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- spin.com
2010-08-25
★★★★★
Like Jay-Z, to whom this Houston MC compares himself favorably several times, Lil' Flip is an entrepreneurial prodigy...he made his name selling thousands of mixtapes (earning the respect of H-Town legend DJ Screw) and finally broke big in 2004. He foreshadowed Houston rap's current explosion by combining the slow-mo stylings of Screw with poppy accoutrements like Pac-Man sounds and silky R&B hooks...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Hip-Hop's rappers by their very braggadocious nature often proclaim themselves "Legends" or "Icons." This is often a survival mechanism to ward off rivals to the limited amount of spotlight available to share; after all would you really dare challenge a "legend" and risk humiliation? Sometimes, blustery proclamations of greatness even become self-fulfilling prophecies; witness the iconic stature of Muhammad Ali as a sports hero...
- rapreviews.com
2010-04-24
★★★★★
Thanks to the success of albums like "Undaground Legend" and "U Gotta Feel Me," the music industry is suddenly interested in re-releasing old Lil' Flip albums to cash in on his newfound popularity. One of the ones blinging on store shelves is 2000's "The Leprechaun," an album that was incorrectly perceived as a joke by many people unfamiliar with Southern hip-hop. The reason? The album's cover parodies a box of Lucky Charms cereal, with Flip as the green-suited spokesman hawking the product...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Double albums, especially in cases where they aren't necessary, are all the rage in hip-hop right now. One week ago Master P released his new album "Good Side Bad Side" as a two CD set when the total amount of material combined was only a minute longer than the accepted standard length (74 minutes) that a CD can normally hold...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Lil' Flip is back! After delaying his album for over a year, "I Need Mine" finally sees the light of day. Well, at least officially since Lil' Flip was one of the first victims of an album leak as his entire Sony release was leaked before planned and cause his initial delay ? label buy out ? Asylum signing. Of course, there had to be a little more going on than a mere album leak since Slim Thug and Lupe Fiasco recovered from a similar leak and remained amicable with their label...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
"Half the time i don't write," Lil' Flip brags on "Bounce." "I just grab a ounce/Tell players, 'Press record'/And watch these niggas bounce." Once dubbed the "freestyle king"
of Houston's syrup-sipping, slowed-down hip-hop scene, Flip counters his city's lethargic sound with an easy drawl
and charisma to spare. His third album aims for mass appeal, with guest appearances from Atlanta's Killer Mike ("We Ain't Playin"), Memphis' Three 6 Mafia ("Represent") and New York's Cam'ron ("All I Know")...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The latest from Houston's Lil' Flip
is more than abundant: The initial
limited edition spans two CDs
and thirty-seven tracks. One disc would have easily sufficed. But Flip
is as H-Town as oil rigs, and his deep-country drawl and casual
braggadocio make for Southern rap that's hard not to like on tunes such as
"Busta Clip" and the languorous "The Souf."...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Bursting onto the national arena out of the fertile Houston scene in 2002 with Undaground Legend Lil' Flip's main draw lay in his Pre-Raphaelite attention to detail—"The Way We Ball" being a inward-looking tribute to his lifestyle that left no object unexamined. In this, his third solo LP, Flip takes the idea of pushing the details of his life—both ugly and beautiful—to an extreme, presenting nearly an hour and a half of his experiences to the audience. As with the greatest of the Pre-Ra......
- www.stylusmagazine.com
2009-06-08