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Monday, May 5, 2025

"4eva Is A Mighty Long Time" for this double album

Listening to a Big K.R.I.T album you can expect two things: K.R.I.T producing the album and him rapping in his thick Mississippi accent. However, he decided to use his two-disc double album, "4eva Is A Mighty Long time" to present his two unique personalities, using other producers to help him out.

The first disc is the Big K.R.I.T section of the album which includes banging beats, witty lyrics and strong deliveries from featured artists.

In the first section's standout song, “Big Bank,” K.R.I.T and T.I describe their lavish lifestyles. From Big K.R.I.T's braggadocious lyrics like “Spent more on J’s than the steak and shrimp/Than mo’ gon’ make in they life." T.I. then comes to outdo K.R.I.T when he mentions “Make sure it multiply that all I’m worried about” and “Stay into that broke shit ain’t in my plan.” Then he goes into making sure that his family feeds off of his success while still bragging about his riches. This song was produced by the artist himself who provided a south-trunk knocking vibe to this song. K.R.I.T is also on the hook where he keeps on mentioning “I got shining on re-run," which, in simpler terms, means he money on his mind like other creators mention in their songs. 

K.R.I.T manages to slow the tempo down with his song “1999," paying homage the rapper Juvenile. Lloyd starts with the popular verse “Girl, you working with ass/Yeah, you're bad/Yeah, make a n**** spend his cash" before he proceeds to talk about his sexual desires. K.R.I.T then goes on and talks about how bad this girl is. He says that “Type to bust it open wide and have me close down the mall” and “She need to bow for that ass just to celebrate it.” With Lloyd and K.R.I.T's lyrics layered over an R&B rhythm circa 2005, the sound plays tribute to Juvenile's 1988 "Back that ass up" before transitioning into honoring another artist in the next song. 

“Ride with Me" samples legendary artist Pimp C’s popular song. Rapper Bun B, who formed hip-hop duo Underground Kings with Pimp C, and K.R.I.T reminisce about the Pimpalation creator, who died in 2008. From the start, Bun B makes the track's purpose clear, saying: “Say, R.I.P to Pimp C/He was the King of The South/If you hating on that/You need to shut your f*****g mouth.” Then he starts bragging about how he is a Triple OG by having a clean set of rims for his fancy foreign car. K.R.I.T then decides to add Pimp C’s chorus from his song “Knocking Doorz Down.” The artist then starts to talk about how he grew up listening to UGK (Pimp C and Bun B), inspiring him for some of his 2012 mixtape “4eva N a Day." 

Big K.R.I.T then goes into the song called, “Get Up 2 Come Down,” which talks the artist struggles in the home town. Cee Lo then comes on this songs and raps “ I know right” but he delivered really well on this track. He uses a Pimp C flow to explain his struggle past on how he use to “rob people for their starter jackets and shoes. The two artist stories were meshed together really like a documentary.

After this part of the album K.R.I.T decides to change the whole tone in this album with second part in this album. Instead of using his rapper name he goes with his real name Justin Scott. The opening starts with this soulful churchy vibe that was produced by DJ Khali. Then there is just choir referencing the albums name “4eva is mighty long time."

Scott then keeps getting this messages about going mainstream and making songs with R&B artitst. Then he says “Alright I’ll do it damn” then proceeds to the make the song mixed messages which talks about the messages this come up in his recent albums. He also has arguments in his head like “I got me a lover but I want to cheat” and “Don’t wanna be here, but I’m too scared to leave. Supah Mario produced this monotone track like he did in previous albums such as Drake’s “More Life.”

Then the song “Keep the Devil Off” comes barging in with its layered church organ hip-hop beat. He then talks about he needs to keep away form negativity. He then goes into the southern black quotes like “Bout as bright as the daylight” and he also puts “well” after every bar he spits like people at church do with preachers . The track then ends with the beat riding out like a southern black gospel song.

“4eva is a mighty long time” never seems to become overwhelming. Each track had it’s own beat, meaning, and tone. Big K.R.I.T put together project that you can bump anywhere form the gym to even the library with headphones of course. This album will definitely be in rotation 4eva.

5/5