Tag: Willie D

audio review : I’m Goin Out Lika Soldier ( album ) … Willie D

I'm Goin Out Lika Soldier ( album ) ... Willie D

Willie D is funny when he’s mad and yelling, and he’s usually mad and yelling. That’s why he’s my favorite member of the Geto Boys; a group he’s no longer a part of and might be at war with. If he’s Goin Out Lika Soldier, as the ridiculous album title insists, he’s a one-man army, but it’s best that way. When comrades arrive to Pass Da Piote, it makes for the album’s worst song.

The best or at least most entertaining; the set is scattered with clever comedy bits; are the ones on which he’s Goin off on (bald-head) hoes. There’s a diss about a Little Hooker named Choice and My Dick knocks pussy off the pedestal sexist society tries to put it on. Both songs are hilarious, but he goes the opposite way on Clean-Up Man; the anthem of a typical romantic.

When he’s not aiming at women, he’s taking shots at men; from Rodney King; there’s a whole song about how much he hates the motorist for being a racial “sellout”; to phony Gankstas to “weak-ass” rappers he wants to Die. By the end of the album, over a funky Average White Band sample, he’s put himself in a situation in which has to come-up with an Alibi for murder.

my rating : 3 of 5

1992

audio review : The BDP Album ( album ) … KRS-One

audio review : The BDP Album ( album ) ... KRS-One

The title makes no sense. Even if it were Another BDP Album, that wouldn’t be the case unless it’s down to just KRS-One and Kenny Parker. Still why not credit BDP as the artist and give it a different title? BDP albums were KRS-One’s anyway. The difference now is that, while his rap skills are, his albums are no longer “fresh”… for 2012, 2011 or any year within the past decade or so. This, basically a Kenny Parker mixtape of KRS-One demo songs, is easily one of his worst.

my rating : 2 of 5

2012

audio review : Loved By Few Hated By Many ( album ) … Willie D

audio review : Loved By Few Hated By Many ( album ) ... Willie D

Willie D doesn’t holler that much anymore. Hollering was his trademark. He’d tell Bald Head Hoes to suck his dick at the top of his lungs and I’d laugh. The only time he really raises his voice here is at the end of If I Was White. “We are black, they are white,” the racist anthem goes, “Our blood is red, but we can never unite.”

He’s still rapping about Geto life from the perspective of an inner-city street thug, which I guess is appropriate because these days his vocal delivery sounds more like 2Pac than the Willie D from back in the day. There’s also a song entitled Lil Killaz that has him sounding oddly similar to his homeboy Scarface.

Still I prefer even this Willie D over Scarface and 2Pac. This album is a disappointment, but there are standouts. The best is Freaky Deaky featuring Pimp C. The two trade sex verses over a sultry beat, but the best verse comes from Willie D’s cousin Nay-Nay, who steals the spotlight with her country flow.

my rating : 3 of 5

2000