Young Scooter’s latest mixtape “Street Lottery 2” is for the streets. Recruiting the likes of Camron, Future, Chief Keef, OJ Da Juiceman, and Wiz Khalifa there are no shortage of gun and drug references. Cocaine is a topic revisited on almost every track. From the processing phases all the way through distribution. While Young Scooter may never win anyone’s “lyricist of the year” award he knows his lane and doesn’t deviate far from it. Serving it up for the D-boys Scooter is way more Gucci Mane than Pusha T.
While the project is sonically appealing, it fails to make you want to press replay. The lack of depth and creativity hinder the project. There are however bright spots and some of Scooters best moments happen when he goes it alone. “Count Jug” finds the rapper spitting knowledge, “Put ya bond money up first/anything can happen prepare yaself for the worst”. “Straight Been” serves an ode to the people who have been down since day one. Through all of its shortcomings “Street Lottery 2” serves as a quick course in “Drug Dealing 101”.
Aaron “Uncanny” Phillips