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Shante Anthony Franklin (born April 4, 1981 in New Orleans, Louisiana), better known by his stage name Curren$y, is an American rapper and former member of the group Fly Society. Previously a member of Lil Wayne's Young Money Entertainment, he joined the No Limit Records collective as a teenager. After releasing countless free mixtapes online he released his debut album, This Aint No Mixtape on April 21, 2009. Curren$y is also a former member of Master P's rap group 504 Boyz Read more on Last.fm
Laid-back chilled out hip hop at its best, but no deviation from any of his previous works. Curren$y continues to deliver, but, and I may be alone in this, I wish he’d utilize his mixtapes and EPs for doing something off from his norm.
Save for the best bars to date to go over ‘Ye’s “Drive Slow” instrumental (“#CruiseLife”), here we have not much more than another solid piece of vibe merchandise from the inimitable Spitta. It belongs in the upper third of his prolific output, but its brevity (five songs) is both its blessing and a curse in that it plays perfectly together front-to-back, but doesn’t linger long enough to feel like a classic. I’ll still round from 3.5 up to a 4, though, because of its clearly careful construction. Curren$y is one of the game’s few total-package guys.
Curren$y’s got the laid-back hip-hop on lock, and ‘Here’ is no exception. He doesn’t stray from the path much stylistically, so the five songs come out fairly predictable—save for an ingeniously-placed tempo change about halfway through #CruiseLife. If you like Curren$y’s prior work, you’ll like this EP.