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 0 star no Talent - What has happened to HIP HOP and Rap????? December 6, 2004
M. Willden (North Salt Lake, UT United States)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I remember the days when you have 2 amazing types of music, HIP-HOP which was usually dancy and light, yet thoughtful and intellignet sometimes, or just plain dancy with rapping vocals such as Black Eyed Peas, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, and even some of Puff Daddy's fun 80's and 70's samples were fun to dance to.
On the other hand we had Rap or Gangsta whatever. The Beats were usually downplayed by incredible flow, aggresion and energy that was usually political, rebellious, social or intimate. Music Like NWA, Ice T, Ice Cube, WU-Tang and all their variations, and may others. This was aggressive and dark and in your face.
Nowadays all you have is pure LAZY beats and trite cliche' lyrical content that is about being the best, because they can drink, and smoke and do more hoes then you. Even Female Rap has gone down the tube What happened to Queen Latifa and Salt N Peppa. Now all we have is Lil' Kim and other's rappin about how fast and hard they can please a man and call themselves Beotches and Hoes.
Eminem and 50 tried to bring aggression back, but fill their stuff with too much EGO Potty Humor and death without the political agenda. You can't talk politics one song, and fart or puke in the next, you sound like a hypocrite. And 50 has one of the worst rhymes ever with "I am on you like a fat kid on cake." Horrible who cares if you are in jail and you have sex visits in prison with you ex.
Now onto Lil John. First of his lyrical content is horrible and cliche'. Now I have no problems with harsh language, when it is done with a purpose like NWA. But Using language like that to describe how you are gonna beat up guys in a club because they are flirting with your hoes is pointless. It seems as though he is so ignorant that him and his crew have no other words to fill their raps but meaningless four letter words
His delivery is also so choppy and loud and downright annoying that you might as well listen to Mudvayne's nu-metal, you here the same thing. He has no flow infact, I would call it anti-flow it is so choppy.
His beats are so annoying. Everybody says what a great producer he is, but this is not dancey, or aggressive or important at all. I could not dance to this in a club I am sorry. It sounds like he recorded a dentist drill, a semi backing up and a construction site and distorted it to different pitches and speeds which make it sound worse then ever, on top of horribly repetitive generic bass loops.
Overall, Stuff like this has ruined a great style of music. Worst of all it did this just to make rap go commercial. Screw commercial, go buy WU-Tang stuff they are still releasing, as well as common, Mos Def, Talib and all those artists like that for true meaningful hip hop and rap, not this so-called music. This has no purpose other then to to make them money to put more gold on all their "lil" teeth. What happened to Porcelain???
An awful assult on your hearing March 20, 2005
Ekwensi C. Black (Osan AB, Korea)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Lil John has to be the most ignorant negro in the history of ignorant negroes. He has ear of our black youth and instead of doing anything positive with this opportunity, he just defacates all over the music industry with his pointless yelling. I'll be the first to bet Lil John's vocabulary doesn't even hit double digits. I hate seeing young, impressionable black people mimicking everything they see from buffoons like Lil John, when most of them couldn't even tell you anything about somebody who's doing something positive for black people. I love hip hop but its contamination from the likes of Lil John worries me.
Lil Jon Sucks!! June 14, 2006
MIKEHUNT (HELL)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I actually dont own the cd but ive heard enough of his stuff to want to rip my f# kin hair out. Yeah he pretty much sucks all around.
All Lil Jon Fans Are Dumb As Hell!!! September 3, 2006
Jackson Braybrooks
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I can't believe rubbish like this goes platinum. Rap today with a few exceptions is a joke. People like Chingy, Nelly, Ludacris, Ja Rule, Lil Jon and any other idiot with Lil in their name are ruining rap and making it look like a joke. What is really getting me angry is how so many people don't give any respect to real rap legends like Tupac and Biggie, and give tons of respect to all these clowns. People are thinking this is the sort of stuff rap fans listen to. All these people talk about is money, bling bling and sex. Rap used to be about the streets now its just all i've got so much money and stuff. If you want a real rap CD then get one of the following.
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Ice Cube - Amerikka's Most Wanted
Dr Dre - The Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Nas - Illmatic
Tha Dogg Pound - Dogg Food
Tupac - Me Against The World
Tupac - All Eyez On me
Tupac - Greatest Hits
50 Cent - Power Of The Dollar
Biggie - Life After Death
You get the picture.
 Good if you have decent subs November 17, 2004
Will M. (Plano, TX)
10 out of 32 found this review helpful
I'm a white guy from the suburbs and get my dose of rap from select radio stations and mtv. I was introduced to Lil' Jon a while ago when usually rap artists add about 7 names to the "featuring" list. I find that stuff derrogatory of an album with so many artists trying to get their name on a song. I do understand that some people think 12 people screaming the n word and cussing on the mike, music....yet this i actually decided to buy this album since Lil' Jon had one thing going for him that all the other "tack on" rap artists didnt have: charisma. If you watch him in videos he loves what hes doing and really personifies it in his music. Granted most people don't indulge in rap music because all they sing about is "bling" and getting laid which lil jon does a bunch on the album. The point im trying to get at is that i wouldnt have bought the album had i not had 12 inch subwoofers in the back of my car, yeah i like bass, which this album has plenty of at times. Although i didnt give it 5 because lil' jon doesn't really seem all that talented without the creative beats he mixes. If not for the hooking basslines and beats Lil' John put forth in this album, it would just be like any other rap album. If you feel like checking the album out...then please take into consideration that his music my bust your subwoofers if you're not careful.
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