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What Would Meek Do?

I was very late to the Pusha T game. When Pusha T put out King Push at the end of 2015 it came highly recommended through the Get Up On This podcast, so I checked it out and from that day on have fully been on board..which inevitably sent me back to the Clipse's classic Hell Hath No Fury and debut Lord Willin'. It's sort of odd it took me that long to get aboard, back in the early 2000's I was aware of the Clipse's radio hits (specifically Grindin' because of the Kardinal Offishall colab on it) but I just never took the time. Well, 2018 brought us King Push's newest offering Daytona. Is it fully of clever wordplay, hard rhymes, vivid pictures and top notch production? Yes. Does it feature a verse by Kanye that starts with "Poop. Scoop! Whoop. Whoopty-whoop!"? Yep (and the delivery of those few words is so infectious). Do I have any complaints about the album? Na, it's a little short I guess at 7 songs and just under 22 minutes (I consider it to be another EP rather than an album, similar to King Push) but those 22 minutes are absolute fire.

I'm a little slow on reviewing Lay's Southern Biscuits & Gravy (which was apparently the 2015 Do Us a Flavor winner..and re-released in 2018). They smell like rosemary. They taste like salty, creamy rosemary (but not too much rosemary to make it overpowering) chips..with a bit of a bite..like a mild black pepperish heat. The chips are standard mid crunch lays that are pretty uniform in colour (not really any brown chips and no skins). They're "Guaranteed Fresh Until April 24" 2018..but I'm consuming them on December 28th and there's no trace of them being stale, so you know, dates are meaningless usually. Pretty good chips, I'd place them in the sour cream and onion family as a second or third cousin. They're adventurous chips for those that prefer the beaten path and think of pepper as hot sauce and ketchup as being wild.

Biscuits & gravy are a southern states thing right?..Is Virginia considered the south?

Stay hydrated,
Marc

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