A video from The Package, the album Buckshot released through Duck Down in July twelve tracks, thirty minutes, one producer. BDI Thug is credited on every single song, and he is credited again here, which is the kind of consistency that independent rap used to take for granted and now rarely bothers with. The track is the third on the record and runs 2:35; the video, directed by Sun Bronx, goes 2:43. Buckshot opens by placing himself: "You might have seen me with Tupac in two spots / or I might have been with Biggie on the rooftop." It is a claim about where he was standing rather than about who he knew, and the rest of the verse works the same way he lists what has changed around him ("times change, rhymes change, minds change, design change") and then says what has not. The hook is four lines repeated: "I'mma get mine. Better get yours. I'm breaking them all." That is not a threat, it is a work ethic, and it is the most Boot Camp sentence imaginable. He has described the album as the soundtrack to a short film about the future of Brooklyn, and it comes through Duck Down the label he helped build and has kept running as independent infrastructure across several different eras of the business. There is one guest on the whole record, General Steele on "Night Stress," which tells you the album is not a summit. It is one man, one producer, and thirty minutes, pressed on vinyl, CD and cassette.
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