It's all about the Benjamins ... and coming from a duo that like no other for hard and komprisslosen Reality Rap (yes they coined themselves) and street credibility is not just for me probably the best rap crew the second representing half of the nineties.
But after "Amerikaz Nightmare" not even reached gold status and one has gedropt at Jive, such a move was not surprising, since they have standing without doubt genung under 50s wing and Promo money in back to back can really hyper.
Now the question was how the two would remain faithful to their style or whether 50 would purely bungle them everywhere. Since there are already already sounded the previous album with its pumping, fast beats strongly of G-Unit, I asked myself do not - you have to see, just that they are never again so minimalist depressed and gloomy as 10 years ago will listen - the times are final (unfortunately) over. But enough of history, the album is in fact a positive surprise.
1. "Smoke It" is a perfect opener, slow and melancholic beat - just Mobb Deep.
2. Continuing with the first single, "Put them in Their Place" - indeed is clear G-Unit style but Sha Money's Beat is just fat and especially Havoc raps really horny.
3. "Stole Something" featured Lloyd Banks and is a rock-solid track in the vein of "Amerikaz Nightmare".
4. "Creep" is more annoying in the long run, Hav Loopt here constantly a sample that sounds as if you only UP AND then down plays on a xylophone the complete tone row again.
5. "Speakin so freely" has the good old melancholy Mobb vibe again and could just as well have originated 10 years ago - Killer Hav-Beat!
6. "Backstage Pass" is the only complete failure of the album. Lyrically a letdown, as a kind of "Groupie Love" Pt. II and the Beat (K Lassik) is simply miserable and not even on Mixtape level.
7. "Give it to me" is a rather simple and club track sounds very exotic (Indian) to, any particularly great Havoc production, at least Young Buck to match.
8. Yeah! Here you'll find even a really cool and innovative sample and that the theme of 'Knight Rider'.Havoc has truly crafted a cool beat - and Tony Yayo raps really tight.
9. "Pearly Gates" is the standout track of the album! Exiles' Beat fits like chalk and cheese, 50 and Havoc outdo each other in their mutual Parts and Mr. Jackson brings the hottest hook, which I have so far heard from him. Prodigy's blasphemous verse is already legendary and was mittles of Interscope drastic Scratcher defused! Originally, he rapped the following lines:
'Now homey if I go to hell When you make it to the pearly gates, tell the boss man we got beef
And tell his only son imma see him when i see him, and when i see him, imma beat him like the movie for Leaving Me Shelter dry and straight poverty, for not showing me no signs They watching over me Look, we're a New Breed In 2006, we do not give a fuck about that religious bullshit '- though very controversial but also kind of funny. In any case shows how meticulously the Americans are in this topic - Sex & Violence are not the big problem, but the track was even cut to the PA version, speaks volumes ..
10. "Capital P, Capital H" is a very smoother track that pretty westcoast-moderate and severe sounds after "Infamy" style - succeeded.
11. "Daydreamin" is the next killer song. P and Hav rapping about the past and how they dreamed of a life that they can not afford now - to a reduced but hypnotic beat of Chad beat.
12. "The Infamous" is already longer on air, but for me the only alchemist beat quite a disappointment. The piano-sample is too often kept out, instead, there's a strange snare with bubble sounds and a bad hook - a matter of taste.
13. "In Love With The Moula" is a declaration of love for money and lyrically quite strong - to a more melodic and peaceful Beat by JR Rotem - one of the highlights.
14. "It's alright" used unfortunately exactly the same sample as the Alchemist-production "Tick Tock" (Prodigy & NAS) and to a chorus of Mary J. Blige, the irgendiwe does not fit and has drübergeschustert unloving.
In conclusion, the two hot club tracks "Have a Party" (Grodt soundtrack) and "Outta Control" remix. Especially the latter is indeed the bomb, but is now one a bit too often.
Considering that the two loud Cover no longer 'Infamous' are, but recently "Hollywood Hav' and 'bandana' vi 'P' and the whole artwork, the back cover and the word big in" Beg for Mercy "reminds, have the two real again releast a Kiler album, for me definitely their best in the new millennium. Thank goodness there's only one "GGGG-Unit" on the album and the two seem to really do their thing alone dürfen.Allerdings states that 50 Havocs Beats should have picked that disappoint some, which is probably at the strange Sampling is, he has used, among others, the compositions "Puella Puella", "Dil Tha Akela Akela" and "Tujhe Yaad Na Meri AA Yee" - accordingly, foreign and oriental-sounding inappropriate some of the things also.
Sad also that only the G-Unit was featured, no NAS, no Infamous Mobb, no CNN, no Tragedy Khadafi, no Screwball - not even as far on each album Big Noyd that this includes easy!
Furthermore, some hot tracks like "gangbang Music ft. Yayo", "flows Tighter" and "Horror Flick", which should end up on the album only and of course the highly anticipated DRE-production "Nightmares" missing.
Despite these minor shortcomings a perfectly good album that is also recommended for any fan of the old wheels!
PS: To all who may think determine what "real" Mobb Deep sound is: You should now have mitgekriegt that the mid-90s 10 years ago - a glorious time of hip hop with Pac, Biggie, the Wu-Tang Clan and his associates. Can we seriously expect Mobb Deep doing now a second "Infamous" ?? - Not serious. The album is just as one could imagine a Mobb album on the G-Unit label - no other "Hell on Earth" or "Murda Muzik", clearly - but their grimey style are largely remained faithful. This can not be compared with a "Massacre" has crashed genuine. Mobb Deep have in the new millennium (since "Infamy) her style just getting a bit changed and adapted - 80% of the panel are still straight Mobb Deep - and whoever says something else, is simply ignorant.
If you compare each NaS album "Illmatic", each Wu-Tang album with "36 Chambers" and each snoop disc with "Doggy Style", you can only ever be disappointed. Then 2006, just two or three club-oriented stuff on it - bestowed.
Did the album now heard a few months and it is definitely useful - 3 1/2 Mics in the source I think are a suitable and proper evaluation - who comes back with 1 or 2 stars, is not really taken seriously.
So: Stop hatin '.
