Blue Chips 7000
As a trained chef, Action Bronson knows the value of seasoning. On the mic, the Queens MC has always cut his swagger and braggadocio with valuable splashes of humor and self-awareness. Maintaining that recipe, his latest marks of luxurious living include memory-foam mattresses (“Let It Rain”), pretzels (Rick Ross collaboration “9-24-7000”), and calling limo services to rhyme over their hold music (“La Luna”). When they’re not culled from phone calls, the rich beats and samples are drawn deep from the crates, matching the lyrics for their compelling mix of accessibility and invention.
Action Bronson’s second studio album is also the third installment of his Blue Chips mixtape series. It’s full of bare raps and funky beats, of unadorned samples and dopey swaggering.
Action Bronson's second major-label album is also the third volume of Blue Chips, the first two of which were mixtapes that preceded the rapper's first Atlantic-supported LP, the Top Ten hit Mr. Wonderful.
Action Bronson has always been considered a consistent artist, and rightly so: He's a rapping machine with an incredibly complex rhyme schem...