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Kokayi Sa-Ra Big Lo
by K. Sa-Ra
January 2006

K Sa-Ra rating scale:
1 = Eyes, the best that you can get
You may tell ya fam, "good lookin'" when they drop a project on you of this rating.
2 = Ears
This means you will be excited to hear more from this artist "ya heard".
3 = Nose
This rating is like when you find this mysteriously wrapped plate in the fridge. First you look at it...then you smell it. It's as if smelling it will clears up all the confusion. It's the same when you find clothes on the floor. Before you decide what to do with it, you what? That's right. You smell it. In fact, when you’re really confused, you ask someone else to smell it.
4 = Butt
An underground artist really doesn't want this mark. It means that this is where you pulled that project from.
5 = Brains
The last, and most degrading rating you can receive is a 5. This rating, I like to call "brains". Not because it's a work of genius, but because this is what you must have been giving someone in order to get this project out of the studio!
'Nuff said!

Big Lo - Seasons Change CD cover





Now, what up fam? I know it's been quite a while, but you know how that get. Let's push this right along. I hope ya'll recall the rating scale? You got it? Good!

The next artist up to bat is a cat by the name of "big Lo". The title of this predominantly self-produced project is "Where am I going?" The project contains 15 tracks, of which Big Lo produced 8. Several of the tracks were produced by people from the Netherlands, Alaska, Germany, and New York.

The high of the project has to be big Lo's delivery. The boy sounds very comfortable in the booth. Big lo seems to ride the beats with ease. Big lo gives a few metaphors here, some intellect there, a zig in ya zag. You get the picture. I have to say this. I did find a lot of the string samples, and some of the production to be tight. Big lo infused some mid eastern strings, and overseas flava. It was cool.

The caution and concern about this project is the contradiction of the material. Somewhere, someone made the decision to pull in opposite directions at the same time throughout the entire damn project. Either Big lo is trying to be a corny, spiritual intellect, or he is a fake ass wanna be thug. Therein lies the flaw. On one song it's about saving hip-hop and the children from "unnamed artists" that speak on drugs, bitches hoes and killings. Then on the very next take, he does an entire song to drugs, numerous references to bitches, hoes, killings, and thugism. I would say, "NEGRO , PLEASE!", but he's white. Big Lo pushes the envelope of a Muslim jihad, anti-America, anti-Zionism rebel thug, who will peel ya cap and "f@#!" ya "bitches" if you cross him. Look. Either this cat is a confused ex-military fanatic, or current intelligence operant. I'll put this project in a nutshell by quoting the beloved disciples Dead Prez: "if you a liar liar/pants on fire/wolf crier/agent with a wire/I'm gon' know it when I play it/It's bigga' than HIP-HOP. This project gets flagged with a 3, and a 4 respectively.

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