Even then the song was anchored on wanting to be richer than daddy-a filial pissing contest. Before now, the closest to tenderness he ever got was on ‘Daddy’ from sophomore album, Alaga Ibile. Yet we’ll take what we get, if only because some tenderness shows here. It’s never fully clear if the “one for the road” refers to sex before a break-up or before the beloved travels. There is straight up sex for cash on ‘Konsignment’ and ‘Ibadi.’ The song ‘1.4.D.R (One For The Road)’ featuring Solidstar shows that even for Reminisce, sex can take place within a relationship. The album doesn’t produce any instant classics like ‘Local Rappers’ but works better than Baba Hafusa as a body of work. On his fourth album, El-Hadj, the man has the mix about right. So that with too much of the first two ingredients listed above and not enough introspection, 2015’s Baba Hafusa was rather mediocre. Like other rappers, Reminisce works with an unshakeable belief that today's excess vindicates yesterday's poverty. This, of course, sets the stage for the mandatory celebration of excess: the long queue of easy women, the popping of champagne, the wads of money. Except in discussing how hard life was, how poor his family was. The last two albums mostly featured the fist two items because Reminisce belongs to the group that believes a rapper must not appear too vulnerable. The soup may end up tasty the sex, though, is never in good taste.Īll three items have shown up in his first three albums. Sex, threats, and autobiography-delivered in English, slang and Yoruba. The Reminisce album is a soup of three ingredients.
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