![]() The belligerent tone starts in the album’s opening seconds in which Flocka chants “pow pow pow” over gun sounds. Flocakveli is a visceral, addicting album that pulls the focus away from the rapper’s persona and puts it on the music instead.įlockaveli sounds of one piece from beginning to end, a rarity in rap releases. Some critics have called Waka Flocka the first “post-lyrical” MC and meant it as a compliment. ![]() Flocka clearly values energy and aggression over craft and, in a year when multi-million productions like Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Rick Ross’s Teflon Don are deservedly praised as among the best releases, the results feel startlingly unpretentious and honest. His studio debut, Flockaveli, is filled with anti-social fight music that demands to be played at high volume. Waka Flocka Flame is part of a rising, unaffiliated group of rappers that is the closest thing to punk rock that hip hop has seen since Eminem.
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