Babygrande
2008
Black Mask Black Gloves: The Ruga Edition (Explicit)
About This Album
Hell Rell has some points to make with Black Mask Black Gloves. First, he has a lot of cash (not only does his jumbo-faced, diamond-encrusted watch on the cover look expensive, but according to him, his birth certificate is a hundred dollar bill); second, he isn't afraid to maim or kill to get his money ("I have a million enemies, killed one in May, one in June"); and third, he is nicknamed Ruga, after the guns he uses to make his cash (his alias is shouted as a catch phrase proudly throughout every song). Now, while this may all sound very familiar, the key factor that sets Ruga apart from the vast amount of other rappers who brag about their street cred, ice, and ability to use a gat, is that he sounds wholly authentic when he boasts his credentials. He explains that if he were not a rapper he would be a crack kingpin, and if you analyze his imposing personality and his infatuation with drugs, violence, and making big money, and then consider that he spent two years in prison for drug charges, his backup occupation seems entirely feasible. "Realest Ni**a Doin' It" drives home the point that he's a genuine thug, and shows why hard-hitting has become synonymous with the name Hell Rell.
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