Ampichino, Young Bossi, and Freeze are three rappers from Akron, OH who have been releasing some of the most impressive rap music for several years now. Chances are you do not know who the fuck these guys are though, but that’s ok, most people don’t. It is pretty difficult to fully grasp why certain rappers blow up and others remain relatively unknown, but I think a large part of it is where you are from. Akron is not exactly the first name in rap music (despite actually having a pretty great scene) and thus these guys have flown under most people’s radar. The Akron scene has aligned itself closely with Bay Area rap in the past decade through countless collaborations and is now starting to get some real attention here in California. The heavy Bay Area collaborations have definitely influenced their style, but they’ve put their own dark spin on the style:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE_awJ213IM]
“hop out the scrape, eat ya face, a paid killa” <— Hard as Fuck
Ampichino, Young Bossi, and Freeze along with a handful of other Akron rappers, have carved out a real distinct niche of gangster rap for themselves, that is either melancholy and introspective or hard as fuck, but usually some unique combination of the two. Basically their raps are along the lines of “I am poor and miserable and I’ll shoot your face off.” If that doesn’t sound like good rap music to you, then I’m sorry to bother you, I’m sure you have to get back to reorganizing your Jurassic 5 vinyl collection.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfiPjjrB35U]
^^^Some real shit on this song. It makes me thankful I did not grow up in their neighborhood.
What appeals to me about their music is that it contains an impressive level of emotional depth and intelligence within the confines of the gangster rap genre. Lots of raps that bounce between remorse over selling drugs and living life illegal and a complete acceptance and boastfulness about everything it has afforded them. Basically they are the Regretcore of rap music. Btw do any of you bros actually live in Akron? Their raps make it sound like an absolutely horrible place filled with nothing but crime and drugs…
Most of the time when someone says a rapper’s music is “actually really smart” it is some terrible rapper that makes white college kids chortle with references to Will Ferrell movies or something. I guarantee you Ampichino, Young Bossi and Freeze will not be making any cute pop culture references anytime soon and continue making raps about selling dope and shooting people for a long time to come.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmjN9FSokjk]
Such a sick beat here, where do they find these producers?
Anyways, the reason I am writing this post is that Ampichino and Young Bossi just came out with a new duo album titled Cop Heavy Gang 2 that is a great listen. It is probably not the best starting point for people interested in the scene (that would be the trio’s City of G’z and Ampichino’s Mysery), but a solid album nonetheless, especially if you like you like dark, depressing raps. Here is a new song from that:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y0-iBx_yoE]
HIGHLY EMOTIONAL MOBB MUSIC (NO HOMO)
If you like what you hear and are looking for more music from this Akron trio, be sure and check out this mixtape I put together last year of the trio’s best songs. Also check out some other quality rappers from the area such as Ren Fetti, Gap, Shoboat, Chino Nino and V12. Have a great day!
rly <3 u, 100grande, you fill the void of rap on sywh and for that, i am much apreesh
backed, regular post plz xoxo
same
Thanks bros! <3 <3 <3 (no homo)
triple back stack, 100K is A+ content and hella witty. no homo.
totally agree on “intelligent” rap (shudder). always lame, and the categorization is more than a little racist. it doesn’t take a close listen to hear that the intellect(s) driving these raps may be criminally inclined, but it’s still high-powered.
since it’s constantly in battle, though, there goes the luxury of accumulating easy consumer reference points, like you said. thus, back into the ‘gangsta’ ghetto for you.
keep banging
” It is pretty difficult to fully grasp why certain rappers blow up and others remain relatively unknown, but I think a large part of it is where you are from”
THIS. Applies to a lot of genres imo, hardcore is definitely guilty
TRUE DAT!! which does kinda suck cuz i do wanna hear how the midwest gets down on not shooting their own brains due to boredom of all the miles upon miles of corn/agriculture, small town gayness/football n baseball worship and boringness n all dat shit…
most of this is fire. good look bro! goodc to c dope MW rap represented!
Daaaaym this shit is good.
Fuck yes.
I am excited for this new Ampichino shit, I downloaded that mixtape a while back and it’s dope. I started reading 100grand after your first post here dude and I love it. I like how I can actually understand what you’re saying (via being white) lolol.
“I like how I can actually understand what you’re saying (via being white) lolol.”
OMG ur so racist I’m telling!!!!11
*rasist.
Have you ever tried reading the comments on rap vids on YouTube? Can’t understand a fucking word they’re saying.
“yo big peaceups 2 tha hustlnigs pullin dat grind up in tha 261 keep it checkkin, stackin dat greezy, reprazentin fo tha soufside, hit a nigga up if you Eva in tha 639 y’all”
I guarantee you most of those comment are from the filth of white.
Thanks bruh, I appreciate the positive feedback and am glad that my blog is understandable.
I appreciate these posts
pshh.. no daytons on dem scrapers??? must be a norcal thing lol
gotta love dat infographic on the ignant seen on the town… i wish our beloved raiders would cum back to el-lay… i hate the chargers so bad!! if only another city would hop into the fold with us to expand da mofuckin’ NFL!!! but i guess i have to wait till the town’s black hole goes so outdated that our beloved raiders will come back to L.A soil again…. not having an nfl team sux… now i know how portland feels =/… hell I’ll even accept the jaguars or bills moving west as long as we get a team dat is not da chargers…. If only the LA avengers/LA Xtreme were still around
=/
oh well… since the lakers n clippers have been knocked out of playoff contention..GO KINGS GO!!! and I’ll even give a shoutout to my beloved doyers and 2011 MLS cup champs but sucking-ballz-so-badly-right-now galaxy up in this bitch… somehow someway one of our sports teams will win a championship one way or another this year…. If you ain’t winning cups,trophies, or rings in el-lay then you’re doing it wrong brahs….
us el-lay peepz are so spoiled tee-hee!!!!
toodaloo motherfuckers ;-D
dat BLEH at the end of “11 freeze”
This is a really good post and now I’m actually interested in KC and OH rap, Thomas. Before I just feigned interest