Ghetto Pop Life
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Louisiana Music: A Journey from R&B to Zydeco, Jazz to Country, Blues to Gospel, Cajun Music to Swamp Pop to Carnival Music and beyond
Ghetto Pop Life
Customer Review: Overall, good.
Some of the tunes on this album are brilliant and remind me a bit of Kanye West and what he is doing (and what others are not doing) in the genre. The production is awesome and sounds good on all media and some of the instrumentation is inspired.
There are a couple of tracks on here that sound like '90s West Coast throwbacks which don't really gel with the really strong tracks (The Only One, Ghetto Pop Life and Medieval) which are much more contempory. I agree with one of the other reviewers here who said he felt some of the lyrics were a little crude (not in the biblical sense!) and let down, what is, a very strong album. I also love the cover art.
This is in the mold of Kanye West with a bit of Nas - if that yanks your crank then buy this album.
Customer Review: —Ghetto pop life-hotter than a hot slice——-
Best album of 2004? Could well be…..
I know everyone bangs on about it but Dangermouse’s production just screams CLASSIC. He’s been using Protools for this one and the beats are crisper than frozen leaves. It makes the grey album production sound like it was done on fisher price’s ‘my first sequencer’. He’s taken mad breaks from all over but made them into a coherent album with a strong signature style.
Jemini (who once guested on a peter andre album!) has a strong enough flow to keep pace with the production and records with a string of punch-ins and overdubs that make parts of the album sound more like three MCs (a la Beasties or Pharcyde) than one. He holds down more topics than your average NY thug rapper, politicing on bush, drugs, big rims, food….er…and nuff more..
There’s a reason this album has killed it all over the world with a tenth of the promotion of bigger artists……Its just plain sick…
look out for the new dangermouse/ mf doom collaboration out 2005.
