★★★★★
In 2010, the New Orleans rapper Curren$y scored the two biggest hits of his career. The rapper, born Shante Franklin, had once been a gangster rapper, one of the semi-anonymous weed carriers that populated Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment imprint. Like so many of his fellows, Curren$y, who frequently refers to himself as Spitta, wasn't promoted properly while on YME, but he also was an ill fit for the label's gangster-lite subject matter at the time...
- pitchfork.com
2014-03-14
★★★★★
Wasup? It has been an incredibly dry start to the year on the music front in hip-hop but I finally found something to let you guys in on. First on the project list is Curren$y, also known as Spitta Andretti, who has blessed us with what I hope is the first of many mixtapes or maybe even a prelude to a retail album that will drop this year...
- www.musicreview.co.za
2014-02-20
★★★★★
Curren$y hardly fails to impress his fans, and his newest mix tape, New Jet City, is no exclusion. The tape is a compilation of well-produced tracks stressing the fact that he has made it as an artist, and depicting the struggles that accompany the fame. The mix-tape starts off with the title track, a powerful introductory sample, trumpets and an upbeat instrumental background help lift the mood instantly...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-04-08
★★★★★
Curren$y is in a very odd place in hip-hop, one that I'm not sure has ever existed before. Since 2008 the Young Money castaway has been entrepreneurial in ways few other rappers can claim. What began as artistic catharsis after a duo of limited roles as Lil' Wayne's undersold wingman and No Limit solider, his string of eight mixtapes in eight months revealed Curren$y to be equally inspired by wildly different music than the gangster rap tunes (most of the world would remember him for "Where da...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-02-27
★★★★★
Here was Curren$y, with about as much conviction as he's ever managed, on 2011's "Car Talk": "Critics say that he flow only 'bout weed/ They don't know about me." The NOLA native had reason to be defensive, as he's long been written off by some as a weed-rapper and not much more...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
When Dr. Dre planted Chronic seeds into ears of Hip-Hop culture, he was only trying to depict a day in the life of Los Angeles, California. Fast-forward two decades later, "Stoner rap" has grown almost into a genre all to itself, thanks to Hip-Hop cannabis connoisseurs like Wiz Khalifa and Smoke DZA...
- allhiphop.com
2012-11-07
★★★★★
Shante Scott Franklin b/k/a Curren$y has come a long way since starting out as a member of Master P's 504 Boyz group, a rather random collection of rappers from P's hometown area code. The group was thrown together at a point when No Limit Records was losing its luster and going through the first of several repacking and restructuring efforts...
- rapreviews.com
2012-07-19
★★★★★
's last major-label studio record, 2011's Weekend at Burnie's, largely epitomised his style: lazy, laid-back, cool as you like. But although it was just as much the soundtrack of choice for long nights of smoking, it was also stripped-down and frequently darker than this latest set, The Stoned Immaculate. This eighth studio album is hardly poptastically jubilant, but struggles and disappointments are a thing of the past...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
The Stoned Immaculate is a seminar in the art of the crossover. It's more than a work in progress, but less than a masterwork; call it a workshop. Spitta has already established his reputation as a singularly reliable curator of tracks in the hip-hop underground, "dropping album after album like them bitches slippery," never yet releasing a dud. But like Big K.R.I.T...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2012-06-18