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king t....thy kingdome come

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verbalassaulta:
someone who's got it... a review please..damn all those dre tracks...i didnt even know it was out...

Lord Funk:
Only too happy to help homie

1. Intro (feat. Ice T)

An old fashioned intro, with Ice T spittin' some game over a Fred Wreck beat that's halfway between gangsta and gothic. Nice, but too brief to warrant a rating.

2. Speak On It

Wow. What a hot Dre beat - reminds me of 'Just Dippin', with that real gangsta bounce that almost recaptures the g-funk days. T's lyrics are straight gangsta, just about riding really - the hook is simply "That's that G shit, mobbin' through yo' hood / groove on gangstas, groove on" 5/5

3. Stay Down

I never realsied T's story-telling skills were this good. He rhymes about an OG he ran with back in the days, all the game he taught him and how he still has his back to this day. The hook is tight- "God please shine you light cuz my people are sightless / And nothing's positive when you're far from righteous." Buddah brings in some nice strings on the chorus, a little reminiscent of X's 'Papparazi'. Dope track.  5/5

4. Skweeze Ya Balls (feat. Baby S)

Battlecat produces this, and you can tell immediately from the drum track, although the cinematic strings sweeping in and out of the mix are a little different for him. Baby S and King T go back and forth on the mic. Can't say I'm fond of Baby S - he always sound a little too much like ex-Row inmate Top Dogg to me. Still, he holds his own, and T's lyrics are dope - "Peep it how we deal it, keep it if you feel it / all tha set trippin' kill it, it only takes a minute." 4/5

5. Monay (feat. Dre)

An eerie, mysterious beat from Dre, with some BIG ASS kicks - definately one that needs to be cranked up loud. T and Dre rap about -  you guessed it - money. Tight hook and both rappers deliver dope verses - T outshines Dre on the mic as you might expect, with lines like "Straight bout it /  building ideas with self-made millionaires to get the dancefloors crowded." 4/5

6. Da Kron (feat Dre)

A different kind of beat from Dre - sounds almost east Coast, with uptempo drums and wah-wah guitars, but is so addictive and will have you bobbing your head in two bars. This is basically T's theme for Aftermath. The hook is "I got the chron', talkin' bout the bomb, say what? / Cuz Dr Dre laced me with the shit that won't fail." Nuff said. Oh, and if you listen carefully in the hook, Dre mixes in the same "the bomb!" sample that he did on Snoop's 'Who Am I'. Nice touch. 5/5

7. Big Boyz (feat. Too $hort)

Ant Banks provides a funky, thick Oakland beat, laced with some smooth bongo drums in the back. T delivers while Short Dos sounds exactly the same as he has for the last 15 years, so you know what to expect there. 3.5/5

8. Let's make A V (feat Quik, Frost and El Debarge)

Wow. One of those addictive Quik beats that makes you think of sunshine and women - ain't a thing wrong with that. T and Quik mack to the women for two verses before Q switches the beat to some old Latin-style shit for Frost's verse. It souns dope, but a little clumsy when it switches back for T's fourth verse. Still, Quik can do little wrong for me, so it has to get the big...5/5

9. Tha Game (It's Ruff) (feat. Playa Hamm)

T and Hamm make a great combination on the mic - just here them flippin' back and forth and you'll know what I'm talking about. Battlecat's beat is SO funky and west coast and quite simply hot that it's not even funny. The drum track is banging and the voice box in the chorus is a wicked finishing touch. 5/5

10. Reel Raw (feat. Killer Ben)

"THE AFTERMATH IS READY TO WORK IT OUT!!" Great Dre beat - sounds just like those early tracks off the Aftermath compilation, Dre's signiture sound immediately after leaving Death Row. Not sure who Kiler Ben actually is - the rapper on the track is Sharief, also off the Aftermath CD. Hmmm. Not the greatest track on the CD - I would like to have heard Dre on this beat - but good none the less. 3/5

11. 2 G's From Compton (Feat. MC Ren)

