Favorite MC Ren project (after N.W.A)?

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Kizz was raw, felt like loosies.. and the production was too big a departure from Dre for me to really love it at the time.. it was great, but still a little disappointing..

Shock of The Hour was dope cause the production was a step up, and it was unique, content, raps, choruses...

Villain in Black with Hutch doing some joints and overseeing it was good not great. Don't really f with much else of his discography

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Kizz My Black Azz Review by Andy Kellman
Produced with veteran Bobby "Bobcat" Ervin (who was producing for King Tee and LL Cool J in the mid-'80s) and DJ Train (who also worked with J.J. Fad and Kam), each beat on the Kizz My Black Azz EP suits MC Ren's stern, straight-ahead flow and grim lyrics. Sometimes it's difficult to discern whether he's trying to outdo or parody his former group's shock factor, as in the single "The Final Frontier": "I hit a nigga off in the head with a chair/The reason for that, the motherf*cker he was standin' there"; "So when you're at my show, let me see you throw your hands up in the air and slap a ho." With 100 Miles and Runnin' and Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted two years old, he probably felt the need to hit as hard as possible. Nonetheless, if there is a case to be made for Ren's status as N.W.A.'s best MC -- he was undeniably the least appreciated -- there's plenty of support to be heard here. The tales, which slightly outnumber the boasts, can be as graphic as a movie rated NC-17, and they're occasionally bold to the point of being tough to digest, but based purely on sound, Kizz My Black Azz is halting from start to finish. Never again would he be so fierce. (Life Sentence, the follow-up album promised on the back of the EP's original release, developed into 1993's Shock of the Hour.)

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MC Ren - Kizz My Black Azz review in The Source September 1992 #36
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Shock of the Hour Review by Ron Wynn
M.C. Ren's debut LP is uneven, but at least presents a lyrical vision when it's not spewing out familiar, tired, sexist cliches about women. Ren highlights American hyprocisy with a vengeance, and the title track foresees the nation's fiery end in an apocalyptic fury enabling black people to finally achieve justice. Both this tune and "Attack On Babylon" come closest to presenting a coherent, effective philosophy. Another provocative track is "Same Old S," a song that strips away any pretense of glamour around the gangsta lifestyle and outlines the brutality, paranoia and violence at its core. These tracks display M.C. Ren's potential as a hip-hop theorist; the others just fill out the CD.

AllMusic Rating 4/5

MC Ren; Shock of the hour review Hip Hop Connection 1/5
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MC Ren Shock Of The Hour review The Source Magazine No.53 Feb.1994 3.5/5
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