Video: Mitchy Slick ft. every Blood ever – Won’t Stop Being A Blood
The song that sums up The Yellow Tape in so many ways. Just structurally speaking, it’s pretty typical of any other song on that compilation: a very short Mitchy Slick verse, a great Mitchy Slick hook, and then a ton of rappers that mostly don’t stand out from each other (with a few exceptions). But then this is the whole point of The Yellow Tape. It’s about family, a show of solidarity with one another.
I once took this blues history class. Towards the end, like in all Black music studies classes, they start trying to make a shaky connection between blues (or whatever genre the class focused on) and hip-hop. Sometimes now though, I hear something like this song and I want to go back and tell my professor that he should use this as a better example. While there aren’t any twanging blues guitars or any shit like that in this song, it has the spirit of the blues in it. Mitchy’s outlook on life–an outlook that acknowledges pain and wants to change but feels like it can’t–is very similar to how many of the blues singers felt. Like Mitchy, they knew that they wanted to change but felt that they were too stuck in their ways to do so. After all, they’re having a hard enough time just trying to survive. That’s why Mitchy won’t quit his gang.
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