Cookin Soul — Whateva Vol. 2 [mixtape]

That's beautiful. Milwaukee, Ja Rule presents himself on the Bucks pitch for the NBA halftime performance, but the crowd isn't down with him, clearly, and his DJ has the computer crashed:

"Are we reeaaaaddyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

I guess not."

That's the opening for the second volume of "Whateva" chronicles by Cookin Soul. In the same first track, the producer pulls out a good jazzy beat with vibrant drum machine and a female soulful sample looped in background. Then, Action Bronson with one of his most controversial tracks ever: the rapper drops bars with a smooth flow and hardcore style, Cookin Soul cleaned up the title of the original song. The beatmaker choose a simple and vivid jazzy beat with minimal and hard drum machine, splendid piano bridge for the hook but the hook isn't present, so Action Bronson continues to spit raw bars in a smoothness and violent song. It follows "Potato Salad": jazzy cheerful rhythm, simple, light, good delivery of Tyler, good bridge by Cookin Soul.

Westside Gunn pulls out a dope track, "Gorilla Monsoon", boom bap jazzy in Griselda style, light, relaxing, with a great tense bridge for the hook. Good male soul sample looped in background for the finale. The fifth track it's an interlude. Jazzy, simple, light, relaxing, with minimal and light drum machine, positive vibes. The next one is another interlude, pretty nice rhythmic boom bap jazzy with great female soulful sample looped in the opening. "Terrible Thing to Waste" presents an amazing trumpet samples looped tight in background, simple jazzy beat with drum machine minimal and a pretty nice delivery by MC Melodee. Then, "Street Hop", instrumental track with vibrant jazzy boom bap and good male soul sample looped in background. It follows Wiz Khalifa with "Still Ballin", good jazzy production, deep, drum machine minimal, pretty average delivery by Wiz, hook ok leaving to the beat. The last one is an instrumental song: jazzy boom bap, light and relaxing, with male soul sample looped in background. After that, five instrumentals ("Terrible" is the best in front of "Consensual Rap").

Rating: 8/10.