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| Mack 10 Presents- Da Hood: This isn't really a Mack 10 solo album, it's more of a compliation album as his Hoo Bangin crew is featured on every track with Mack himself. This album came outta nowhere. This album is straight Westcoast with hard gangsta beats. Even tho Mack 10 signed with Cash Money and went down south, he never forgot where his foundation is and that is straight reprezentin the Westcoast!! Tight songs include: "Welcome To The Hood", "Hittin Switches", and "LA Fo Ya". Technic really impressed me on this one and I am really anticipating his solo joint. Dope album....pick this one up for sure. 8.25 OUT OF 10 |
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| Onyx- Bacdafucup Part II: What a reunion by Onyx. I have Fredro Starr's 'Firestarr' and Sticky Fingaz' '[Black Trash]: The Autobiography Of Kirk Jones' and they are incredible. I heard 93' "Slam" and 02' "Slam Harder" they have matured. My favorite tracks are "Slam Harder", "Bang 2 Dis", and "Onyx Is Back". There's a track for the ladies "Gangsta" which is produced hardcore but if you hear it they are praising the women that they are in love with. "Feel Me" was recorded on 9/11 and Onyx talk about struggles they go through. "Hood Beef" is quite gangsta and "Wet The Club" will get you hyped up for anything. It will take a few listens to get into the production and the lyrics, but it is a very solid album. 7.75 OUT OF 10 |
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| E-40- Grit & Grind: Often imitated but never beaten in the rap slangin' stakes, E40 drops GRIT & GRIND, his third major-label album. which continues his innovative tradition of freestyle rapping (he's also compiling a dictionary that'll help us decipher what he's talking about). The West Coast Bay Area rapper is partnered here with a plethora of guests, including Afroman, Eight-Ball, Kokane, and Peet The Sneek, in a roller-coaster of an album that takes us from autobiography on "Da Bay" to drink recipes on the Funkadelic-influenced "7 Much," and is peppered along the way with glimpses of E's fabulous West Coast lifestyle. Less gangsta than playa, E40's content to be driving along in his tricked-out SUV, inventing rhymes and words to confound the outside world and dealing on the side to earn a little cash. There's little talk of guns and not much violence on GRIT & GRIND--more typical is "Mustard and Mayonnaise," a run-down of luxury items West Coast rappers can't afford to be without. This, combined with E40's new, improved vocal stylings ("I slowed down my spit," he says) make this good-humored slice of life go down nice and easy. 8.5 OUT OF 10 |