Bay Area rap music blew up last year. E-40’s “Tell Me When To Go” was a bonafide club anthem nationwide, while stunna shades and ghost riding crept into the least likely of suburbs and onto the unsuspecting radars of mainstream rap. But as “hyphy” became more commercialized it lost touch with the streets that created it, and no one has seemed more fed up by this fact than San Francisco’s Messy Marv. With his latest album, Draped Up & Chipped Out 2, Messy Marv fires back the “hyphy” with a blunt reminder of the uncut and R-rated foundation Bay Area rap – including “hyphy” – was built on.One cannot take back “hyphy” without the help of its undisputed creator: Mac Dre. Messy Marv wastes no time utilizing several of the late Dre’s baritone bars for an addicting hook to “My Life Like A Movie”. Mess’ disdain for the misrepresentation of Bay Area rap is undeniably felt as he lets everyone know “they got the Bay f***ed up with this funny ass music” and that “[he’s] seen that My Block s**t on MTV / That s**t was watered down, wait ’til they get a load of me”.Perhaps the best track of the album is “Bagg Up” which continues the theme listeners know: ‘forget what you’ve heard, it’s not all good’. Don’t be surprised when you hear Mess holler “everybody go dumb” because he’s referring to his next line which is describing “beating [someone] up ’til you hands get numb”. Messy Marv is not the only rapper to take shots at this commercialized “hyphy”. In fact the most direct doesn’t come from Mess at all, but on V-White & The Politician’s “How Bout That”. These two Bay veterans dissect the “hyphy movement” from a street perspective with a hook that could be substituted as a thesis for the album: “They say if I don’t ghost ride the whip they won’t like me / But I don’t wear stunna shades and hyphy / I’m gangster n***a, how ’bout that?! / I’m a gangster n***a, how ’bout that?!”Draped Up & Chipped Out 2 is chalk full of guest appearances from all over the country. Southern stars like Juvenile and Mike Jones drop verses for Mess as well as local rappers like B-Legit and Mistah F.A.B. But Mess is the unquestioned star of the album featured on more than half of the tracks and a noticeable drop off in energy on those he is absent from. Mess hits one out of the park with this compilation. There are some misses like Jessica Rabbit’s “Tongue Ring” – pretty much a list of everything that can be done with a tongue ring placed over music – but this is the exception to an otherwise solid piece of work. For everyone who is sick and tired of the same songs dedicated to “popping pills” or everybody and their grandmother uploading their videos of “ghostriding” to YouTube, Messy Marv’s Draped Up & Chipped Out 2 is an album definitely worth an hour of your time.