Air, Trees, Water, Animals

Fuck what you heard. This is true Southern hip hop. Not only does it make New York sound like a commercial for Burger King, it makes other Southerners like Outkast sound like a Broadway play of “Fat Albert” (seems Dre and Big Boi sense this too and were seen memorizing the cassette every night on their tour bus for the past six months).

Assembled by a guy who calls himself Tommy Wright III, the niggas we are talking about here are called M.A.N.S.O.N. Their songs are rough as hell and have gangster cheerleaders Lil’ Kuku and Queen Bytch singing choruses like “Fuck what you heard nigger it don’t mean shit/ Fuck what you know nigger I ain’t buying it.” Then just spitting fast and hard. It’s fierce like that. Like at the party where you watched that skinny black chick beat the hell out of that big white dude and all he could do was rip her shirt so her tits were all woggled out while she laced his ass.

This is some real Memphis rap with a lot of yelling and tongue twister shit, which makes it sound like maybe they do some of that coke they keep yelling about selling. Of course their underground shit is better but you can’t get that shit because you a Yankee-ass bitch. We got the album down here and there are about twenty one songs on this bitch (you get more for your money down south). It was about to blow up so large even Canadians could have had a piece, but now that the cheddar is in Tommy has decided not to pay anyone so the odds are they’ll never be seen or heard from again. I called up Tommy on his cell phone in the middle of the night.

VICE: What’s up Tommy Wright? Tommy Wright III? This is VICE and we’ve been talking about an interview for two weeks. You a hard man to track down.

Tommy Wright III: Shit, you know runnin’ and gunnin’ and shit. Who give you this number?

Why Memphis got to be so scary?

Cuz murder. Know what I’m sayin?

What about New York?

Where the fuck is New York? Know what I’m saying? They think it’s all these costume drama up there. You know what I’m saying?

Damn. I heard you didn’t pay those kids off the album.

Who said that?

You think Atlanta stole that Memphis sound?

Man can’t nobody steal that shit because that shit is me and I’m still up in here looking for tacos and shit. Ain’t in no hat lanta, know that. Better know that.

Man. What do you think that Japanese and Austrian people that buy your album over the internet get out of it?

They got Japanese niggas?

LEROY TITSWOLLER
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