Categories:
Beats: 4
Rhymes: 4
Quality: 4
Content: 4
Consistency:4
Overall: 4
Open your text books turn to chapter seven and you will find a man invading the streets of Atlanta college campuses with a red paint brush. This man is Red Baron with his debut album, Paint The Town Red on Strange Fruit Productions. WARNING: This album contains 13 tracks chock full of God’s Word, dope lyrics, and cinematic production.
The album’s opening song is “One” in which he tells of how there is one God and we are one in Christ. “Beautiful” is a song describing and encouraging a women’s true beauty. “HipHopcrisy” talks about how Hip Hop has been perverted by money and self glorification. Red Baron spits, “Now our kids are starving cause we’ve been feeding ‘em garbage, we produced it we rapped it and then we bought it, we call these neo pimps and hustlers artists, gave them awards when their thoughts are Godless”.
Red Baron spits about how financial aid payments, no food, and parking tickets won’t take away his praise on “I Still Got This Praise”. He also gives you a descriptive tale of the day our savior was crucified on the album’s closing song, properly titled, “The Cross”.
This album’s standout tracks are “Long Kiss Goodbye” and “Eyes Wide Shut” (my favorite). “Long Kiss Goodbye” talks about the relationship between a man and the women we were once faithful to, the world. Red Baron spits about how he had to end this relationship due to the pull away from God that the world so strategically cast upon us. “Eyes Wide Shut” features The Remnant (shouts out to Fan Club). The production on this song will place you into a movie setting as these four mc’s talk about those walking and leading blindly. Lyrically and conceptually the best song on the album.
The only weak points of Paint The Town Red are the songs, “Red Baron” and “Paint The Town Red”, though good songs, they just don’t measure up to the rest of the album. Other than that this album is a straight banger. Please cop three and don’t front. Be sure and lookout for more Red Baron projects, this is only the beginning for this bright emcee.
For more info and to cop the album and see Red Baron log onto:
www.paintedred.net and www.sonicbids.com/redbaron.
Peace Until Next Time!
Double
DOUBLE – BYOBB (OCT 5, 2005)
