WE EAT SO MANY SHRIMP

(excuse the shittiness of the images, I scanned the cover of my old tape for this.)

This post was inspired by this post a few weeks ago.

I was either 13 or 14 years old when I first heard this tape. When it dropped Homies was their lead single off this shit and on Phoenix’s Power 92.3 it was getting constant rotation. Homies was my motherfucking jam. It was on some feel good sunday afternoon type shit. Kind of made sense since the song was on the same tip as “On A Sunday Afternoon” which was their most popular song off their debut album, Brown And Proud. I don’t know how popular the song was outside of the southwest but “On A Sunday Afternoon” was the feel good summer jam at all the lowrider shows. LSOB never enjoyed the level popularity of Cypress Hill but in 1992 they were probably the 2nd largest latin act out there. Oh and for those that don’t know Lighter Shade Of Brown was made up of two mc’s ODM (One Dope Mexican) and DTTX (Don’t Try To Xerox). I remember when I first heard LSOB I was so fucking stoked that there were latin rappers out there on some brownpride type shit. Cypress Hill was out there but they weren’t rapping about Pacho Villa and fucking Zapata so when I heard LSOB doing it I fucking ate that shit up trying to be the brownest mexican I could be.

When I scrounged up enough money to buy the tape I hoped on my bike and rolled over to Christown mall and bought the motherfucker at Montgomery Ward. For some reason this Montgomery Ward had a music section and it was cheap. I think that is also where I bought Enter The 36th Chamber.

Anyways, my favorite song on the album has to be the posse cut at the very end, Interrogated Cause I’m Brown PT 1+2. The song features KAOS, Street Mentatlity, PeeBee, Aztlan Nation and ALT. Its definetly not one of the greatest posse cuts ever but I don’t care I still think the song is fucking dope. The beat isn’t anything too amazing and the lyrics aren’t on some next shit but so the fuck what. They are talking shit about immigration cops and thats fucking great. This song was my lighter shade of fuck the police.

No more mp3 time:

Interrogated Cause I’m Brown

Homies

So this afternoon I was rolling down the slab on my new vogues when I saw the ghost of Dj Screw. I pumped by brakes so hard I almost broke my woodgrain steering wheel. So I jumped out of my candy coated Excursion and just as my feet touched the pavement Screw tossed me the new Slim Thug album, Already Platinum. I said “Thank you ghost of Dj Screw” and he told me “don’t sweat it mayne, I’m da thoedest, awwwready.” And I replied “yes, you are the thoedest.” Then I got back in the Excursion and threw the cd in as I continued to roll down the slab.

Now I guess I should apologize to the ghost of Dj Screw because he gave me this cd and I truely appreciate it but to tell you the truth I’m kind of dissappointed in the album. There are definetly some dope tracks on here but I think the Neptunes got to meddling a little too much. A few months back I heard “I Ain’t Heard” which was the lead single off this and its produced by the Neptunes and that song fucking sucks. I started to worry that this album might not be good but then Three Kings came out and that song fucking rules. So after hearing that I was thinking oh this shit is going to be heat all the way. But as it turns out I think its kind of on some middle ground shit, well as to what I would like to hear. Maybe I had my hopes up too much for this album but whatever. I’ve never been to crazy about the Neptunes so you have to take that into account. But after listening to this album I feel as though what the Neptunes tried to do and failed that they tried to fit Slim Thug to their sound rather than working Slim’s own sound and style. He’s not known because he raps over beats with no bass, he’s known because he wrecks hard ass southern beats.

I guess a primary example of my issue with the production on this album would be track 9, Problematic. You see this song could be hard as fuck, Slim gets real cute with his shit but the beat has no fucking bass and that shit just isn’t cool with me. If I wanted to enjoy songs with no bass I’d go listen to the fucking Young Gunz or some shit. The way the song starts out I’m expecting the beat to drop in and just blow my ears out but that never happens. Slim steps up his flow and comes faster than usually. For a song that has Slim rapping about how you’re scared to call the laws because you don’t want it with him and his hoggs the beat is on the softer side of hiphop. Production aside I think Slim goes hard on this album and I’m happy about that. I just think they should have left off some of the softer beats.

But enough of talking about the weak parts though. The album starts out with this track called “Move Somethin,” which is dope. The beat has a New York feel to, at least I think so anyways. Then comes the second track, Like A Boss. Mayne hold up, this shit fucking knocks. 3 Kings is my favorite song on the album but this is a close second. Slim has some girl in the background yelling about how he is the motherfucking boss and the beat definetly helps drive home who is the fucking boss. Jazze Phae makes a contribution to the album on “So Incredible.” I’m not to crazy about Jazze’s singing but at least his beat is alright, he’s getting cute with some organs and guitars. Another track I like is “Rockstar,” its got this guitar that kind of gives it that country rap tunes feel. It’s a pretty chill beat but I like it plenty. I also like “Too Clean” well besides the fact that in parts of the song nothing fucking happens. They just let the beat play for like 30 seconds. They didn’t even get real cute with it or anything, its actually sounds like they messed up and couldn’t get the mics to work. Also I could do without bitch ass Pharrell whispering “too clean.” Whatever issues I have with the Neptunes I still think its a worthy purchase. So yeah I’m going to throw up a few mp3s. Get them while their fucking hot or before the ghost of Dj Screw tells me to take them down.

I told you to hurry but now its too late. Way to go you slow ass bitches.

Like A Boss

Move Somethin

Rockstar