Fresh off the success of the critically acclaimed mixtape'For the love of Elizabeth' your boy Skwilla da Gorilla comes even harder with his latest offering for the street 'From a penny to a pound'.
Hosted by the Souths mixtape king Mykal Million this mixtape shows a significant rise in the standard of Skwillas work,both in his flow/delivery and his content/concepts which has been missing from the UK hiphop game recently and to be precise this is more of an album than a mixtape as the beats are all original productions which gives to an added feel authenticity to this project which is a definite bonus.With 18 tracks and 5 bonus tracks Skwilla manages to cover most bases but is at his most comfortable on tracks like'They testing me''love vs hate'and 'Made Men'-feat Blade,which are all heavy rugged street bangers for he man dem' and He manages to convey his street knowledge as well as his regrets an dreams into these tracks as easily as He issues a threat to his enemies like on the excellent bonus track 'Holla' with lines like "My line pings like a blackberry/getting mad skrilla see I stack heavy/stick up your white house jack your Pressie/know the time when I jack you for your bezzie/my eyes are the window to my soul/I seen alot of hard done shit on the roads/man rocking silver calming that its gold/a lot of money makes a young nigga feel old."
Its with bars like this and tracks like'The interview'-feat Mykal Million,'Dirty Cane' and'Game over'-feat Timbar are some of the best bits of UK hiphop to drop over the past few years added with tracks like'Letter to my lost ones'which finds Skwilla showing a comendible amount of strength as he writes a letter to his Late Mother and others in a way anyone who has lost someone dear to them will understand and its the ability to fashion thought provoking tracks like this and 'Question a G' that should position Skwilla as on of the best in the UK
Cop this on sight if you love real road music!9 out of 10.
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