Review: Metro Zu – Mink Rug
Thursday, February 9th, 2012Metro Zu – Mink Rug (2012) [Self-Released] // Grade: B
The first thing I noticed about Florida group Metro Zu’s newest mixtape Mink Rug is it’s cover. Two chicks making out something fierce. It’s pretty hard not to notice that. And like the cover suggests, this is a mixtape full of sex raps. No, not every song on Mink Rug is about sex, just most. And, truthfully that’s not a bad thing in the slightest given the talent behind it and the fact that’s going through the Raider Klan’s nostalgic/futuristic filter.
Metro Zu’s two emcees Ruben Slikk and Lofty are super witty, creative and hilarious guys so they pull off the “dirty rap” thing great. Their swag is awesome because you can really hear the fun the dudes are having rapping. The third member of Metro Zu is the producer Mr. B whose beats are pretty diverse from track to track. Some are very solid southern trap beats, some are soulful more “hip hop” and some are straight electro dance jams.
An example of the varying sounds on this mixtape happens right away in the difference between track one and two. The tape opens with one of the tape’s most trap-sounding songs “Sell Ma Ho” which sounds almost like a Future song minus the autotune. It has the pretty funny nonsensical hook “First thing first Imma sell my ho…second thing first: Imma sell my ho.” I don’t’ know exactly why I find that funny. I think it’s because they say “Second thing first.”
The next song is the title track (and probably the mixtape’s best song) “Mink Rug” produced by freebase and featuring SpaceGhostPurrp. The “Mink Rug” beat is like a throwback to oldschool UGK. The hook/concept of the song is ridiculous just like most of this tape’s tracks “Bitch, sit on my mink.” What I see is a 70s porn going down. The hilarious porn imagery Metro Zu and SGP conjure up of having sex party with “four bad bitches” on a mink Rug is great. Plus, the song is phonky as hell.
Later in the tape we get “RobotSlorBetch” which is like the sort of track LMFAO would make if they weren’t solely trying to court 14 year olds. It’s a pretty goofy electro party song, but unlike LMFAO it isn’t obnoxious in trying to be a bar mitzvah hit. Also: One of the first lines of the song is “this goes out to my Android 18s.” I’m a Dragonball Z fan, we’ll leave it at that.
The tape’s last track “C.O.D” is another track that walks the line between being humerous and serious and again pulls it off really well. With a title referencing Call of Duty and a chaotic epic, swirling orchestra beat featuring gunshot noises, I would expect this to be a song about shooting people. But nope. The hook is “Cocked back, target locked I’m bust to bust a nut up on her crotch.” So, I guess it is about shooting per say…
Mink Rug is mostly fun raps and cool beats. But, to me, that’s good hip hop and a bit of a lost art form in the scene. I’m sure Uncle Luke would be very proud to see these guys carrying his torch for Florida.






















