{"id":608098,"date":"2026-04-15T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:50:08","slug":"bossman-dlow-chicken-talkin-bastard-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/608098\/","title":{"rendered":"Bossman Dlow: Chicken Talkin Bastard Album Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicken Talkin Bastard is the fourth standalone Bossman Dlow<\/a> mixtape and yet here\u2019s all I know about him so far: He doesn\u2019t seem to have ever heard of a wallet, so he carries money around in large stacks of bills that look to weigh as much as a newborn baby; he spends so much time in VIP sections of strip clubs that he probably gets his packages delivered there; he might be the second-most dangerous driver in Florida, behind Tiger Woods. With catchphrases like a 20th-century sitcom star, he churns out over-the-top motivation trap with so little autobiographical detail that I don\u2019t even think I can picture him doing any normal human activity. Try real hard: Can you imagine Bossman Dlow walking his dog or visiting his grandmother? It\u2019s a severe lack of depth that would be a bigger deal if he wasn\u2019t so good at his old-fashioned brand of uncomplicated radio hits.<\/p>\n

Chicken Talkin Bastard works because of the way Dlow folds elements of vintage Florida freak-rap, Louisiana baller music, and Atlanta extravagance into his unserious, iced-out fantasies of shutting down the club. \u201cMotion Party\u201d doesn\u2019t overthink its flip of Khia\u2019s twerk anthem \u201cMy Neck, My Back\u201d\u2014it simply turns it into another twerk anthem, just with Dlow\u2019s conversational touch: \u201cWhat\u2019s your name? Bae, you know you some fine shit.\u201d The rollicking call-and-response hook of \u201cLet\u2019s Go Get Em\u201d shakes off the menace of the No Limit original<\/a> to become a lot goofier and dancier. If it\u2019s not the next College GameDay theme song, someone isn\u2019t doing their job right. He slows it down with the churchly bounce of \u201cAct Like Money,\u201d which sounds like it\u2019s about to be one of those heartfelt rags-to-riches T.I.<\/a> joints, but Dlow will be Dlow: \u201cShe so blessed, \u2019fore I eat it, gotta say my grace.\u201d He never breaks character, like if the Terminator were reprogrammed to shop at Neiman Marcus.<\/p>\n

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The little bit of context added by diving into his musical upbringing goes a long way. Still, it\u2019s a persona that\u2019s easier to connect with on a single-by-single basis rather than over the course of an entire mixtape. Outside of the highlights, as strong as they are, a big chunk of Chicken Talkin Bastard is forgettable fluff that mostly exists to bring more attention to those singles. There\u2019s no reason to care about Dlow trying out new TikTok lingo (\u201cTendernism\u201d) or getting punchlines off with DaBaby<\/a> (\u201cGoddess\u201d) or reviving Trey Songz for an uncomfortably flirtatious duet that just comes across creepy because Trey Songz is involved<\/a> (\u201cYou So Pressure\u201d). Listen to song after song and his funny quirks turn repetitive, with an overreliance on bass-heavy Detroit-meets-Memphis Young & Turnt 2 type beats that sound straight off the CMG assembly line.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re bumping a Bossman Dlow album front-to-back, though, you are a goddamn sicko. You\u2019re meant to absorb Chicken Talkin Bastard through osmosis\u2014hearing the latest hit on your local radio station every morning as the DJ promotes their club appearance, hearing another track in the background while scrolling TikTok or sitting in the barber\u2019s chair. Then, by the time you actually hit up a club, you know all the words without trying and have little lines that only mean something to you. For me, it would be how he grunts, \u201cMy pockets just a little more heavier\u201d over the nostalgic Atlanta trap horns of \u201cFlood,\u201d or when he mentions that he was on the Titanic on \u201cIceberg,\u201d because I like to imagine what Bossman Dlow would have been doing on the Titanic. Or possibly all of \u201cHow I\u2019m Livin,\u201d his version of one of those Cash Money flex-a-thons where he talks about his Louis Vuitton scarf and diamond-dancing timepiece like they\u2019re magical trinkets he found in a lost tomb. It\u2019s hard being an it-isn\u2019t-that-deep radio rapper in an era where radio doesn\u2019t matter as much as it used to, but Bossman Dlow is making it work like nobody else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicken Talkin Bastard is the fourth standalone Bossman Dlow mixtape and yet here\u2019s all I know about him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12327,64,63,134,136,1672],"class_list":{"0":"post-608098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-albums","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}