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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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Freeway: "Trap Door (Freestyle)"


Wow! Explicitly recorded as a commercial for his upcoming album, The Stimulus Package, Freeway's two-minute take on "The Trap Door," a two-year-old track from his producer Jake One, is better than most full-fledged new rap songs you'll hear all year.

The Philadelphian has been very busy lately. As he likes to say, he gets to work early! (And he pronounces this in a way that sounds like it might hurt his throat. Like he gargled extra hard with the Listerine.) As was the case with folks like Bun B, who's back at it lately, and, so famously Lil Wayne, it seems like there's a new Freeway recording waiting every morning when you click on the internet. And so many of them are fresh like that Listerine.

But back to the freestyle, which is probably the best explicitly-recorded-as-a-commercial rap since Wu-Tang shilled for their clothing company with "Wu Wear The Garment Renaissance" back in 1999. The original "Trap Door" appeared on Jake's White Van Music album, featuring rhymes from MF Doom, and is an original, meaning sample-free, production. Surprising, since it sounds like something Link Wray might have come up with in 1962. (Linking to Link Wray just made my day, by the way. It doesn't take much.)

4 Comments / Post A Comment

Flashman
Flashman (#418)

WO.RD. I needed that right now more than you can ever believe.

arekid
arekid (#3,192)

DOOM spit over this on WVM. Definitely runs circles around this.

Either way, can't wait for Stim Pack.

arekid
arekid (#3,192)

And "Glow" with Elzhi and Royce is the greatest song of all time.

arekid
arekid (#3,192)

Create an illy scene, here's what I really mean
I make the whole city glow like the video for Billy Jean
Possess it, I was destined to be fluorescent
You less slick-guess it's just the finesse that you blessed wit
Got correct lines to do it, infect minds
The kind that reject fine electronic music
When I, blaze the art, split ya smart brain waves apart, wit grace cuz I'm laser sharp
To phase ya, I know you saw the flow slaughter then you switched to flame, can melt the same as throwin water on a witch
I'm a, livewire for hire, fire in entire spurts
To jump up and get blew out like fireworks
I clearly blow and left you find this mysterio,
Theory show, material glowin' inside your stereo
I'm nasty, haters consider me to be flashy, cash me out of mouth, I'm bout, countin the last G

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