Maybach Music Group artist Rockie Fresh has been cooling and modeling for the last couple years but he has returned with another hopeful project (January 21, 2016). Rockie grabbed assists from Ed Sheeran, Rick Ross and Chris Brown on The Night I Went To… Drippy flow.
Stalley came through surprisingly well with his latest mixtape (August 20). The Ohio spitter is talented. What I mean is – he didn’t succumb to the all-powerful MMG sound on The Laughing Introvert, he maintained his own style. Rick Ross and MMG seem to swallow up artists and then spit them back out with a generic, trendy Southern trap sound instead of allowing them to maintain the sound that got them there.
Stalley maintains those blue collar lifestyle bars and the dynamic, steet-smart Jazz beats on his most recent tape. His style reminds me of the nearby Pittsburgh family – Mac Miller, Chevy Woods, 58’s, Jasari X and the once was Wiz Khalifa.
Check out the “Glass Garage” video too.
Rockie Fresh dropped his MMG debut on January 21, 2013. Electric Highway is the last conceptual project that the Chicago emcee has dropped on his own. His style is apparent throughout, the Windy City poet can pen a tale as well as Common but hits em with the bars when he feels it necessary.
Cuts like Thick Bitch (Hit My Jack) made life breezier back then. My hometown patnas of Superior Webbs remixed that song too. Rockie Fresh makes me imagine a more honest Wiz Khalifa. The way he talks about life so blasé, through the lense of marijuana, makes his dreams of woman and fast cars more believable to the every day man.
Since Electric Highway, Rockie’s put out The Birthday Tape, an inappropriately titled tape could’ve been huge if marketed better, and Fresh Veggies, a collaborative tape that went over more Casey than Rockie. All 3 projects came out in the same year. I’m hoping to hear more projects like this one and the first I heard from him – Otherside.