Not the kind of beat I was expecting at all. It's much jazzier than anything I've heard Ren on before. Speaking of Ren, he totally steals the show with line like "The villaim be down wioth the king like Joey Simmons" (geddit?) and "My niggas be the coolest, now we make the pussy hot." Dope. 4/5

12. Shake da Spot (feat. Shaq O'Neal)

Amazing samples of 'California Love' here. Buddah delivers a fucking hard beat with sparse pianos, then laces Roger Troutman's accapella vocals from the end of Cali Love in and out of the mix. You really have to hear it to appreciate it. Even Shaq sounds dope over this beat, and that's sayin' something... 4/5

13. 6 N Da Mornin' (feat Dawn Robinson)

Damn, what the fuck is this shit? The beat is a loop of Dre and LL's Zoom, with some Biggie vocal samples over the top. The production is terrible - you have to turn the volume way up to put the sound quality on the same level as the rest of the album. I don't believe Dre intended this for the album - he's pretty strict about quality and he wouldn't just re-use a beat like this. Low point of the CD. 2/5

14. Step On By (feat. Dre, RC & Crystal)

A wack attempt at commercialism. Dre's beat sounds like the kind of stuff he did on The Firm's album, where he was tryni' to fool us that he was a Big Willie and no longer a gangsta. Dre's verse is hilarious - he's trying to convince us he's a playa, but do these lines sound like the Dre we know and love? "I'm into chillin', sippin' wine, not illin' / Intellectual conversation, let's talk plans of buildin' / Clean-cut, whut, how does that sound? A gentleman / Plus a spiritual background is how I get down." Er, right Dre - whatever you say. 2/5

15. Big Ballin' (Playin' 2 Win) (feat. RC)

Phew, back on track. Yet another Dre beat, but back to some gangsta shit - slow, low and rolling. T sounds cool and confident, and RC sings the chorus to the tune of Rolling Stone's "Miss You" (Think Dre's remix or Snoop's "Y'all Gone Miss Me") Dope. 3.5/5

16. Where's T (feat Dre)

A strange chorus, but then after Dre produced Eminem's "My dad's Gone Crazy" nothing surprises me! Not Dre's best beat, but Dre's verse is dope, probably his best lyrics on this CD - "Nobody gets looser than this producer / 48 tracks that's live, three or four cars to ride / Comin' out of LA, regulatin' the West Coast / The East Coast, the between coast and I'm ghost... Aftermath - ain't no need to ask" 3/5

17. Nuthin has Changed (feat. Kool G Rap and Tray D)

What a combination. All come correct over Buddah's East Coast-styled beat, complete with clever sampling of George Clinton in the hook. Too many lyrics to quote, but what would would you expect from these three together? G Rap's verse is just bananas... 4/5

18. The Original (feat Who's Who)

Mike Dean takes T down south for the final track, all about the gangsta life. Not the best track to end with really, as it's a little laid back, but it's cool for some pimp sounding ish. 3/5

Overall - Wow. A solid 4.5/5 for me. Having only spotted this in shops  the other day, I had to bring up a thread about it in the main board just to see if it was worth getting. Having copped it I can safely join the voices that urged me to, and from the number of people posting about it now a lot of people are fiending for it. My advice is to beg, borrow or steal a copy, cuz it's nothing but the bomb baby! Dre should be kicking himself for not releasing this in 98. I'm sure he had his reasons, but I'm damn glad someone did it for him in the end.

teecee:
NIce review, but i got some questions/comments......

1st off, that 6 n tha mornin was recorded way before Zoom Zooms, and since it wasn't released Dre used the beat first for the unreleased song with Snoop....when that wasn't released either, then he used it for the song with LL.  I thought the one with King Tee was incredible......

Second, are you sure Shaq is actually on that song?  Haven't listened in a while, but i can't remember Shaq spitting on there.....

CantCme213:
Shaq is just doin tha hook fo it

Murrow:
Lord Funk - Tight review.  You made me wanna get this Cd even more.  Do yo uthink you could snag me a copy over hwere you live, and I'll pay you back for it?  Help me out, I've been waiting on this CD for ages.

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