By Ayomide Tayo
Album: Pukie The Great E.P
Artiste: Pucado
Producers: Leriq, DJ Bally
Guest Appearances: Ill Bliss, Kamar, Phyno
Label: Aristokrat Records/960 Music Group (2014)
Duration: 36 Minutes
Next up after Burna Boy comes the rapper Pucado, straight from Aristokrat’s conveyor belt. Pucado is a rapper with a quirky flow who flirts with the Igbo language.
The man who turned Burna Boy into a mainstream success, Leriq, helms Pucado’s EP, ‘Pukie The Great’. If you are familiar with the prolific producer’s work then you would know that the sound structure of Pucado’s EP is primarily made up of dreamy and dark synths.
An EP isn’t really sufficient to rate an artiste’s true potential. At best it serves as a snap shot of what the act might be able to offer if all things turn out well. On this project, Pucado primarily sticks to making ‘turn up’ music and twerk tracks.
On ‘Pukie The Great’, Pucado chants his royal nickname on the hook, which creates an energy that can be found in mosh pits. Aware of his newcomer status in the game he spits: ‘They be like who be that? /holding it down like a coup d’état’’.
Confident in his ability to impress you, Pukie is really impressive. On ‘I’m Coolin’, he turns it up when on the first verse he spits: ‘I’m cooler than an Eskimo nigga/I swear the game is about to grow bigger’ on Leriq’s dream like/trace synths’.
On the introductory track, Ill Bliss acts the role of a big brother advising this new young gun how to make it in the industry.
Leriq’s crazy and frantic snares on Pucado’s single ‘Big, Better, Best’ make it an unusual and dope twerk song. Pukie saves his quirky flows on his rump shaker songs, which can also be heard on his schizophrenic lusty track ‘Ukwu nka’.
Apart from his confidence, Pucado ensures he doesn’t bore you with wordplays and punchlines like many Nigerian rappers love to do now. His bars are easy and straight.
Besides turn up tracks and twerk songs, Pucado shows us a glimpse of what he is capable of on an album level on his conceptual tracks ‘Impostor’ featuring Kamar and ‘Vanity’.
On the ultra sexy ‘Impostor’, Pukie’s easy and graphic bars come out. ‘Legs go east, legs go west/I slide in and go south,’ he raps on the sex inducing song. Kamar’s smooth hook is the icing on the cake on this standout track. With ‘Vanity’, Pucado showcases his storytelling ability as he chronicles a ‘take life easy’ tale.
Pucado is unique and talented to mark his own lane in the game. Is he great? We will have to see about that. Is he good? There is no question about that.
Rating-3.5
