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audio review : Connected And Respected ( album ) … E-40 + B-Legit

audio review : Connected And Respected ( album ) ... E-40 + B-Legit

Fans have been waiting for a new Click album for several years. I guess this, the first set from its two best rappers, will have to do. E-40 and B-Legit have long gone together like peanut butter and jelly. While the former is the obvious star, the latter is no slouch on the mic. He says he’s “mad underrated”. Replace “mad” with “a tad” and I’d agree. He never alters his monotone style, but it works for him.

With that, the duo, who also happen to be cousins, have the verses on lock. They’re the best parts of the album. The worst parts have to do with the songs themselves, specifically when it comes to the breaks. Nearly every one of these songs has a dull; or in the case of Tap In, Whooped and Boy, downright annoying; hook. That’s a major aesthetic problem, along with the abundance of vapid hood beats.

my rating : 3 of 5

2018

audio review : Make America Crip Again ( EP ) … Snoop Dogg

audio review : Make America Crip Again ( EP ) ... Snoop Dogg

The MACA theme is an obvious reference to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan, but the word Crip, which can be read as an adjective or a verb, offers nothing in the way of clever puns or wordplay. It’s a title that doesn’t make much sense. America as a whole never gangbanged. OG Snoop apparently never stopped, at least on record. This EP makes a point of that. Why it ends with a lovey-dovey serenade to a girl beats me.

The best part of the set comes at the end of Three’s Company; a westside party starter featuring OT Genasis and Chris Brown; when the vocals finally make way for the music to bump. What a funky beat it is. Bassy beats are actually the best thing Snoop’s Crip Again EP has to offer. The rest may as well be reject tracks from his last two albums. Stealing the hook from Slick Rick’s Hey Young World for the opening title cut is especially lame.

my rating : 3 of 5

2017