Rapper Rip has high hopes
The first song that greets visitors to the Myspace site of 24-year-old rapper, entrepreneur and Waukegan native Rip, aka Joshua Mallett, is a single from his mixtape "Local Celebrity" which was released in December.
The song is "Shut That S*** Down," a duet with rapper Too Bogus. Its introduction samples a local newscast about the spread of gang activity to the suburbs, particularly into Waukegan.
The song's style will be familiar to anyone familiar with rap music. A skittering high hat joins ominous, pulsing throbs to provide a threatening backdrop to cautionary lyrics about just why one shouldn't stir up trouble with the song's street-educated purveyors.
A verb, not a phrase
It's gangsta rap, though Rip, whose name is pronounced like the verb "to rip," not "R. …
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