Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes, Topp Dogg Hill & Skyhigh Recordz brings us E-Skillz: ‘Mr.Nobody’ Mixtape, mixed by DJ Ykcor. As usual with a Coast 2 Coast Mixtape DJ the quality is on point and again DJ Ykcor makes sure of that with the production bein as good as its gonna get. The majority of the tracks are straight but a couple don’t feel like they on the same level with both lyrics AND production. The first two tracks after the intro might be some of E-Skillz’ best and he really had me goin ‘this tape is about to be crazy.’ Track 3 had some features on it including Topp Dogg Hill’s Whitefolkz with an artist named I, this was probably the most lyrical track on the mixtape and it would be hard to go against that. Skillz held his own on that and from this freestyle alone I became a supporter, given the right circumstances this dude is nasty.. Track 4 got into a semi-rock sounding beat that was totally different from the previous two tracks. It wouldn’t be a radio track so I take it as him checkin his flexibility on tracks and I don’t think this was the right direction to go in. ‘Stayin in your lane’ can sometimes be very real.. You could imagine 50cent singin and he could pull it off but Jay-Z singin would prob be the end of his career. The lyrical content was still there and Skillz wasn’t singin but his approach seemed wrong cuz the track just didn’t feel right. He moved away from it and from that point on the tape redeemed itself.


When I got to track 11 “Mad At The Kid”, I gotta say I never heard any beat like that before but I don’t think every rappers contribution to the track was as good as it coulda been. For such a unique n gutta soundin beat I was expectin some awe inspirin shit, I didn’t get that but the track flowed well regardless. Skillz follows the right procedure on the rest of the tape by showin diversity and makin sure that nothing sounds the same with songs like track 15 ‘I keep’ that stands out as soon as its heard.. As quick as it got into grimey shit on track 11, track 21 “Day to Day” mellows it down into a ‘reminisce on things’ humble type flow. It was strong enough to make you sit there and zone out for a sec but lyrical enough for you to see that he could spit. “Day to Day” was one of the best on the tape and still shows that hes versatile enough to adapt to the mood of a track without fuckin up his character. “I might be Mr.Nobody right now… But you gonna get to know me.” At the end of the day you cant front on this quote.. alotta upcoming rappers are trash and they don’t even realize that. Then you got the ones that actually put out shit that could eventually be takin em places.. like this one