If there should be one word for Chuuwee, it should be “prolific”. I’m not sure if people have been paying attention. However, this is probably his 5th-6th project in the span of a year. That means he has been releasing enough music to garner more attention. Wild Style, the throwback influenced record with the 90’s flavor, will gather even more positive feedback.

 

Let us just face the facts, here: Chuuwee can rhyme. “40 Oz’s and 40 Sac’s” bring back the old school boom bap and The Black Sheep interpolated chorus to boot. “Put It On”, with a shout out to Big L, lets Chuuwee get “slicker than that Bugatti, pull up like a Maserati/I’m Kamikaze, we bomb sucka ni***z/Nagasaki”. That example of wordplay represents the alliteration and rhyming schemes that were heavily prevalent in the 1990’s. It is easy to say that his rhymes are thematically focused.

 

The beats are consistently pretty good. Chuuwee gets laced by Large Professor on “Pissin Me Off”. “Honey Struck”, an ode to a materialistic female, is driven by production that accents the storytelling mood. “The Wha!?” has Ohbliv bring the dusty chopped loops to serenade Chuuwee’s throwback rhyme patterns. Easily, the beats match the rhymes.

 

If anything, Chuuwee succeeds in formulating a sound that ventures back into the “golden era” of hip hop. However, some may want to write him off. I say “let them do what they do”. Chuuwee has already succeeded in making cohesive projects. Now, he just needs to formulate a plan to drop an unwavering classic. Until then, put Wild Style in and reminisce on an era where it was all about phat beats and rhymes.

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