In early 2010 Curren$y joined the Def Jam family via Damon Dash's DD172 imprint. The relationship continued that October with the download-only Jet Files.
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He released a series of underground mixtapes before hooking up with the digital-only Amalgam Digital for the early 2009 release This Ain’t No Mixtape. The brand was originally planned as a line of apparel, but evolved into a music label as the rapper's relationship with Young Money soured.Ĭurren$y left the label at the end of 2007 with Fly Society in tow.
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Not one to sit idle, Curren$y started Fly Society with professional skateboarder Terry Kennedy in 2007.
In 2006, Curren$y's "Where da Cash At" single was released - both on its own and as part of Wayne's Dedication 2 mixtape - but a promised album never materialized. He appeared on Wayne's Tha Carter II album that same year.
Thanks to his smart lyrics, the Louisiana’s Curren$y landed a label deal in 2003, but it took three labels and seven years of underground releases before the rapper made his official debut.īorn Shante Anthony Franklin and raised in New Orleans, Curren$y was originally signed to Master P's No Limit label, but in 2005 he made the move to Lil Wayne and Birdman's Cash Money imprint, Young Money. Pilot Talk hears Curren$y keeping it simple–openly championing the simplistic things that he loves (weed, video games, ’64 Impalas etc.) But through complex musings, metaphors and juxtapositions, may have created one of the more complex rap releases of late.On Friday, September 22, Tastemaker Live & Sean Healy Present the Curren$y Pilot Talk Trilogy Tour at the WOW Hall with special guests to be announced. Ire and indulgence aside, Curren$y proves himself to be a remarkably adept wordsmith, earning his oft referenced nickname “Spitta.” “Spitta”‘s lyrical chops shine through best on Pilot Talk‘s roaring opener “Example” where he matter-factly muses “ running through my shoes, for the day I could kick ’em off, relax, I said I’d quit smoking these beats but I relapsed.” Meanwhile “Address” hears Curren$y jovially celebrating the contrast from poor to posh that rappers tend to enjoy, exclaiming that he’s “ making Hot-Wheels outta hooptys.” On the optimistic and trumpet-powered “The Day,” in a Virginia Woolf-esque stream-of-consciousness rant, Curren$y blatantly expresses his irritation at the major label brass for not allowing him to smoke pot in the label office, explaining that he has a studio at home, essentially arguing that there is no reason for him to be there: a metaphor that probably defines the rapper’s disdain for major label hegemony (before Pilot Talk, Curren$y had two record deals sink) and his fondness for doing things his own way. In fact, Curren$y’s ability to subvert the rules of rap music using his own ideologies is the true charm of Pilot Talk.
Pilot Talk hears Curren$y’s delivery a little awkward and his rhymes are often long-winded but despite his deviation from the prototypical alpha-male rapper, bold declarations like “ King Kong aint got shit on me!”(from “King Kong”), Curren$y lays out the thesis for Pilot Talk, stating that despite the copious amounts of weed smoked and hours of video games played, the Big Easy-born rapper can still traverse the rap music universe with the best of them. As his name would suggest, he indulges in the exchange of goods however, whether intentional or not, his moniker goes beyond the acquisition of capital.
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Representing the full spectrum of this dynamic is New Orleans MC, Curren$y. Rappers, on the other hand, have always turned the other cheek to restrictive practicality, for better or worse, in favor of unbending ego and bravado. With layoffs, pay-cuts, education cuts and a overall gutting of the world’s livelihood, it’s only natural that the general population of Earth has been left to feel less than sufficient to compete in society. Call it a delusional theory, but I really think that rap music’s hyperbolic tales of excess have lent some pragmatic relief to its consumers amidst current economic hardships.
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