BOATS II: Me Time is the spiritual successor to 2 Chainz’s first album, Based on a TRU Story — only a bit grimier. Where the first feels clean and poppy, the second exhibits a dirtier sound directly influenced by the Atlanta trap popularized by Gucci Mane’s Bricksquad.
Artist: 2 Chainz
Album: B.O.A.T.S. II MeTime
Released: 2013
Style: Hip Hop
Format: MP3 320Kbps
Size: 163+8 Mb
Music video by 2 Chainz performing Fork. Advanced semiconductor fundamentals pierret solution manuals. (C) 2013 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.' II #METIME' Deluxe Available NowiTunes: h. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2013 CD release of B.O.A.T.S. II #METIME on Discogs. Is heartbreak 2 Chainz and Mike Will Made-It style with betrayal lyrics going ghetto ('Bought a new crib just to f.ck you in') over hypnotic, pounding production. 2 Chainz is still a punch-line rapper at heart, but B.O.A.T.S. II adds some Bootsy Collins charisma and ambitious ringleader style to his discography. Pick the sequel over the.
Tracklist:
01 – Fork
02 – 36
03 – Feds Watching (Feat. Pharrell)
04 – Where U Been (Feat. Cap.1)
05 – I Do It (Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne)
06 – Used 2
07 – Netflix (Feat. Fergie)
08 – Extra (Feat. Rich Homie Quan)
09 – U Da Realest
10 – Beautiful Pain (Feat. Lloyd & Mase)
11 – So We Can Live (Feat. T-Pain)
12 – Mainstream Ratchet
13 – Black Unicorn (Feat. Chrisette Michele & Sunni Patterson)
14 – Outroduction
15 – Employee Of The Month
16 – Live & Learn (I Will) (Feat. Dolla Boy & Pusha T)
17 – Living (Feat. IAMSU!)
01 – Fork
02 – 36
03 – Feds Watching (Feat. Pharrell)
04 – Where U Been (Feat. Cap.1)
05 – I Do It (Feat. Drake & Lil Wayne)
06 – Used 2
07 – Netflix (Feat. Fergie)
08 – Extra (Feat. Rich Homie Quan)
09 – U Da Realest
10 – Beautiful Pain (Feat. Lloyd & Mase)
11 – So We Can Live (Feat. T-Pain)
12 – Mainstream Ratchet
13 – Black Unicorn (Feat. Chrisette Michele & Sunni Patterson)
14 – Outroduction
15 – Employee Of The Month
16 – Live & Learn (I Will) (Feat. Dolla Boy & Pusha T)
17 – Living (Feat. IAMSU!)
Bonus Track:
18 – We Own It (Fast & Furious)
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Whether you like him or not, there’s something undeniably alluring about Georgia rapper 2 Chainz. He’s a 38-year-old thriving in a hip-hop scene saturated with youth. He has one of the most distinctive styles in rap, both musically and fashion-wise. And lying behind his facade of a thugged-out dope dealer is a former basketball star who attended Alabama State University on an athletic scholarship. He’s idiosyncratic, for sure. But that quirkiness and charisma has yet to yield a immersive and cohesive LP needed to be a top tier rapper.
BOATS II: Me Time is the spiritual successor to 2 Chainz’s first album, Based on a TRU Story — only a bit grimier. Where the first feels clean and poppy, the second exhibits a dirtier sound directly influenced by the Atlanta trap popularized by Gucci Mane’s Bricksquad. “Extra” sees him and exciting newcomer Rich Homie Quan spit over a sparse but menacing track dominated by deep brass and strings. “Where You Been” is distortedly beautiful, accented by a vibrant glockenspiel and cinematic horns.
Dell xps disable touchpad. However, that’s not to say he has completely abandoned those experiments at pop that were all over his first effort — on this album, those attempts even sound better and more fleshed-out than his first. There’s the shape-shifting “Employee of The Month”, a song that one minute sounds like a light piano-driven pop hit and the next a scary, walloping banger. “So We Can Live” features a classic T-Pain hook and a smooth R&B beat. He even recruits Fergie for a sultry chorus and surprisingly interesting verse on “Netflix”. 2 Chainz has a good ear for melody, and over his career has developed a talent for making songs with compelling musical breaks and switchups.
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It’s lyrics like “She got a big booty/ so I call her big booty” that have made 2 Chainz a poster child for a perceived regression in rap’s lyrical content. There’s definitely still some of those lazy moments (“Last name Chainz/ First name Two” on “Extra”), and his constant efforts to sound like a street veteran occasionally results in off-putting bars like “I’m working this iPhone, they need an app called iTrap.” It gets a little tiresome. But the ever self-aware 2 Chainz knows these gripes, and even addresses them on “Black Unicorn”. He raps, “Lyrically I could be Talib Kweli/ But with gold teeth it’d be hard for some to believe.” He’s right, and that’s why he sticks to his niche. However, he doesn’t give himself enough credit. The album has a few glimmers of a leveled-up storytelling ability (“So We Can Live” elegantly recounts a particularly stressful encounter with police). It’s the lazy moments that hurt BOATS II; but it’s the flashes of brilliance that point to an even more intriguing third album.
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Though Chainz’s lyricism has improved a smidge, it’s the beats that really stand out. Layered with decadent instrumentation and consistently pounding bass, the music attempts to flash his wealth just as much as his lyrics. While not as rich-sounding as, say, Magna Carta Holy Grail, many of the tracks have a sense of importance and celebration that isn’t found too often. They are still missing that sonic crispness that Chainz is so talented on (remember his verse on Drake’s “All Me”?), but that was probably a conscious choice to keep some of that Dirty South feel he was going for.
2 Chainz won’t ever be the GOAT — he’s not taken seriously enough for that. But he is a rapper that will help define this generation of short-attention-span, wordplay-heavy rap. BOATS II may have better beats and more compelling song structures, but in the end it’s Chainz’s lazy lyrics that have come to characterize his rapping and hold him back from the top. Once his consistency rivals his rivals, he may have a shot at the upper echelon. It’s an evolution that’s still in progress; but at 38, does he have enough time to complete it?