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Canibus - C Tru Hollywood Stories Review...
Cliche:
New album by the Canibus man.. peep the review...
Tracklist:
01 Introduction 01:30
02 Stan Lives 01:26
03 U Didn't Care 04:29
04 The Rip Off 04:23
05 "C" T.H.S. (Title Track) 04:03
06 A Different Vibe in L.A. 03:50
07 I Gotta Story 2 Tell 02:24
08 Stan N Can 01:57
09 Hate U 2 Feat. Pakman 03:32
10 Stop Smokin 03:11
11 Lemme Hear Sumthin Else 03:50
12 Hott Tonight 04:37
13 Gotta Get that Doe 04:07
14 R U Lyrically Fit? 03:16
15 Ya Teef Iz Yellow 01:29
16 Luv U 2 04:00
17 Box Cutter 02:36
18 Draft Me! Feat C4 04:32
19 One of My Favorites 01:41
20 "C" T.H.S. Outro 01:53
21 Bonus Track 01:20
Introduction - dope movie/tv show style intro... even if you dont like canibus... this intro is fucking ill. i swear it's got some tv guy doing it...
Stan Lives - This is an intro... it's Canibus and some cats driving to a show.. behind Stan... after he drives off the bridge they pull over and help him, call 911 and whatnot.... which nicely sets up...
U Didnt Care - first song on the album... nice beat... It's the joint with Canibus rapping as "Stan"... personally i think it's dope and hilarious... he talks about what happened since the end of the song until now.... this is some seriously dope writing by Canibus....
The Rip Off - this has a "Can I Kick It" type hook/intro... wierd beat.. it has like a middle eastern flute sample... i like it though... "you played russian roulette with a musket and got busted in your own nugget" This song is basically about an alias known as Rip The Jacker...
C T.H.S. (Title Track) - Very different delivery from Canibus... it's like.. a more mellow.. darker... less amped flow... it's a nice switch up. It details Canibus' life/career
A Different Vibe In L.A. - chick singing the hook.. but it goes with the dark beat.... "its definitely a different vibe west of the prime merdian/producers fuck with live instruments, rhymes are wittier/but don't sleep, cause in a heartbeat cali'll shit on ya/someone'll put a hit on ya/this'll be where they bury ya/i think its beautiful i don't wanna be scarin ya/the women are prettier and the chronic is superior/got a girl from Syria/smells like strawberries on her period/im serious thats why i moved in with the chick/we on the top of Mount Olympus sharin' our intrests/over a moonlit dinner burnin some insence/she looked so innocent/next thing i know she's pinnin' me to the bed like a scene out of basic instinct/bought her a pink mink and a double link ring/she didnt know i was a rapper and i did my thing thing/what a coincidence she listen to Eminem and NSync, Shaggy Nelly and the Saint Lunatic Click/Uh Oh!"
Dopeness to me anyways... his story telling is massively improved....
I Got A Story To Tell - yipes. He's definitely dissing Jigga on this track..... short lil track.. 2 and a half minutes
"Wonder why I make beef out that steamed fish/tell your artists keep my name out their mouth or you wont have no peace/compared to canibus your pitbulls are poultry/you and biggie made a dope team/but i'd roast beans/so be careful how you approach things/my name aint Jay to the Mwah man I got a flow that stinks/its rap music, you confuse it if you want to/i might still diss you just to see what you're gonna do/
you must be gettin insecure or somethin/im just admiring your shit man i aint gonna touch it/i been through a lot of things in my life but i learned from it/put yourself in my shoes don't i deserve something?/the only difference between me and you is a budget/don't make me have to go sign with Suge or somethin/remember this, history repeats itself/whenever that never ending hunger meets itself/everybody want they wealth peace and health/when i was fucked up you aint give me a couple g's to help/did you? no/ you waited for my cheese to melt/you want all the hott beats in the streets to yourself/while my patronym is different enough to attract interest from anybody in the rap business/an ima get it cash or credit/besides a little drama with my first two records/rip the jackers image is unblemished/c'mon i wouldn't bit you/i look at you like my dentist/i thought you was number 1 recommended/why you offended?/hip-hop aint your property you aint the only tenant/if i win the lottery you cant tell me how to spend it/you got somethin to say don't put your henchmen in it/them little monkey faced artists that you signed for pennies/i refuse to serve em like dennys/dont tell me that your school of hard knocks turned preppy/none of y'all motherfuckers know me and you never met me/if my name wasn't shit then you wouldn't sweat me/thats absurd right? me gettin busy get on your nerves right?/you really are listening to the words right? high when i wrote this/but sober when i spoke it/its not like i tried to promote it like Jayo did/you know this/man i was never focused on you/i just spit hard on the mic cause my shit is hot too/i went out and bought your album 2 times i aint hatin/next thing i know you talkin jamaican like you a native/but you really violatin/you dont know what you sayin/Canibus aint in the game so you know he aint playin/i had nothin before and i have nothing now/fucking with a n*gga with nothin only brings you down..."
Stan N Can - basically this is Bis and Stan on an interlude... its funny shit... theyre in a limo... he's going through the candy.. he's like "yo they got candy man, snickers, twix, m&ms.. yo bis i can eat these m&ms?" haha.. i love it...
