ATL Mall Cop in retrospect

     A while back, an Atlanta mall security officer took the media by storm, after he delivered his own
 brand of justice during his patrols.

    While this certainly isn't a new story (one in which you can read here), I want to bring it up, because I want you all to see the kinds of things that this security officer had to put up with on an almost daily basis.

     I want you to ask yourselves if you were in his position what would you do? Do you think he went too far?

     Keep in mind these videos have very strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Carolina Dirty gets down for her crown

       Remember back when you could buy a rap album and listen to it all the way through. Remember the head nodding euphoria that you entered into when the beat dropped on the first song? Remember how you kept rewinding the song back to the favorite part of the artist's verse so you could  memorize it and recite it over and over again?

     Sadly in the new age of Hip Pop, those days have long gone. It gets even tougher when you start talking about the female artists, who seem to be more like pop star divas, than fierce emcees that offer up quotable lyrics.

     But luckily that's not the case with Carolina Dirty, a S.C. native, who just released an EP titled New Girl in Town from HiP Nott Records, a digital only label founded in 2009 by hip hop blogger Kevin Nottingham. The EP is a sampling of her upcoming album titled STILLATIT/ Still At it.

      And let me just say this - Carolina Dirty quite simply does in six tracks, what most emcees in the Hip Pop era have yet to do in a whole album ... and that is produce strong quality head nodding rhymes that capture the listener's attention.

     Teaming up with Amri, and her brother Spectac (who The O.A.W. Report has spoken with in the past), Carolina Dirty brings a raw edge to the music with rhymes that are precise and well crafted.

     Whether it's to Amri's smooth laid back beat of  Mic Check to the nostalgic New Girl, which has a sick sample from the old Alice TV show (how does Amiri come up with this stuff), Carolina Dirty delivers and has you panting and begging for more.

     On 22:16, produced by Troy, the Carolina native comes at the mic with velocity and sheer honesty when she belts out - Born in a field of dirt/ use to spit lyrics just to shield my hurt/ use to wear baggy jeans couldn't feel a skirt.How humble and how honest is that?

  
 Here's hoping things work out and that Carolina Dirty stays in town. Check below for the EP. I highly recommend it. Can't wait for the full LP.