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Deepspace5, The Blueprint 3 Outtakes
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Deepspace5
The Blueprint 3 Outtakes



Album length: 13 tracks: 36 minutes, 21 seconds
Street Date: September, 2009


Hip hop supergroup Deepspace5 recently released their long-awaited album, The Future Ain't What It Used To Be. But before that, in late 2009, if you were to hit up deepspace5.com, you would've had access to an exclusive, impromptu mixtape available as a free download. It had thirteen solid hip hop tracks, all influenced by Jay-Z... sort of.

Jay-Z's latest album, The Blueprint 3, was one of 2009's most successful mainstream releases. During its pre-production stages, freelance producer/beatmaker Alex Goose composed some tracks that that he submitted to Jay-Z in hopes that he would use them on The Blueprint 3. Unfortunately for Goose, none of his beats made the cut, despite their quality and the fact that they sounded like beats you would hear on a Jay-Z album. But Goose was so proud of these beats that he had to share them, and he released them as a free download on his website for anyone who wanted them. This is where Deepspace5 comes in. While working on The Future..., they took time off, got Goose's tracks (which he titled The Blueprint 3 Outtakes), and composed thirteen fabulous hip hop tracks.

DS5's version of The Blueprint 3 Outtakes (which keep the same title) features five of the seven emcees in the group (there's no Listener or Sev Statik on this mixtape). Despite the release being so out-of-nowhere and having no record label backing, it's still as high quality of an album as DS5 fans have come to expect. While some of the emcees are more skilled than others, each one shines just as brightly as the others this time around. Fred B. is one that is pretty hit and miss when it comes to flow, but he's at the top of his game in "We In Here" and "Goose Needs This" (originally titled "Hova Needs This" on Goose's mixtape). sintax.the.terrific gets his own track on the low-key "Dear Daisy," and the similarly-titled "Dear Winter" gets the similar, one-emcee treatment with the similar-sounding manCHILD, getting a minute to himself. Sivion leads off the thumping beats of "No One Rides For Free," rapping about the free gift of "grace and eternity," while also tearing up the opening track "We In Here."

Playdough and manCHILD are featured most prominently in this mixtape, both appearing on nearly every track. What's interesting is that, while each of the emcees have their own flow style, and they do their own thing here as well, Playdough and manCHILD change theirs up a little. It's definitely due to the beats, which don't really reflect most (or any) of what you'd hear on their own albums. And they both do a great job adapting. Playdough's style seems to have changed the most. The mixtape highlight "Goose Needs This" showcases his usual sound (reminding me a little of his solo track "Don't Drink The Water"), but "Check Me Out Now" has him doing more of a gangsta sound, and his verse in "Brakes" makes his sound comparable to Jay-Z (appropriately enough).

Now, since The Blueprint 3 Outtakes was released independently, some of the emcees were a little more liberal as far as lyrical content than they would have been had they gone through Gotee like their last studio album (though they're with MegaRoyal Records now). While there's nothing outrageously vulgar, some of the lyrics would be considered offensive to some listeners. I counted one use of "taking a p*ss," and three or four (at least) uses of "n*gga." I also felt somewhat uneasy with the line "Your rap's so gay you should've featured Ellen on it." Altogether it's really not the worst you'll find in the genre, but still questionable regardless.

You know you can always count on Deepspace5 to produce a fantastic album, whether it's backed by a label or not. Goose's beats were fresh and clean by themselves, and adding DS5's verses only made them better. And to top it all off, as Fred B. says, "It's gratis y'all, we bless the beats." Aside from the objectionable content sprinkled on it, The Blueprint 3 Outtakes will please me more than The Blueprint 3 any day.

- Review date: 5/31/10, written by Scott Fryberger of Jesusfreakhideout.com



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. Record Label: Mega Royal Records
. Album length: 13 tracks: 36 minutes, 21 seconds
. Street Date: September, 2009
. Download It: MegaRoyalRecords.com

  1. We In Here
  2. Rise
  3. In The Same Old World
  4. Dear Daisy
  5. Goose Needs This
  6. Check Me Out Now
  7. Brakes
  8. No One Rides For Free
  9. Golden Boid
  10. What You Rap About
  11. Dear Winter
  12. Go Deep
  13. Walk Away

 

 

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