RAP
Following in the foot steps of Nelly and Chingy, J-Kwon is the latest rapper to emerge from the streets of St. Louis. On his fun if flawed debut, the 18-year-old emcee displays a penchant for the same good-time rhymes and party-rocking beats that have made Nelly and Chingy hip-hop stars. The hit first single, "Tipsy," is a club-banging ode to inebriation that he prefaces with a halfhearted disclaimer ("Teen drinking is very bad"). Later, on the raunchy "Underwear," with its vaguely Middle Eastern riff, he espouses the joys of marijuana and (safe) sex in his drawled delivery. Clearly, this teenager has run with the fast crowd in the hood.
