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Both on and off the mic, Bronsolini gives off a larger than life vibe. He’s a comic persona, as comfortable eating a Monday lunch with three different kinds of forks as he is killing it at a nursing home in the UK. The dude has charisma like Cam. As he says on Blue Chips 2, “Fuck swag, got pizzazz.”
Bronson has stepped his game up, in more ways than one. Taking a page from the Gatsby playbook, he’s now fixing Knicks game, intimidating Pat Riley with Mafioso tactics. On “9.24.13,” he drops jewels: “I told the driver Lenny swing me by the Garden, I gotta talk to Pat/showed him some stacks, then showed em’ the gat/like, ‘you’re gonna miss the finger roll, right?’/yes Mr. Baklava/then I cartwheeled into an aqua car.”
Although he’s got bars for days, Bronson is really only as good as the guy behind the boards. His taste for sleaze and weird sex starts to grate when the backdrop is dark and unforgiving, which is what can happen when he works with other producers. Teaming up with Party Supplies (who looks weirdly like Girl Talk) yields much different results. When the mood is light and the samples are from YouTube, Bronson floats along with a blissed out grin, as if he’s just finished a perfect dessert of foie gras crème brulee chased with a G Pen.
Lyrically, Bronson is usually nice, but with Party Supplies on board his eye for detail gets novelistic. Flipping the Champs “Tequila” on “Pepe Lopez,” he lists off the following: 89’ Firebirds, Wyatt Earp guns, Rambo knives in Escada purses, Pittsburgh micks, Nevada nurses, 98′ Mark McGwire shirts, etc. Airy beats bring out his best.
Blue Chips 2 revolves around “Contemporary Man,” a jam that has Bronsolini channel surfing between 80s classics by Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, John Mellencamp and more. This era pops up elsewhere, with a Tracy Chapman loop on “Amadu Diablo” and a synth sample on “Silverado.”
I’m surprised Andrew Dice Clay didn’t make a cameo to close the reference loop.
Download Blue Chips 2 here.