not just in Curren$y himself, but also in his cult of chronic leisurePilot Talk II