Bone Apple Teeth (mixtape)

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Bone Apple Teeth
Mixtape by
ReleasedDecember 10, 2017 (2017-12-10)
Recorded2017
Studio
  • Mobtown Studios
  • FLYZONE
Genre
Length37:37

Bone Apple Teeth is a mixtape by American hip hop artist Flying Thunder, released on December 10, 2017 via DatPiff.com. The mixtape consists mostly of freestyles, with a few remixes and covers of well-known tracks. It was recorded in five sessions at two studios in the Baltimore area, within the space of twenty days. During this time, Flying Thunder was actively training and competing for the Baltimore Hawks. The mixtape is best known for the surprise hit "Gibson's Story", a reworking of the Slick Rick classic, "Children's Story".

Background

Flying Thunder had not originally set out to record a mixtape, intending primarily to record a single track, largely as a tongue-in-cheek response to the media furore surrounding his then-Hawks teammate Carmel Gibson. After recording Gibson's Story, friends encouraged him to do more, and they put together a whole mixtape. Inspired by conversations with his grandmother, Lucille (who provided the intro and outro, as well as featuring via recording on three other tracks) and his uncles, Flying Thunder wrote the album around a combination of folk tales, cooking analogies and Five Percenter ideals. The name for the mixtape came as a result of a joke, when a friend said he had "cooked up some good shit", before uttering the malapropism "bone apple teeth" (bon appétit) in reference to Flying Thunder's Acadian heritage.

Songs

The first track on the mixtape, "Kitchen Tales" is a re-telling of three stories heard by a young Flying Thunder while sitting in his grandmother's kitchen. They are variations on folk tales, with each one demonstrating the wisdom of a Creole proverb. Interspersing each story is a short exchange between Flying Thunder and his grandmother, in which she utters the related proverb.

"Caw Caw Motherfucker" is a hype song written for the Baltimore Hawks of the NSFL, appropriating an "unofficial club motto" – coined by Delacour himself. The track would later be re-recorded as a radio-friendly track, and played at The Aviary on game days from time to time.

"Storms" is a reference to his stage name, and mostly concerns itself with metaphors to describe Flying Thunder's determination to succeed and anger at being underestimated. He actually predicts his future successes in the NSFL on the track, when he compares the applause at his Hall of Fame inauguration with thunder.

The next three tracks are Five-Percent Nation inspired, with "Wizdum" a short track in which he speaks directly to his then-two-year-old daughter, Sophia (whose name means wisdom). The track outlines some common mistakes young people make, and gives precautionary instruction to avoid them. Its length is deliberate, as 1-2-3 in Supreme Mathematics represents "knowledge, wisdom and understanding". It is followed by an interlude in which Flying Thunder and Sophia "converse" in the studio. After that, the track "U.N.C.L.E." – standing for "(the) Universe Now Sees Love (and) Equality" using the Supreme Alphabet – paints a picture of a better world for his niece and nephew, before telling them to go to bed. "Gibson's Story" then starts out as if Flying Thunder is telling his niece and nephew a bedtime story.

The track "Three-Three-Seven" is an ode to his hometown of Lafayette, referencing the city's area code. It is followed by an interlude, "Hugeaux", in which Flying Thunder briefly thanks his high school coach, Phillipe Hugo, and his coach at college, Les Miles, for the impact both made on his career trajectory.

"Keijun Kaiseki" is a play on words, referencing traditional high-level Japanese cuisine, as well as his own heritage ("keijun" being an approximation of the transliteration of Cajun into Japanese). In this track, Flying Thunder ponders why Cajun cuisine is not considered "fancy", and whether attitudes would change if it was served differently, like a kaiseki. In the final verse, he imagines a world in which the pinnacle of haute-cuisine is his grandmother's cooking, before sampling her voice calling him to the table at the end.

"Five Blue Crabs" is a story about two gangs coming together over good food. While not explicitly mentioned, it is fairly clear that the two gangs referenced are the Crips and Bloods, as noted by the title – blue is the colour of the crips, who are also referred to as "crabs" by their rivals; while five is a symbol of the bloods, and blue crabs turn red (the bloods' colour) when cooked.

The interlude "Jasmine" is dedicated to Flying Thunder's wife, who he met in high school, and is followed by a shortened vocal remix of Will Smith's "Potnas", title "Potna" – referring to Jasmine.

The final track is "Pumpkin Pi", deliberately measured to be three minutes and fourteen seconds long (3:14) and featuring Flying Thunder's grandmother Lucille again, reading out recipe instructions to make pumpkin pie. The track itself is a rapped version of those instructions, with a focus on numeric references. It is followed by another skit from Lucille, which serves as the outro to the mixtape.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Lucille (Intro)" (skit)
  • Lucille Delacour
  • Antoine Delacour
0:37
2."Kitchen Tales" (featuring Lucille)
  • L. Delacour
  • A. Delacour
5:09
3."Caw Caw Motherfucker"A. Delacour3:51
4."Storms"A. Delacour2:43
5."Wizdum"A. Delacour1:23
6."Sophia" (interlude)A. Delacour0:51
7."U.N.C.L.E."A. Delacour2:33
8."Gibson's Story"
4:02
9."Three-Three-Seven"A. Delacour3:37
10."Hugeaux" (interlude)A. Delacour0:57
11."Keijun Kaiseki"A. Delacour2:39
12."Five Blue Crabs"A. Delacour2:58
13."Jasmine" (interlude)A. Delacour0:42
14."Potna" (featuring Jasmine)A. Delacour1:44
15."Pumpkin Pi" (featuring Lucille)
  • L. Delacour
  • A. Delacour
4:48
16."Lucille (Outro)"
  • L. Delacour
  • A. Delacour
0:37
Total length:37:37


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