Continuing with his No Mixtape campaign, Bun Beeda lays the verbal smack down over DJ Khalil’s original production for Slaughterhouse.

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Download — Bun B – “Cuckoo”

And while I have the space, let me clear up a statement I made the other day regarding whether or not I’ll be buying Trill OG.

– Counting the tagged posts, there are 64 posts mentioning Bun B on this site. There’s most likely anywhere from 40-50 more floating around here that were written previous to the upgrade and the implementation of tags. And that’s not counting entries specifically tagged “UGK”.

– I’ve already stated that if I were a new artist given a budget for my album, Bun would be the first artist I paid for a feature.

– As far as influences go, there’s only a few artists who have had a continued presence with their influence on me to the same degree as Bun. I can remember being a young knucklehead and sitting @ Cookiehead’s house, listening and mesmerized by “Something Good” and “Pocket Full Of Stones.” I was 16 then. I’m still mesmerized when I listen to “You’re Everything” and catch a chill every time I listen to him rip Jeezy’s “Trap Or Die.”

– As also stated previously, I have a great respect for Bun because I see him taking an active role in embracing and mentoring many of the younger artists in the game.

– I read quite a bit about jazz and various artists. Currently, I’m reading Ashley’s Kahn’s tome about Coltrane & the journey to create A Love Supreme. One thing I’ve always noted about jazz greats is that they always evolved, never sticking to one particular style or sound. By the time the followers caught up with the innovations the leaders were doing, those leaders were on to a new discovery. In rap, it doesn’t work like that but it should. What do rap’s elders do? The same shit they’ve always done or taking the same approach as newcomers, making the two indistinguishable.

Where some are critical of Jay’s last album and TC seemingly detests Mos for his “lazy ass crooning” on The Ecstatic, I enjoyed both a lot. I’m not calling them perfect works of art, but I can see a sense of a different direction being taken, changes that need to be made in order to keep the culture groundbreaking and dynamic. In order for music and art to grow, change has to and should occur every few years.

That’s part of the path I wish for Bun and any other artist. Continue being trailblazers in our music. We need you.

– I vote with my dollars, therefore I have the right to speak up. Bun (and UGK) is one of the few artists that I can proudly say that I own every retail release for. If you aren’t buying, you really don’t have a right to say Artist A is this or that. So therefore…

— Trill OG, The Naked Soul Of Sweet James Jones and No Mixtape, all coming soon. And given both mine and Bun’s track record, I’ll be buying.