Mixtapes : Action Bronson : Blue Chips
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Who is Action Bronson?
Ariyan Arslani (born 2 December 1983), better known by his stage name Action Bronson, is an American rapper from Flushing, Queens, New York.
His parents are Albanian immigrants. Before entering the rap scene he was a respected fire-flame gourmet chef in New York City, and frequently raps about food in his songs. He hosts his own online cooking show entitled "Action in the Kitchen". He has gained notoriety for lyrically and stylistically resembling rapper Ghostface Killah (with whom he collaborated, along with friend and fellow rapper Termanology, on a song called "Meteor Hammer" from the 2011 compilation album Legendary Weapons). In an interview with HipHopDX, he was asked about how it was to sound like him, and he responded with, "Yeah, I mean at the end of the day, it’s all good because Ghostface Killah is one of the best rappers alive, so if I sound similar to the best rapper alive then that is fine. To me there is no comparison; he is a legend and I am a newcomer. If I would try and emulate with anyone it would be Kool G Rap, he is the person I look up to the most. I am not upset but at the end of the day I am my own person and no one can take that away from me." (Read More)
Blue Chips Review
A new rapper’s tone and inflection are half the battle to making a first impression on the scene, and freshman MC Action Bronson is already the latest inductee to the canon of tenor rappers. But whatever you do, “don’t ever say [his] fucking music sounds like Ghost’s shit.”
Bronsolinio’s God-given gift of a signature tone forms only part of the putty that makes the infinitely quotable and hilarious Blue Chips mixtape stick to the walls. If indeed hip-hop is one of the only genres of music where comedy still carries any kind of currency, then Action Bronson too will be #richforever. Even though his culinary jokes are what separate him from any other (cash and confidence tropes are plated like, “I fuck good and make big C’s like a mango”) it’s never a schtick. He’s more than “That Food Rapper” . On Blue Chips, you get more slices from Bronson’s life than you would expect.
Confidence is always weighed against self-effacement with Bronson. On “Steve Wynn”, atop an leaned-back Aaron Neville sample brought to you by the mixtape’s able producer Party Supplies, the dichotomy is all in one line, “Foul living like Paterno and Sandusky/I’ve been husky/Motherfuckers couldn’t touch me”. At 5’7” and 270 pounds, Bronson makes the best of what’s (a)round, and his hyper-specific imagery illustrates him and his Flushing, Queens neighborhood with a pointillist’s precision. He surrounds himself with Michelin-rated food like roasted bone marrow and Vietnamese snapper, crack-addled hookers with hearts of pure gold, grotesque visions of sexuality recalling John Waters’ Pink Flamingos, and weed, weed, and more weed — staying “higher than an opera note.”
Part of the beauty of Blue Chips is that glut of one-liners isn’t forced into the subconscious by bracketing them with a chorus or muting the beat. They’re bare and spontaneous – woven into the fabric of the Party Supplies’ soulful throwback samples, like The Flamingos’ “I Only Have Eyes For You” (last famously used on The Fugee’s “Zealots”) on one of the highlights of the whole tape, “Thug Love Story 2012”. Young love with Bronson is a sordid affair, replaying the most awkward and garish of circumstances and laying them out like they’re business as usual. In his story, his crusty-footed amor falls down the path of prostitution, but that doesn’t stop Bronson from pining for that…well, you know. Bronson has more sympathy for hookers than Richard Gere in Pretty Woman on this tape, further evinced by the next track “Hookers at the Point” where he adopts a Chapellesque pimp character to talk about the call-girl game. If you didn’t hear the former track, you’d think “Hookers at the Point” was a callous jibe at ladies of the night instead of a cautionary tale. (Read More)
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