Deliveries After Dark - Popa Chubby

Advantages: DMX's RUFF RYDERS ANTHEM / superb lyrics, amazing DARK production, gritty flow - BITES!
Disadvantages: DMX's lyrics can be X-plicit and frightening for young children - SO WATCH OUT, GRRR!

...' delivering his BARKING lyrics in the process. I found his lyrics to be superb as his hardcore delivery in the video. However what really stimulated my HUNGER to buy one of DMX's albums was the classic single - STOP BEING GREEDY, that I first watched on MTV Base. Thus in June 2002, I ran to the HMV store like a mad dog in Oxford Street, to sniff out that particular DMX album that included this HOT single (i.e. as a music track). I eventually, found this track on DMX's album, 'IT'S DARK AND HELL IS HOT' and this is how I ended up buying this Hip Hop CD. I now focus my attention on what the HOT DOG (i.e. DMX) has to offer me on this album I bought. Exactly how HOT did I find the whole of DMX's album, in terms of the beats, lyrics, subject matter, skill and guest appearances. Well, to answer your question, I must descend into HELL and reveal... Read review

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Advantages: Skilled musicians...
Disadvantages: ...not great lyricists.

.... The chorus starts to grate after a while though, not least of all because of Hawkins’ rushed delivery. #5 – Love Is Only A Feeling Or, The Darkness Appear To Get Serious. The accompanying video features the band astride mountains. The song is similarly epic-sounding, with licks of Spanish guitar and a basic beat behind Hawkins lamenting the pointlessness of love, despite his better judgement. Not exactly a tear-jerker, especially with its awkwardly English English, but it beats another bloody Westlife ballad. #6 – Givin’ Up Absolute rubbish. The lyrics are uninspired (it’s about giving up drugs); the music is very basic (to put it into perspective, it sounds like a song cobbled together by a band formed at school. A year after they formed), and it’s got a lazy chorus. At least Hawkins’ vocals on the chorus have a more interesting... Read review

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Advantages: Well-crafted, unexplored song subjects
Disadvantages: Old school fans may not approve

...After the virtual disaster that was 'No Prayer for the Dying', Maiden went back to the drawing board. Little did anyone know at the time that Bruce Dickinson was unsettled. Despite his passionate delivery and enthusiastic stage shows, Dickinson felt confined by Maiden's subject matter and genre. After very heated exchanges, Dickinson left the band after the 'Fear of the Dark World Tour' and Maiden's second headlining of Donington. On this album, new boy guitarist Janick Gers contributes to the writing, and there is a much 'rockier' element, rather than grandiose metal, which Gers no doubt helped come out. Where 'No Prayer...' failed, 'Fear of the Dark' scored, with the group concentrating on writing mainly about the album's title, i.e. human weakness, fear, and reaction to circumstances. The effect was that, with the absence of myth... Read review

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