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2011 was such a great year for the blog era of music. Don't believe us? That year includes debut releases from future superstars like Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator, and The Weeknd. However, it was also another year of consistency from an artist that is the poster child for this characteristic in Hip Hop. We're talking about Curren$y the Spitta and one of his most highly acclaimed mixtapes in his rather large catalog, Covert Coup. Not only was this a critical project for the Louisiana rapper's musical development at the peak of the industry in the blog era (that being the late 2000s/early 2010s), but it is exclusively produced by Grammy-nominated producer The Alchemist, includes features from artists like Grammy-nominated Freddie Gibbs and the late Prodigy, and was also a pivotal mixtape in Curren$y's musical trajectory into being one of Hip Hop's most consistent artists of the modern era.
For a certain time as an indie act through his label Jet Life Recordings, Curren$y released projects on Bandcamp following Covert Coupe. Most of the projects were collaborative mixtapes with DJ Drama and Harry Fraud. However, these projects truly stretched Spitta's musical element before he continued to release mixtapes every year until now. This project helped start Curren$y's collaborative LPs with producers and even included talent that much of the rap community see as modern icons.
This week, with the homie Dave (@TrapBasquiat) pulling up for the four-peat, we go song-by-song on the 10-track LP and talk about previous Curren$y concerts we've experienced, Freddie Gibbs' rise in the blog era, and how this project became arguably the best mixtape in Curren$y's long list of projects.
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