Lefty Gunplay is a 29 year old rapper from Baldwin Park, California who began his music career in 2023 after a prison stint. He has since dropped 6 full-lengths & an EP, including an outro on “tv off” from Kendrick Lamar’s 6th album GNX around this time 12 months ago. Can’t Get Right produced by Jason Martin formerly known as Problem would become his most celebrated work this spring, coming off Ghetto Heisman‘s mixed reception to have Jason produce his 2nd EP alongside Mike & Keys.
“C-Murder Flow” opens with a homage to the wrongfully incarcerated member of TRU himself almost 2 weeks after No Limit Records smoked Cash Money Records at the Verzuz occurring at ComplexCon whereas Jiggy works in a vocal sample so he can talk about nobody being in his division. “Califa” featuring MC Davo & pfacebabyy finds the trio decently flexing that they’re catching fades throughout the city leading into “M.W.A. (Mexican With an Attitude)” eerily talking about being Hispanic & having an N.W.A mindset.
The song “She Fell in Love with an Ese” beginning the final leg of I Told You So asking if there’s a single person out in the streets who can outrun his gun while “Story of My Life” featuring Coyote, Cricket, Jason Martin & pfacebabyyy gets together over some horns so they can talk about being in the position of making their own rules. The title track ends the EP in the most appropriate way imaginable from the summery guitar instrumental to the lyrics promising that he wouldn’t break his lovers’ heart.
Ghetto Heisman earlier this fall was a little disappointing compared to Can’t Get Right mainly because the production & guests simultaneously felt all over the place in terms of consistency, not quite reaching the bar of WC’s sophomore effort of the same name under Def Jam Recordings over 2 decades earlier. Now regarding I Told You So, it comes off to me as an amalgamation of Ghetto Heisman‘s inconsistencies & Can’t Get Right‘s refinement of Lefty Gunplay’s whole entire Chicano/west coast style.
Score: 3/5
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