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LIL' FLIP - I Need Mine $$
| Spin | | In hip-hop, MC monikers are either flat nicknames or ostentatious badges. Somewhat enigmatically, the affable freestyle champ and Houston native Wesley Eric Weston calls himself Lil' Flip. Inside that enigma is a riddle: Is he advertising his battle-honed script-flipping ability, or hinting at his screwed comic sensibility, an offhand irreverence we might call flipness? That he also calls himself Flipperace and takes inspiration from Leprechaun (which he named his first album after), not Scarface, suggests he's trying to fill the floppy shoes of the hip-hop jester. ...full text |
| | Blogcritics | | Double albums are a funny thing. I’ve always wondered why artists choose to do them. It sounds selfish but, wouldn’t it be more frugal to just release one side as an album and have a lot left over to put out another? I mean, I can understand an artist wanting to put out all the music that he’s put effort into within the past year, as that is their mind-state for that period of time. ...full text |
| | AllHipHop.com | | Following the break-out success of 2004's You Gotta Feel Me, it has been a rough couple of years for Lil Flip. You Gotta Feel Me was a smash, its Pac-Man sampling "Game Over" tearing down clubs and setting a ringtone sales record, and its syrupy follow-up, "Sunshine" serenading ghetto-girls across the nation. Shortly thereafter, what was never confirmed as more than hearsay led to a dedicated campaign from one of rap's fastest rising stars to end Flip's career. In addition, gaming company Namco decided to sue for unauthorized use of the Pac-Man sample....full text |
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