Debut album by Alyssa "Mulatto" Stephens, rapper from Atlanta, winner of the first edition of the reality "The Rap Game" in 2016 and freshly nominated in the Freshman Class of XXL, which has been worthless since at least five years.
After declining the contract offered by Jermaine Dupri's label, she embarks on a career as an independent artist and emerges in 2019 with the hit "B*itch from da Souf" (here in Remix version with Saweetie and Trina), which allows her to obtain an agreement with the RCA. There are about twenty people behind the production of the rhythms, among others there's also Murda Beatz, but no one stands out. The guests are Gucci Mane, City Girls, 21 Savage, 42 Dugg, Trina and Saweetie: their performances are all normal, except for 42 Dugg, who does one of his least successful Migos impressions in "Off Top".
On a melodic, varied, accessible and average trap production, Mulatto proves to have a good voice, good dynamic flow and potential, providing several bangers for the club, some ballad / rnb attempts in the closing part, and having fun pulling out bars especially about sex, money and bragging. Composed of 13 tracks and 31 minutes of listening, the album achieved a good commercial success: Mulatto takes part in that sub-genre that falls within the definition of «strip rap», a derivation of the nineties female «dirty rap» that from the "I'm the boss' woman / I'm the gangster's girl" of the post-The Godfather period, it switched to "I'm the hoe of the new one / I'm the girl of the boss' brother's nephew" which first The Goodfellas, then The Sopranos helped to evolve. This is definitely the right lane of rap right now, and the one to which the rapper seems to be able to adapt better, nevertheless, it's precisely the lyric section that holds the entire project down. Recommended to trap and south fans.
Rating: 6/10.
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