Curren$y – Weekend at Burnie’s
Warner Bros.: 2011
The joy of flying first-class does not come from the ample leg room, the warm towels, the comfy seats, or the bacon-wrapped filet mignon that makes Morton’s look like McDonald’s. No, it is the fact that the Bloody Mary you’re sipping on was complimentary and made with Grey Goose, and the schmuck five feet behind you on the other side of the curtain paid $9 for it and it’s nothing more than Popov and ketchup. Thanks to some “fuzzy green prescription,” Curren$y’s pipe dreams on Weekend at Burnie’s upgrade him from the dreary coach to the “jet life,” the first-class world of beautiful women, dank weed, and all the cars that get rented for music videos.
Weekend at Burnie’s, like most of Curren$y’s works, is as much a producer showcase as it is a lyrical exercise. Monsta Beatz are responsible for the album’s stoner-friendly vibe evident on the cosmic ode to the reeferlution, “Televised”. They’re also behind the deepest track off Weekend at Burnie’s, “She Don’t Want a Man”, where Spitta Andretti gets involved with a woman on a mission to make her husband a cuckold, having copulated with his friends before she even met Spitta. Oh, and they have kids. Despite his questionable taste in women, Curren$y is adept in portraying the woman who feels at least a little guilty about being “in love with the lust that we’ve made” and smoking kush and drinking Ciroc instead of helping her kids with their homework.
“She Don’t Want a Man” aside, stop me if you’ve heard this about a Curren$y album before. Curren$y’s jetsetter ways constitute 98 of every 100 bars on the album, knowing full well why people listen to his molasses flow: to hear him flaunt the life of a guy who’s on a 24/7 vacation, enjoying Mendo Purps and Moet with models in Morocco. Curren$y doesn’t seem to challenge himself, instead preferring to coast over the Monsta Beatz Botox-smooth production that’s tailored to Curren$y’s lazy-river-at-the-water-park delivery. Weekend at Burnie’s doesn’t suggest any growth or progression on Curren$y’s part, as it seems content to just be an album for Curren$y fans instead of a deeper, all-encompassing project.
3 out of 5
We all have our opinions and i cant say that i agree with most of what you say but I do want to point out that he probably doesn’t care about trying to change the flow of his songs to attract more fans because he wants fans who like his music in general, and actually listen to most of his songs as opposed to having fans who are only fans because they like a few popular hype songs
Firstly, I feel this review is VERY well written, I even agree with the score, though I ultimately feel the final conclusion was inaccurate. I reviewed the first Pilot Talk and in retrospect I didn’t give it enough love. It simply is one of the best albums of the past 5 years. It was an introduction to Spitta and crew’s Jet Life ethos over the dusty but digital tapestries of Ski, who’s sound palate is different from Alchemist and their from production team Monsta Beatz. Pilot Talk II took from the first installment and relished in the fruits of the first’s labor while drenching the sound in southern boom bap. They are similar, while Covert Coup is a treatise on lucid experiences in street life articulating game on how not to be a sucker for love or labels. People let the weed smoke, pretty girls and muscle cars cloud Spitta’s narratives and REDONKULOUS in the pocket of EVERY FUCN BEAT lyricism. Which leaves us with Weekend @ Bernie’s which falls flat at times because the production is a bit too glossy and drowns the silk of his rhymes out. Spitta is THEE MAN he just released one of his weaker lps.
I think u hit the nail on the head. I am no doubt a pretty big spitta fan but it’s starting to feel like if u have one album or mixtape by Curren$y then u basically have them all. It’s hard to get excited for his releases as much a I want to.
I read them now, and I disagree and think that Pilot talk 1 is better than 2, but that is a different argument for a different time. It just seems like, from what I got from your writing, was that you came in almost expecting it to be the same and once you realized it was pretty similar, you took (more of a) negative outlook. I understand what your point is and that 3 isnt even necessarily bad, but, honest question, what were you expecting? The next Chronic?
Guess you didn’t read my Pilot Talk II review, which was quite favorable. In addition, Covert Coup has been in my rotation since it dropped. But when you release a lot of material in such a short time span and they’re all practically the same album, where’s the growth? He’s technically better than when he was rapping with the Squad, but he should be considering that was almost 10 years ago. 3’s not even a negative score. That’s a “you didn’t screw it up and it’s chill to listen to with some good tracks but damn this sounds exactly like the last 3 projects you put out” score. And I like Currensy. So….
he gives us so many mixtapes that have quality. i dont mind spending a few dollars on his official releases.
The way you talk about Curren$y seems to show that you don’t really like him as a rapper. Why review and album for a rapper you don’t like? I find it to be a bit biased. Obviously it doesn’t make it any more legit if you are a mega fan saying how great he is. It’s just that it seems like you come with the attitude that he really isn’t good anyway and you don’t give it a chance and the fact that he gets so much love makes you feel he is overrated. I dunno, that may come off weird, but I feel like you came into reviewing it thinking it was going to be a bad album and not giving it a chance.