Weekend at Burnie's - Curren$y album review

Curren$y’s latest project takes its name from the film “Weekend at Bernies”, a film rife with 80’s wackiness and slapstick humor. Curren$y’s music of course is nothing like this movie, the title likely chosen to arouse stoner film nostalgia in his target audience. If you’ve enjoyed Curren$y’s Pilot Talk albums or his recent mixtapes, you will feel at home enough to take a number deuce with “Weekend at Burnies”. His lyrics are significantly more complex and clever than his contemporaries such as Wiz Khalifa or a Big Sean, but he doesn’t stray too far from his cache of cliché topics, namely I grind more than the others, I kept my mind on the money and not the women, which led me to afford a lifestyle of stardom, fast cars, and… uhh… women. Monsta Beatz handles the bulk of the production and does an excellent job, mimicking the best elements of 90’s west coast g-funk and 90’s east coast jazz influenced rap (think Pharcyde, DJ Quik, Tribe Called Quest), keeping it varied enough not to make the subject matter sound stale. Guest producer, Havoc of Mobb Deep, scores the album’s only conceptual track “She Don’t Want a Man”, finding Curren$y examining the mindset of why women with stable relationships still cheat

She was a little red Corvette, fast as hell, turned heads on the set

Pretty skin, soft voice, asking for rough sex

Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets,

This particular evening she wanted to ride jets

Even though I knew shawty was bad news, I played it cool

Vowing to never turn sucka like them other dudes

Misreading signals.. attachment issues,

Getting way too into the grip of the vagina lips

Got homies searching for relationships,

She not tryna hear it… my type of bitch

She ran a story to me over grape juice and Ciroc sips

Married to a doctor.. cuddle master

Don’t fuck her just buy her.. anything tryna satisfy her

On the low, she fucking his partners, fill the void inside her

Cause she wasn’t fucking with a rider

Curren$y does not tinker with his engine for “Weekend at Burnie’s “. The beats are laid back and regionally ambivalent, the subject matter is not too deep but the lyrics are witty enough to illicit repeated listening. Guest appearances are few and limited to his J.E.T.S. camp, but they are solid, most notably Young Roddy’s. I wouldn’t play this at a packed dancehall or do a thesis on it, but it is excellent cruise music, or mood music to accompany your EZ Widers, junk food and campy 80’s movies.

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Weekend at Burnies receives a PAR

Monsta Beatz handles the bulk of the production and does an excellent job, mimicking the best elements of 90’s west coast G-funk and 90’s east coast jazz influenced Rap (think Pharcyde, DJ Quik, Tribe Called Quest), keeping it varied enough not to make the subject matter sound stale. Guest producer, Havoc of Mobb Deep, scores the album’s only conceptual track “She Don’t Want a Man”, finding Curren$y examining the mindset of why women with stable relationships still cheat…