L-Tido : City Of Gold
L-Tido: City Of Gold - Mixtape
A mixtape is meant to be used as a promotional tool for artists to create some sort of hype...
It‘s been said women kiss a lot of frogs before they find their prince. Likewise I listen to a lot of sub-par music and once every once in a while something amazing comes along. A mixtape is meant to be used as a promotional tool for artists to create some sort of hype generally before an album release or just to get their names out there and possibly get the attention of an A&R.
It no longer amazes me as to how many artists get this very wrong, with their recycled beats and half hearted attempts and wonder why they never get shown any love.
Locally City of Gold is the new bench mark for mixtapes and has hit the nail right on the head. As a promotional tool the mixtape is an absolute jewel. It hits all the right notes and is filled with hit after hit, ‘Ain’t nothing but hot beats and impeccable rhymes/so when you mix those together it’s exceptional shine’.
The mixtape as a whole is remarkably packaged from having the hottest produces to having one of the dopest cover, that cover is too official period even the haters gotta like. This mixtape can actually be mistaken for an album at times and rightfully so. The mixtape features 18 tracks and the whole Glitz Gang makes an appearance. Da Les shows some love on two tracks one of them being Amaretto.
On the international scene when rappers need a male vocalist the very same names keep poping up i.e Usher, Trey Songz etc. Locally Teepee seems to be the only guy dominating this category with a few exceptions. Tido and Teepee actually have some good chemistry going on and to be honest I’d like to hear a re-collaboration on something a lil more up beat. The next best thing on radio should be the second track. I’ve officially adopted that as my I’m from J-Sec anthem P.S Tido please credit the vocalist you feature on that track. We’d like to know who’s behind that alluring voice.
The mixtape’s well balanced and has the right mix between commercial club bangers and street credible tracks. On the downside I personally don’t feel track 10 the diss track should’ve made it on the album. It’s unnecessary and messes with the whole album flow personally I feel it’s redundant. While on the topic I also find it contradicting that one would have a diss track denouncing the I.V League as credible producers and on the same album feature an I.V League produced track. Maybe someone needs to pull a Lupe Fiasco and dumb it down for me cause I don’t get it.
However this is just a minor glitch and doesn’t takeaway from the album. In no particular order tracks to listen out for include track 3 which has a slight Young Jeezy influence. Lyrically and on production track 7 is too official. Mark my words once track two gets airplay it’s gonna burn the charts and possibly become his next hit. Track fourteen is still too crazy. In brief L-tido is an ill artist, 'and treats these beats like P.Y.T’s’ , this mixtape got me anticipating an album release.
