Being a notable MC’s right hand man has always had its fair share of benefits. You get to tour, scoop up residual groupies and get your name hollered during roll call tracks. However, when it comes time to showcase skill under the spotlight of a solo album, few sidekicks have been able to measure up to their more famous counterparts. Big Kuntry King’s latest album, My Turn To Eat attempts to cash in on that Grand Hustle sound that has worked so well for Young Dro and T.I. Unfortunately, King’s lyrical skill and sub-par delivery render him unable to live up to other Grand Hustle releases. Read the rest of this entry »

Shawty don’t be flexin’ like I’m wrong when I’m dead right
I’m a keep it pimpin, I’m was wonderin’ what the head like Read the rest of this entry »

The album cover might be a lost art in these days of consumers who don’t make the trip to their local record shops to purchase physical copies. For many of us, album covers & liner notes have always been part of the experience of the album, an essential part. Hip-Hop has had it’s fair share of great album covers to go along with some not-so-great ones as well.

Needless to say, when we first saw Big Kuntry King’s album cover for his Grand Hustle debut, My Turn To Eat, there were mixed emotions. On one hand, we “got it”…but at the same time we had to think “who the fuck greenlighted this shit?”

So before we wrote it off, we decided to reach out to Kuntry to get some of the backstory & an explanation on the cover. And what follows are his words as told to the Crew’s D. Chanda regarding the thousand dollar burger that any fast food employee would be envious of.

One thing’s for sure — We can’t make this type of shit up on our own.

TSS: Let’s talk about the album cover.

Kuntry: (Laughs) Aww shit. You liked it?

TSS: I thought it was hilarious. Was that the intention?

K: You see, me, I’m a practical joker. I talk shit and have fun but I’m for real. So I said, ‘Well, do I wanna be a rapper showing my gangsta lean with my chain on? Nah, I don’t wanna do that same old shit.’ So what I did was put the money in the burger to represent my turn to eat so you can see the sense of humor about it but then say, ‘That’s what I want.’ When you see that burger, everybody wants a burger like that. I want that. That’s a lot of money in that burger. Almost damn six or seven thousand dollars in that burger. So it represents the hustle, period. You know, if we had light bulbs or question marks come on the top of your head, when we hustle, that’s what we should see: that burger with that money. Now let’s get it. It’s our turn to eat.

TSS: So the intention was to be both out-of-box and comical? Read the rest of this entry »

For lack of promotional hype, one might not be aware that Grand Hustle has not one, but two releases in stores on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »