Review of Ghetto Coyote’s
Apocalypse Bounce

 In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Uptown New Orleans has found its next Orpheus.  Not since the questionable imprisonment of the 12^th Ward’s own Mystikal has a voice emerged that so speaks the truth of the 504.  Backed by the minimal, precision beats of DJ Scoob, IHOJ recording artist Ghetto Coyote’s album, Apocalypse Bounce, is destined to be a classic, chronicling the terrors following Hurricane Katrina, as well as the hopes she left in her passing.

At first listen, it seems that Ghetto Coyote is treading familiar ground, nostalgically describing the Hood Rich lifestyle of a player in the Uptown rap game, as in “Back in Days”:

 Once again I am a-stunnin’ and a-shinin’,
them De La Salle girls, yeah they know just where to buy it,
they all callin’ the Coyote ‘cause he got that pretty white,
and their daddies don’t know that they be spendin’ the night
with a Freret street wohdi like that Ghetto Coyote,
and they be cryin’ to end up that nigga’s baby mommy.

He continues, passing through a catalogue of girls from a local Catholic high school:

Abbey, and Ellen,
Theresa, Emma, and Kim,
Jennifer and that friend of hers,
and Alisha, with that bright skin. 

Later, in “Katrina Nastee,” a duet with fellow IHOJ recording artist, Deb-U-Tante,  he describes a typical encounter ‘up in the club’ that ends in a case of coitus interruptus.  G.C. hits the whole tragedy of New Orleans, finding a metaphor in the lost opportunity of a one-night stand.  At the end of a long night of ballin’, G.C. runs into one of his girls, played by Deb-U-Tante.  After the obligatory references to Hennessy and hood dreams, he’s ready to turn her, but she tells him she can’t take it back to the crib.  Belting out the chorus, Deb-U-Tante proves she is an up and coming Diva, for real: 

No she coming, she coming,
that nasty bitch you roll with is coming,
that nasty bitch, that nasty bitch,
so you can leave Deb-U-Tante alone,
‘cause she don’t play no seconds, no. 

Deb-U-Tante is definitely no joke; she’s savvy enough to know G.C.’s a playa, for real.  She’s holding off college for a thug that pays figures.  At first it doesn’t look like he’ll be able to pull her, But G.C. quickly flips the script:

She say my bitch is coming and you better watch out,
then I quick flash the dick, show her what it’s all about,
but a solja like Coyote likes to watch a bitch pout,
lips like a fish, ‘cause she wants it in her mouth.
So we go out back, AC cranked in the whip,
and my diamonds is shining and a rubber do the trick,
but then the Blackberry beeps tryin ta tell me some shit,
Big Teeze “sayin’ get yo’ ass to Houston, son,
yo get yo’ ass to Houston”

 The final track of Apocalypse Bounce, “We Gon’ Shine Again (UPT),”  is a full-on Dirty South masterpiece.  DJ Scoob does the unthinkable, and rips the opening riff of The Scorpions “Here I Am (Rock You Like a Hurricane),” from their 1984’s Love at First Sting, to form the backbone of the song, then takes it on out with that whistling part from “Winds of Change.”  The chorus is anthemic and infectious, and speaks a message of hope the Dirty South.

Now we shinin’ again, rims spinnin’ again,
we rollin’ again, steady ballin’ again,
big times again, and we never gonna be wet again,
never again, never again, never again. 

Indeed, if Ghetto Coyote keeps dropping albums like this, he’s got nothing to worry about.