Give it up for Z-Ro: off his Melting The Crown album, Miss My Mama cannot go unnoticed

Give it up for Z-Ro: off his Melting The Crown album, Miss My Mama cannot go unnoticed The intro for this song is heartbreaking:

'This goes out to the ladies that gave us life And errbody that lost a lady that gave them life My black queen, I miss you, I luv you, baby'

Z-Ro goes through the ordeal of reminiscing his mother's death, how he stumbled upon a room full of people he didn't know, aligned for the funeral. The track's all shifty, as in the next verse you have Z-Ro recollecting father - son issues, how his pops was slowly passing of cancer, refusing to see his son and trying to endure on his own. When we say shifty, we mean that perspectives often change in the song: you have Z-Ro telling his ordeal, then all of a sudden, you have his son (or A son), telling how his moms died when he was so young, and then you shift back to Z-Ro. but we can understand all that! Losing someone is a terribly confusing event. We think that was what the man wanted conveyed through his song. That no matter how divergent we may be on the streets, in a house filled with people in black attire we're all convergent. The same gravel will cover my body, as it will another's body, or so Plato said.

Something we gotta notice on this track, this is really rap. As mellow as it may seem, it takes after the severity of the subject at hand. You cannot talk lightly about death. But there are other songs on Z-Ro's new album, Melting The Crown, that aren't rap. Actually, this song and the Intro, these are almost the only ones in which he actually raps. The others are just this mixture of rap motifs (the "I wish somebody WOULD try me" attitude, guns, packs, satchels, the pen, the popo) and an R&B voice. And that's understandable too. That's Z-Ro's style. Back in the day (he's 36 now), rap was really melodic, and very direct. No metaphors, not so much slang, a couple of muhfuckas here and there, but that's it. Rappers (except maybe Pac and Big) sung. They rarely talked, as it is ascertained in contemporary rap. That being said, in order to feel this album, you gotta be ready to hear some "sung" rap tunes. Z-Ro's not gonna spit it fo' ya. Nah-ah! Enjoy, bleaches!