Anna Baynham
Blue & White Flash / Staff Writer
Mississippi’s own Big K.R.I.T is back at it again with his new hot mixtape entitled 4EvaNADay.
This was one of the first mixtapes I have ever listened to with not one feature on it. Some may look at it in a negative way, but I think in this case it is appropriate.
Big K.R.I.T. is lyrically set apart from a lot of up and coming top hip-hop artists. He reminds me of a modern day Common but with his own unique twist. Rapping about real life things, K.R.I.T opens up with the song, “Boobie Miles”, from that moment on I never stopped bobbing my head.
Richard Purry, a therapeutic recreation major, from Brandon, Miss. said, “I have been listening to K.R.I.T since he released Return of 4Eva. The mixtape was nothing spectacular, just classic K.R.I.T. My favorite songs are ‘Insomnia’ and ‘Yesterday’.”
When he raps about “real life things” I do mean: love, life, hardships of life, friendships, relationships, the whole nine. A lot of times I catch myself rewinding the previous verse to listen to his great choice of words.
I have listened to the mixtape numerous times and I can’t quite pick out exactly one song that I love more than the rest. So far my top favorite songs are “The Alarm”, “Red Eye”, and “4EvaNADay Theme”.
“The Alarm”, speaks to me because it is a wake up call. This is a song speaking about real life situations and beliefs of the human race. K.R.I.T chants wake up in the song, letting his fans know that we all need to wake up from whatever fairytale we are living in and see that the world is not just black and white. Saying, “In a world of fantasies can you be a realist?”
Xavier Hudson, senior computer science major from Meridian, Miss., said, “That’s my hometown hero. I don’t like him because of that. Production and lyricism wise is 100 percent greatness. My favorite song is “Me and My Old School”, and the “Cover”, because those are real places on the side of town that he lives on.”
This mixtape will not upset. No songs will be skipped, and soon you will be willingly suctioned in to a world of K.R.I.T and his ingenius beats as well as lyrics. He says several times throughout the mixtape that he makes his own beats to his songs.
You can’t knock the man, he is very talented. While this is the first mixtape I have ever listened to by K.R.I.T., I think this is what will cause me to listen to more of K.R.I.T. and slowly but surely become a huge fan.
His other fans may think of this mixtape to be typical K.R.I.T. but at the end of the day, everyone who heard the mixtape can see that K.R.I.T is on his grind to becoming one of the hottest rappers of our time.
