Back From the Dead?
What the hell happened to Andre Nickatina? The man formerly known as "Yo' Frisco Potna Dre Dog" seems to have fallen completely off the map since his last album. This is perhaps because, in my humble opinion, his newest releases were becoming exponentially worse than the original Nickatina tracks we all used to (and still do) nod our heads to.
I remember discussing this with Widukind a long time ago, and he hypothesized that the deterioration in the quality of Nicky-T's music and lyrics (since when is it okay to come out with songs titled "Box of Lucky Charms", "Cottoncandyland", and "Rap Candy Bars?") had everything to do with his cocaine use. This conversation occurred sometime before March of '07 because I distinctly remember agreeing with him mainly due to the name of what back then was going to be Nickatina's next release: Cokewhite.
Since that conversation, apparently Nickatina scrapped "Cokewhite" and began a new project entitled "A Tale of 2 Andres", the other Andre being Mac Dre. This only came to my attention last week, when a friend and fellow Dre Dog enthusiast alerted me that Nickatina was doing a show in Santa Cruz and his new album was dropping that very night. After a bit of research, I found that the esteemed Mr. Pilly Wonk of Nation of Thizzlam made a warning post in 2006 about a mixtape that went by the same name, saying it claimed to have unreleased tracks but in reality was just the same old shit.
After much internal deliberation, I've decided that I think this CD is actually a collection of a bunch of new stuff, even despite how much Nickatina has fucked around the past few years. I went on http://www.andrenickatina.com , which actually wasn't very helpful, but it directed me to Nickatina's MySpace.
The fella has a pair of tracks on his MySpace that I haven't heard before, and I thought they were both pretty sick. My question: are these two tracks a glimpse of Nickatina's return to prominence? Or are they two anomalies in the ever expanding ocean of shittiness that my former hero Dre Dog has sunken into, much like the Titanic? I'm going to do my utmost to find out if that CD is legit and give my Frisco Potna Dre Dog a second chance.
In the meantime, tell me what y'all think about the two tracks in his MySpace.
http://www.myspace.com/certifiedandrenickatina
1 comment:
Nasty-thanks for giving the blog some mouth to mouth (yes homo). About a month ago I was having similar thoughts, so I made a profile on The Siccness forums to see if there was any Nicky T news, and I just used my profile for the first time (mikel db research 2 teh max0rz!). There was a thread solely devoted to this album, and it sounds like its some original shit and some recycled stuff. I guess it would be cool to hear some Mac Dre verses, but I'm not buying. I personally think that song "Color of the Benz" is terrible; what's with the 20 second verses and super dumb chorus? The beat hardly goes, either. On The Siccness forums a few people quoted the line "I dress sharp like the Nation of Islam, so I shop like someone who personally knows god" as proof of Nickatina's ability to still spit it. I thought that was funny, because when I first heard that line I thought it was fucking stupid.
Bootystar Glawk Talk came out a while ago...can we get a review, homelessnigg?
ps. The idea of coke fucking Nickatina up is not mine at all, but it's probably true. I'm going to go listen to "Killer Whale" and cry.
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