Lil' Flip
The Leprechaun (Original Version)
Album · Hip-Hop/Rap · 2000
Released in 2000, Lil’ Flip’s breakout record created a blueprint of neck-snapping, Southern-fried Houston rap for his peers to study. The album’s cartoonish artwork turns out to be a wicked red herring: On tracks like the lean, mean and bass-heavy “My Block”, the sunny cruising anthem “Everyday” and the grubby, drum-filled “I Can Do Dat”, a teenage Flip proves he isn’t playing around as he spits rhymes with so much melody that he makes everything sound like a hook.