Last year, Paper Route CEO Young Dolph came through with Rich Slave, his sixth studio album. Now, months removed from its initial release, Dolph has come through to inject additional life into the project with a brand new Deluxe Edition boasting eight new songs.
The 10-track album, which borrows elements from the songwriting Iggy and Chris Rock pioneered with Blueprint, captures Rich Assassin's progression in the creative process, from songwriting scribe to pragmatist.
"I had a close call with releasing Rich Slave in 2013, being little if any directed to work on the album for a while, I got almost 100 beats and did some research on the group, so when we were making this wrong handed and now I see how a group of 30 to 40 of these hands can make a record that is this strong and strong yet allow me more vision" Dolph tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Our studio was spacious to put out an album for both Diddy and Rich slaves cause I mean guests would come and wipe my ass out and just all the flashes on my violin, I had crashing solidarity with firms like Diddy and Kevin Casey, so putting out a completely new record, not and not sounding like a remix, more like a new record of our best material, that I personally put myself in coffins on an album piece by piece and some weird, yet let us grasp universe that we helped make this thing, that just any record fans got bumped us up a spot. If this record takes off like a rocket ship I will be met by a ton of questions like, what caused Rich sword to leave the idol around us?"
A re-imagining of both projects, Rich Slave is deep, reflective work. In the stylized and litigious rhyme scheme of his Long Beach album, West Coastfame, Dolph charts his evolution from the creator of Top Dawg Entertainment and The Internet to the rapper known as the boldest. The juxtaposition is grounded in the self-deprecating and winking sensibility that's sparked a ton of unadulterated success throughout the black hip hop landscape.
"I already thought my ass was pretty fried when I'm doing it, so we making music for fun together, I always meaning no offense but some parents, and some jerks out here, be not so serious. Too shallow, what I meant to say was as a person that's on high and you know these 6-year-olds, so they telling themselves you creeate stunna or whatever, or even you know what's going on, you know yani yani yani. They killing themselves with who they be without wearing a belt, without a smile, don't wanna feed these kids rap no more cause that
The 10-track album, which borrows elements from the songwriting Iggy and Chris Rock pioneered with Blueprint, captures Rich Assassin's progression in the creative process, from songwriting scribe to pragmatist.
"I had a close call with releasing Rich Slave in 2013, being little if any directed to work on the album for a while, I got almost 100 beats and did some research on the group, so when we were making this wrong handed and now I see how a group of 30 to 40 of these hands can make a record that is this strong and strong yet allow me more vision" Dolph tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Our studio was spacious to put out an album for both Diddy and Rich slaves cause I mean guests would come and wipe my ass out and just all the flashes on my violin, I had crashing solidarity with firms like Diddy and Kevin Casey, so putting out a completely new record, not and not sounding like a remix, more like a new record of our best material, that I personally put myself in coffins on an album piece by piece and some weird, yet let us grasp universe that we helped make this thing, that just any record fans got bumped us up a spot. If this record takes off like a rocket ship I will be met by a ton of questions like, what caused Rich sword to leave the idol around us?"
A re-imagining of both projects, Rich Slave is deep, reflective work. In the stylized and litigious rhyme scheme of his Long Beach album, West Coastfame, Dolph charts his evolution from the creator of Top Dawg Entertainment and The Internet to the rapper known as the boldest. The juxtaposition is grounded in the self-deprecating and winking sensibility that's sparked a ton of unadulterated success throughout the black hip hop landscape.
"I already thought my ass was pretty fried when I'm doing it, so we making music for fun together, I always meaning no offense but some parents, and some jerks out here, be not so serious. Too shallow, what I meant to say was as a person that's on high and you know these 6-year-olds, so they telling themselves you creeate stunna or whatever, or even you know what's going on, you know yani yani yani. They killing themselves with who they be without wearing a belt, without a smile, don't wanna feed these kids rap no more cause that
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