Big Flock's The Great Depression: A Review

DMV rapper, Big Flock, recently left fans distraught after he gets caught up yet again in some legal troubles. But that didn’t stop him from keeping his promise to his loyal fans and dropping his latest album, “The Great Depression”.  Big Flock has picked up a lot of steam since his last release out the can and is since inching his way to the top of the DMV rap scene. In the last year, DMV rap culture has began to shift from everyone being on their own grind to “hey, let’s get this money together”. The area has been blessed with the DMV’s best beginning to collaborate on tracks, similar to the ATL rap movement. Flock himself has kept the streets fed with mixtapes like “Glockism”, “Kill Me Now”, and “Mafia Ties” a collab tape with DDB, another DMV rap group creating waves.

On this album, Big flock shows his growth substance wise. Not just constantly rapping about the trap life, he gives the fans something they can really feel with his words. He tells fans via twitter that you’re going to really feel his pain on this tape and it’s his best work yet. The title comes from Flocks real struggles. He references dealing with depression, trying to stay out of trouble, and losing his brother, lil Chris among other things. Flock also got some out of town assistance from popular rappers Hoodrich Pablo Juan and even more notably 21 Savage. It seems flock is trying to broaden his horizons and expand his music past the DMV. And it looks like he was in the right direction with all the shows and school appearances.

Flocks growth and pain is heard throughout the tape but music wise, “Sonny” is still my favorite project. Now I feel like his flow is more stagnant and his bars are somewhat repetitive. As for the production on the tape it was ok but I was expecting the “turn up” songs on the tape to be on repeat for me. For me I don’t think the tape will hold a lot of replay value aside from a few songs but I still give the tape a 7.2/10

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