J.U.S's storytelling is personal and funny as hell: a lifetime of balancing Detroit player status and more ordinary responsibilities has him worn down. "I'm on the road doin' shows I don't miss my bitch/She be hatin', say I'm old, I should fuckin' quit," he raps on "Da Best Out," sounding as weathered as Lethal Weapon's Roger Murtaugh. Squadda underlines the mood with a stringy beat that could appear in a spaghetti western, a genre full of aging gunslingers clinging to their dreams.
Too $hort said, "Detroit, it's like Oakland/It's a Black thing and I'm a Black man." If Too $hort's Detroit shoutout was the proposal, then the Street Lord'z 1999 cross-pollinated debut mixtape was the wedding day.
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