Curren$y continues to build on his JETS brand. After deciding to opt out of Lil' Wayne's Young Money label a few years back to go for dolo, the Hot Spitta has developed a cult-like following of his own. Backed by Damon Dash's DD172 imprint and Ski Beatz' (Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt) breezy production , Curren$y returns with Pilot Talk II ( his second album this year). Picking up where Pilot Talk left off, Spitta sets the mood with the eerie horns of "Airborne Aquarium", a moody number produced by the aforementioned Ski Beatz and the Senseis ( who produced eight of the album's thirteen tracks). Curren$y spits: " Rearview clear vision memories of paid dues/ Confined to a runway/ Thunderstorms came through/ But look what it came to/ Somethin that amazes you/ Soon as you quit hatin' / And hear what I gotta say to you". The vivid wordplay continues on the '80's inspired "Michael Knight", named after David Hasselhoff's character from the popular TV show Knight Rider. The JETS general puts his pimp hand down with lines like, " I fill your jacuzzi with them groupies/ Make it a bird bath/ Miss me? / No you didn't bitch/ With that bullshit 'Miss me'/ Tryna claim Spitta name/ Tryna be Mrs. Me/ All of that kicks to me/ Silly Rabbit trickery/ You only around/ Because my spot is where you wish to be/ Hope to catch me sleeping by being freaky/ But baby girl/ Let me be the first to say its not that easy / I wasn't born yesterday / Nor later on that evenin/ Just had to get that out the way/ And make the playing field even". Curren$y subject matter remains the same throughout , as: weed, money and girls dominate PTII'S topics. When Spitta does try to change things up, it comes off as forced. A clear example is "Silence" , where Curren$y's lazy flow, equipped with singer Mckenzie Eddy's boring hook can make you fall asleep at the cockpit. Luckily Curren$y regains his footing with tracks like the Monsta Beatz composition "Fashionably Late", "A Gee", and his JETS conrads , Young Roddy and Trademark make two appearances on "Flight Briefing" and "Hold On". The former finds Curren$y boasting , " Yo bitch want that vitamin D/ She lookin desperate/ Bullshit convo/ 5 minutes invested / Now she butt-naked/ Lying to you via text message". PTII doesn't do much to change the foundation its predecessor left, but more like build on it it. While we wish Curren$y would try new ways to talk his fly guy bravado, still, you can't help but love the fact that the kid from N.O.'s drive is to remain higher than 30,000 feet above the clouds. JETS...fool!
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