HHUCIT’s [Rating:3.0]

Bow…Bow…Bow…Bow! That’s how Wacka Flocka Flame enters the rap game with his debut studio release Flockaveli. The 24 year old rapper is commanding attention with his southern laced flow and crunked up beats. This Queens, New York born but Georgia raised rapper comes thru with his pumped up and jammed packed album full of street anthems, go hard beats and guest features.

The first track, Bustin’ At Em, introduces you to the reason why his album is the most anticipated of the year. It starts out with a loud beat with his hood lyrics flowing over top and sets the tone for the rest of the album. Hard In Da Paint, which is one of the singles thus far off the album, establishes that he is a force to be reckoned with. He introduces his Brick Squad crew with features by French Montana, YG Hootie, Joe Moses, Baby Bomb and Slim Dunkin on the tracks TTG (Trained To Go) and Bang.

No Hands, a certified club banger and the other single released from the album, is guaranteed to get people off there feet with the hypnotic beat easy to dance to. Wacka seems to get lost in the track with the featured artists Wale and Roscoe Dash with them lending there sixteen bars and overshadowing him. The next track Brick Squad is dedicated to announcing his crew with help from Young Money artist Gudda Gudda.

Fuck The Club Up features underground heavyweight Pastor Troy and is sure to have heads banging, especially with the hard hitting beat that can easily be the soundtrack to any hood fight or bar brawl. The next tracks Homies, Grove City and Karma feature more Brick Squad members and is basically the same beat and lyrical content, representing and defending their hood.

The next track Live By The Gun features RA Diggs and Uncle Murda and is more of a street anthem proclaiming that they will protect themselves and their hood even if it comes with a price. The next three tracks, For My Dawgs, G Check and Smoke, Drank are once again, more of the same with the beats and the lyrics. At this point it begins to sound like a mixtape and offers not variation from the standard beat Wacka seems to use throughout the album.

Wacka redeems himself with Snake In The Grass, which features female rapper Cartier Kitten. It was a nice dynamic to hear a female rapping alongside him. He ends the album with a cooled down beat and a middle finger to the industry with Fuck This Industry in which he shouts out all who stood by him and still represents his hood.

The album certainly lived up to the hype, although repetitive at times with the beats, Wacka Flocka Flame set out and conquered to become the newest member of the crunked up southern Hip-Hop family. The album will be pumping people up, whether on the block in the hood or in the club, for years to come.