{"id":68042,"date":"2017-06-30T22:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68042"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T18:55:34","slug":"audio-review-which-way-iz-west-album-mc-eiht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68042","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Which Way Iz West ( album ) &#8230; MC Eiht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/68042-1.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : Which Way Iz West ( album ) ... MC Eiht\" style=\"height:200px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I thought DJ Premier was supposed to provide the beats for this album, which has apparently been in the works for years, but most of the production is handled by Brenk Sinatra. He&#8217;s a fitting alternative with a similar style, though neither can match the dramatic hood scores DJ Slip and others orchestrated in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The closest here might be the one song that features Boom Bam and Tha Chill from CMW; Last Ones Left; a smokey riders anthem. The album should start with a solo MC Eiht song, not an Outlawz feature, but that\u2019s its biggest flaw. The beats bang and the vocals are what you\u2019ve been getting from MC Eiht since 89.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 3 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought DJ Premier was supposed to provide the beats for this album, which has apparently been in the works for years, but most of the production is handled by Brenk Sinatra. He&#8217;s a fitting alternative with a similar style, though neither can match the dramatic hood scores DJ Slip and others orchestrated in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=68042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : Which Way Iz West ( album ) &#8230; MC Eiht<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9761],"tags":[2234,7805,188,161],"class_list":["post-68042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-3-of-5-rating","tag-brenk-sinatra","tag-california","tag-dj-premier","tag-mc-eiht"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68042"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99075,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68042\/revisions\/99075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}