June 21, 2017

Joyner Lucas "508-507-2209" (Mixtape)


This is the fourth solo mixtape from Joyner Lucas, including his "Listen 2 Me" mixtape released as Future Joyner back in 2011. With the mixtapes release on Atlantic Records, this is considered his commercial debut and was preceded by four singles. Joyner says, "This project took two years in the making, there's a lot of records that I scrapped, start over, scrapped, start over. There's records that I've made from the very beginning two years ago that I still kept on the project now. So there's a lot of old mixed with new but it's all cohesive." The mixtape features production by Boi-1da, Frank Dukes, Statik Selektah, Decap, and a wild feature from Mystikal. It's been a minute since my last post about Joyner Lucas, but if you go back, I said when the timing was right, it'd all connect for him. That deal with Atlantic Records is a great look - financially - but we'll see how it works creatively as they are still in the phase of creating his buzz for sales. I think his mentality is too independent for a major, and he already knows how to work his own marketing, so will it be a good fit? Time will tell on that too. Meantime, I wish him much continued success! Listen below...