D.O.J. (Death of Jerking) - Various Artists

The 17-year-old MR. A-M released “D.O.J: Death of Jerking” in 2009, clearly inspired by Jay-Z “D.O.A” (a track designed to rid the Hip Hop game of the utilisation of auto-tuning technology) however in this case the Inglewood, Californian is actually compiling a series of underground hits which have him on the production and have him offering something with more potential longevity that Jerkin’ (and isn’t actually calling for an end to the Cali-born ...
...jeans and bright colours) and rather offer club bangers, some of which can be taken as this.

1. “SMH” (Intro)

2. “Welcome To D.O.J” (Lude)

3. “Give Me”

Coming off a news report from the States documenting this jerkin’ culture, you see that MR A-M gives us a little something to understand just where he is thinking of taking his music before dropping a rap of his own, in which he shows how he takes ... more

The 17-year-old MR. A-M released “D.O.J: Death of Jerking” in 2009, clearly inspired by Jay-Z “D.O.A” (a track designed to rid the Hip Hop game of the utilisation of auto-tuning technology) however in this case the Inglewood, Californian is actually compiling a series of underground hits which have him on the production and have him offering something with more potential longevity that Jerkin’ (and isn’t actually calling for an end to the Cali-born Hip Hop sub-culture that has its followers (jerks) were skinny jeans and bright colours) and rather offer club bangers, some of which can be taken as this.

1. “SMH” (Intro)

2. “Welcome To D.O.J” (Lude)

3. “Give Me”

Coming off a news report from the States documenting this jerkin’ culture, you see that MR A-M gives us a little something to understand just where he is thinking of taking his music before dropping a rap of his own, in which he shows how he takes on some of the old late eighties and early nineties style. Then with this one F.A.T.E. does a generic tune for a female trying to make it when unsigned for a weak opener (especially for having a non-Jerkin’ Song).

**One Star**

4. “I’m A Master”

Lavish comes to do his thing on this with one as you see that he comes in with some fairly decent rhymes (although nothing particularly special) and does it all on some East Coast sounding rhymes. Banks is a guest here, and what he brings is simply wackness, it is really amateurish and shows no quality whatsoever and seems to spoil anything that the track had in its early stages to bring things down massively.

**Two Stars**

5. “Feelin’ Myself”

In famous Kid (who I know from Jerkin’ Music tunes) comes to rap on the beats here and you see that with this one he keeps to the club-based danceable material, but you see that it is far from Jerkin’ material. Though MR A-M may not be feeling it fully, I can’t help but feel he pushes his ideas upon the rapper, who flops because his rhymes are only good enough to be carried on Jerkin’ beats.

**Two Stars**

6. “She Wants Me”

The Rockitboyz are behind this one and with the name that they have gone by, I did expect nothing but Jerkin’ material from them, however you still don’t get any of this from them (or MR A-M) yet as here we take things towards the clubs, but he still decides to make it sound like it goes against the typical West Coast sound, but really I prefer it to what he does, as it means that the rappers can’t really stay on his level and lose it as a result.

**Two Stars**

7. “A-M On Jerking” (Lude)

8. “KO”

A-M gives Jerkin’ Music 6 months starting from September 2009 on the interlude building up to this one, and you see that in this one you actually get a tune that fits much more into this stlye, although I would consider it to be on the weaker end, as he tries to fit far too much into it. Infamous Kid gets to the rhyming and seems much more comfortable this time around, but does nothing that impressive.

**Two Stars**

9. “Clothes Off”

F.A.T.E comes to return on this one and you see that MR-Am does a good job of (as has been seen at every point on the album) he changes his production stlye so much that it doesn’t sound like he was behind them all, but in this case he attempts some of the more sensual stuff but can’t really hold things together that well at all (and this isn’t helped by the fact that the rapper is amongst the worst found here).

**One Star**

10. “Brain On Drugs”

LJ gets the chance to lay down his raps on this one as you see that for this tune MR A-M brings some club beats, but really what he does it wrong. It doesn’t work as it is off-beat and though he may argue that he is pushing boundaries, you can’t really do this when dealing with dance material, as it is supposed to be straight-forward and so it prevents the rappers strong rhymes from eally being felt as they should. He stubbornness to incorporate the heavy bass of Jerkin’ Music means that A-M loses it for himself.

**Two Stars**

11. “Crazy Fans” (Lude)

12. “Mo’ Money”

B. DuB and MR-A-M himself come to do the rhyming on this one as you see that he goes for a tune that take on heavy influence from Drake’s style and the production directions that are seen in Noah ‘40’ Shebib’s work as he get futuristic with it, but with it so obvious where things are being taken from, it just sounds poor (especially when you consider just how strong Drake’s lyrical abilities are compared to who has a vocal role in this one).

**One Star**

13. “I’m Back”

This one has Infamous Kid going right into the thing as you see that MR A-M couldn’t resist appealing directly to the people around about his age to come out with some more Jerkin’ material and stuff that forces you to groove along to the thing. The rhymes aren’t really that good, but as ever it is just the type of thing that you would expect to get from a rapper on this level working with this kind of production.

**Three Stars**

14. “Pass The Bubblethrax”

This is the final Infamous kid tune on the mixtape and in this case you see that MR A-M distances himself from previous material even more with this one as he gets down to one where he gets down into the Dirty South style (or more specifically the Houston style that was taken to some degree by the way many Jerkin’ tracks’ hooks are composed). The rhymes are what let it down here as the rest is quite strong.

**Three Stars**

15. “For All To Envy”

F.A.T.E. ends the mixtape off and you see that in it she comes with a tune that I have to say felt rather predictable as you see that in it stays on a very low level and is prevented from going anywhere due to the fact that she doesn’t really say anything of any significance and is backed up by some lifeless beats that you really wouldn’t be missing out on if you missed them as the mixtape comes to an end.

**One Star**

MR A-M seems rather arrogant and ignorant here and as he does this with his intensions of exposing this movement for its lack of substance, he does little to show that there’s any hope for the future with generic beats that are used by rappers that really don’t have what is needed to make things happen. He feels that Jerkin’ Music is simplifying Hip Hop as it uses only the foundations of what are needed to make good dance music, but he doesn’t realises that this is what makes it so innovative as is goes against everything that they had attempted to do in the past.
 

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