When a gun does your hook, what does that say about you? Motuphi has a song coming out called "Illegal 1s" about the folly of the gun-grabbers and their agenda to disarm the American taxpayers while leaving the thugs armed and dangerous. It comes across as a gloat from the thug perspective, which can be accurately depicted by Motuphi, since he used to be a real thug (unlike so many fake, poser, famous "gangsta" rappers, who never worked the streets like Motuphi did). In Illegal 1s you hear a handgun with a silencer delivering the hooks with the singers as they imitate shooting, yelling "Ca-ca-ca-cow!" as if they're shooting off gats. This song may come across as a compromise to those who don't listen to the lyrical content of the verses (the rap parts).
It would seem as though the new releases that Motuphi is working on could have the opposite effect of what he intended as kids sing along to what sounds like glorification of thug ideals in Illegal 1s. Or how about how kids are doing the zombie parts in the hooks for Zombie Hunter: The content may be ignored as the kids imitate the zombies screaming and screeching through-out the hooks...Picture cars full of dumbed down kids riding along screeching and screaming and moaning like zombies to a cartoonish Bass thumping so hard that it shakes the road as they cruise by...Yeah, that's what could happen when this CD comes out this summer.
Some of the songs being released on the mixtape CD have internet pre-releases available out there already. Those internet releases are different from the mixes being mastered for the CD. The CD mixes are being designed more for traditional listening means, like car and home stereos. Where the Motuphi crew is genius in their marketing is that, if you buy the CD, you not only get the mixes that are slightly different from the internet releases, but you also get the various versions of the songs that have alternative beats and tracks to them. For example, Illegal 1s has 3 different drum beats available to it, and the CD is rumored to include at least 2 versions of the song incorporating at least 2 of those different beats. The CD will also include songs that won't be available on the internet, at all. So, to get the full scope of what Motuphi has been up to with his crew of mad music scientists, you're going to have to buy the mixtape CD, due out this summer.
Motuphi has songs coming out on the CD and so do the BUDeZianZ, who're a Detroit troupe of underground music artists fronted by Motuphi aka Vincent-Nick Ciofani (originally from Detroit, now located in Grayling, 3 hours north). No release date has been set yet and we have no idea where the CD will be available when it finally does come out. With Motuphi being such a controversial rapper and music artist, chances are you won't be finding it on the shelves of Target, Wal-Mart or K-mart. After all, some of Motuphi's content was too "out there" for Amazon to sell, as if there's some sort of double standard in place that adheres Motuphi's music to higher standards than what Amazon will sell instead. So we don't know if the CD will be available at head shops, via online marketing, or what. We do know that we want one of those CDs when it comes out. Curiosity has the best of us. We want to hear what's not going to be available as mp3s online. To do that, we'll have to buy the CD, just like everyone else waiting to hear what's on it.
This will be the first CD in more than 17 years that Motuphi is released on, officially. He's done some stuff with some people that he's not credited for. But this CD is more about bringing the legend that is Motuphi to the foreground by showcasing his talent in collaboration with those who still work with him on the side on the DL. He's done so much that's still unreleased that a mixtape can be made and still not include all of what's been done. The CD will only include the strongest releases and more than one version of the most popular cuts.
Watch for this CD to come out and get yourself one!
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