Starlito (aka All Star) and DJ Burn One’s Renaissance Gangter is the South’s answer to Prodigy and Alchemist’s Return of the Mac. Starlito divides his attention between exploring the gangster mythos and ruminating about weed (“Alright”). DJ Burn One supplies a cohesive backdrop of 70s samples that gives Alchemist’s blaxploitation motif on Return of the Mac a run for its money. The mixtape/street album is out now and is definitely worth a listen. You’re going to want to tell people you were up on Starlito early.
Download: Starlito – What I Was Thinking (produced by DJ Burn One)
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man wtf is this?? starlito needs to come back to when he use was in starlito’s way 1 & 2 mentality… he sucks now
ni66a u crazy this ni66a going ham on every rapper out now… go back and catch back up boy boy
[…] Renaissance Gangster saw DJ Burn One feeding Memphis rapping machine Starlito East Coast sounding beats for an oddly successful marriage of country rap and old school samples. With this unreleased gem, Burn One further demonstrates his ability to make music that defies regional classification. This beat could easily go either West or South. […]
[…] available to every kid with stars in his eyes. But the first Burn One beat I ever listened to was “What Was I Thinkin’”. It was great because of the juxtaposition of a Wu-Tang beat and a Cash Money expat, not because of […]