Advantages: Memorable Beats, Excellent Lyrics, Great Songs, Group Chemistry, No Bad Songs Disadvantages: Incredibly Overrated, A few weaker joints
...Pep Love. Their debut album 93 Til Infinity provides a much alternate view of west coast hip-hop compared to what their better-known peers were releasing to the public at the time. Instead of resorting to gangsta rap and all of that idiocy, we get a fresh and abstract style, which can easily be compared to The Pharcyde. Souls of Mischief are time-honored hip-hop veterans who should definitely be respected for putting together a dope album. Instead ... ...joints to be found on 93 Til Infinity. Right from the start, joints like "Let Em Know" immediately showcase the talent possessed by this Heiroglyphics camp. The saxophone sample and thumping bass provide a non-melodic, yet driving force for the beat which is gritty, yet cleaned up and crisp. This joint merely acts as an introduction to the Souls of Mischief, as all four get a turn on the microphone to shine, and that's just what they do. Dope rhymes ...
Advantages: Bangers throughout Disadvantages: Underrated
“Real Brothas” came as the debut release from the real-life brothers B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta, a Compton, LA pair associated with Eazy-E and his Ruthless Records label. This was their one and only album and finds them laying down some hardcore West Coast rap material. They brought this one in 1995, a few months after Eazy’s passing and so there is a dedication to him on here, in addition to the general Gangsta Rap work from out of South Central, which ... ...are known to do, as the two Crips come to do damage. 1. “Everyday Allday” They kick the thing off in a dramatic fashion by throwing down in a hard way with some material that you would expect to get from such n act as they jump on top of some groovy joints that seems to really work with their laid-back, yet impactful rhymes as they do things in their powerful ways and come through strong to show that they are here to do big things and (although they ...
Advantages: Great start Disadvantages: Loss of enagaing tracks towards the end
The Hip Hop super-group Slaughterhouse made their official debut when they released their self-entitled debut in 2009. Act consists of amongst the some of the biggest underground MCs from all around the US as you get Joe Budden (from Jersey City, New Jersey, Crooked I (from Long Beach, California), Joell Ortiz (from Brooklyn, New York and Royce Da 5’9” (from Detroit, Michigan) all bringing their talent together to make for a dominating force that ... ...with a sound that goes out to all the hotspots in the underground Hip Hop world. 1. “Sound Off” The album starts in a very exciting way as you find that they come through strong with a powerful recording that indicates that something highly significant is going to occur. It is a rough tune and one that that begins things in a very relevant way as they take over the game with this album and so by coming through with such a killer opening track you ...
Advantages: The Funk Disadvantages: Few songs sound 'Christmas'y'
...2006 and came as a Christmas album from Funk legend Bootsy Collins (known for his work as a bassist in The J.B.'s, Funkadelic, Parliamnet and Boosty Collins' Rubber Band). It finds him bringing his own P-Funk twist on a variety of Christmas hits in that style as well as Hip Hop and Soul as we get him producing and singing with guest appearances from Gary Shider, Fred Wesley, Bernie Worrell and Snoop Dogg. 1.“N-Yo-City” Starting the album we see that ... ...**Four Stars** 2.“Merry Christmas Baby” Here we find that we get a track that brings the Funk out in a way that you really wouldn't have ben able to anticipate (even with the introductory cut) as we see that here we have synth joining some live instrumental bass work from his brother Catfish Collins, and Boosty himself makes his first apparent on the record by coming to deliver a fly hook and half-developed verses that take you back to the times ...
Advantages: Great quality music, lots of songs to suit your mood Disadvantages: Couple of poor songs, controversial if you're not into this music
...Movie World of Reviews. The Eminem Show is probably the only album I feel I know well enough to write about, so here goes. Rap artist Eminem has been around for over a decade now. He burst into the hiphop/rap scene and created massive controversy and faced ridicule for being a white rapper, fighting against all the black artists such a P. Diddy, D12, Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Dr. Dre, just to name a few. He began his music life releasing The Slim Shady ... ...Slim Shady, another nickname. Eminem released The Eminem Show in 2002. It sold over a million copies very quickly, and was a bit more playful than his latest two albums (mentioned above). The Slim Shady/Marshall Mathers LPs were very serious, about guns, suicide, killing, how much he hates his mum and family and wants them dead (not nice..), and how he hated other artists. The Eminem Show's first released single was 'Without Me'. In the video of ...
