Segga Spicoli – Mid Night On Broad (Bandcamp)
Youth is a tricky thing. It’s like fire; it can keep you warm, but at the same time it can and will burn you. Segga is upfront about his age, just as much as he is about his ways, and also his wisdom.
Segga Spicoli – Mid Night On Broad (Bandcamp)
Youth is a tricky thing. It’s like fire; it can keep you warm, but at the same time it can and will burn you. Segga is upfront about his age, just as much as he is about his ways, and also his wisdom. The opening track, “North 18th Street,” does a good job of setting the tone for this project, which is only 6 tracks long. Though he keeps it street all the way through, he does sprinkle in a gang of influences, 90’s era technique (“Paid In Full”), confidence, and of course some nonsense (“Substance Abuse”). Curiously the UGK-ish “Sweet Jones Jr.” has what could have been a track by itself tacked onto the end of it, which made me stop and check to make sure I was still listening to the same record. Segga’s lyrics, though simple at times, get the job done while leaving plenty of room for improvement in the form of potential rather than pretension and disappointment. Segga burns with hunger on every offering: to escape his circumstances, to overcome his past and present, to have a future. Sure, he may dream of cars and material things (“Plush Leather”), admittedly he does use the N-word a lot (a syllabic crutch that I believe he is perfectly capable of overcoming), and yes, he talks that “turn-up” stuff a bit, but at the core of all of this is a young talent. That is the very fire in which he burns brightest, and hopefully the fire that The Life he leads will not be extinguished.
[We keep ending up with odd numbers of these mixtape reviews! Sorry about that. Only one review this week, but there’s more to come! Stay tuned. –ed.]