Hate U 2 feat. Pakman - hello video game beat... Bis basically disses the haters... i dont like the hook... at all... but Bis sounds good. (pakman is another alias i believe.)
Stop Smokin - I honestly don't know what the fuck is going on here.... the guy on the last verse reminds me of G-Child.. hah....basically its talking about crack smoking.
Lemme Hear Something Else - good beat.. Bis spits well.. about the industry etc and how shit is so repetitive... dopeness.
Hott Tonight - "Oh Jermaine.. can you please tell me one of your Hollywood Stories" ... basically this is Bis rapping to the chick on the intro... its dope stuff imo....
Gotta Get That Doe - haha pakman and canibus are talking on the intro... they diss Eminem again on the hook..... Bis tears his ass up.... then Pakman raps... dope as well. I dunno if this is Bis or not? maybe not....
R U Lyrically Fit - sounds more like a typical Canibus song.. until "C4" comes in.. this is probably just Canibus with his voice distorted... reminds me of RBX but not as cool of a voice. i like the violin sample and the way the drums come in once in a while...
Ya Teef Is Yellow - okay... this is a play on a song i've heard before... haha this shit is too funny!!
Luv U 2 - welcome back video game beat.. its basically Hate U 2 flipped..... cool idea.
Box Cutter - man.. this is dope.. classic Canibus....violin beat... Canibus goes off...... the only beef i have is that it's only 2 and a half minutes...
Draft Me - nice rock guitars on the beat... Stan spits on the end haha... dopeness... military setting.. its basically bis and some cats talking about wanting to get into the military and go over to Afghanistan...
One Of My Favorites - the guy from the intro again... reading a Canibus quote... haha its dope.. the guy is reading a Canibus rhyme... i love it.
C.T.H.S Outro - nice outro beat.. dang. could've used this instead of one of the weaker beats on a song..
There's a bonus track on the end with Canibus spitting the rhyme live that the tv guy said on "One Of My Favorites"
Okay... now some people might say things like
a: whys canibus dissing eminem?
- answer - eminem came at him first back in the slim shady days when canibus was already a gold artist...
b: whys canibus dissing jigga?
- answer - i dunno.. sounds like there's some history there.. and who cares, its funny and dope!
c: why isnt canibus battling as much?
- answer - because he's trying to show he can do more than that.. this is easily one of the better story/concept albums out there...
in conclusion... dope album... i love the concept.. and Bis comes off constantly whether he's telling stories or ripping the mic straight out... only a couple of average beats keep this from perfect status.
4.5/5
teecee:
4.5 for Canibus???????
Ok, Cliche, i am gonna be home Sunday morning so i'm coming oveer and this cd better be dopeness, Canibus' best ever. I've heard a lot of weird shit about this cd, but i will give it a chance. He better of stepped up his beats and actual song writing (i know he got the battle lyrics).
Thanx for the review.
Cliche:
man... seriously its a 4.5..... i love the whole story thing.. and he still has the raw lyrics while improving on his storytelling.. the only weak link is a few beats (like 3) and a couple of sub-par hooks...
AlerG:
i'm downloading it as we speak...i've been waiting for this cd for a long time...can't wait to hear it...ill let yall know what i think, peace.
AlerG:
this is hardly the cd full of dope rhymes, metaphores, and intelligence that i thought i was gonna receive...instead i got alot of corny choruses and even canibus trying to relate to the ladies like jay-z or timbaland would...there are some tight songs on here but they are weighed down by the corny...hate u 2 and luv u 2 have the same video game beat and they are terrible, a total 0/5 for both tracks, there is nothing good about them...i didn't like the whole shit behind the stan thing but it was interesting but less entertaining than what i was expecting, although i didn't want to hear it at all...stop smokin has a 'jigga what, jigga who' sound which seems like everyone is starting to use now, but it is terribly wack song...gotta get that doe uses a similar chorus to the macarena so you can expect little to nothing although canibus comes off decent on this one, but nothing memorable...ya teef iz yellow is a complete joke and i am now dumber for listening to it...C T.H.S. is not the greatest song but some of yall might like it...that's all the bad on the album...
now for the good...the rip off which is the second actual song on the cd and it's real tight and that is what i was expecting throughout the whole cd, great lyrics and a tight beat...a different vibe in l.a. is real nice, some chick on the chorus which i am really feeling and most of yall will too, canibus comes real nice on this track explaining how la is much different to the regular shit that he's used to...i gotta story to tell might be my favorite song on the cd, it's a heavy diss to the roc-a-fella camp, right away you can sense a jigga related song when you hear the heavy 70's sample kick off the song but the shit is real ill...lemme hear sumthin else is regular canibus spitten shit to all that brag about their fortune and money, i like this one cause it's like a shut the fuck up about your ice type shit with real nice lyrics and a decent chorus...r u lyrically fit would be classic bis if that c-4 dude didn't start the song, other than that the song is real nice...box cutter, this is the song that most of the canibus fans are feeling the most on this cd but i don't think it's the best but it does really compliment bis' style and flow, good beat as well...draft me is good, i don't like the dude featured in it, you also hear stan in it again but it ain't that bad cause he aint there for long, the guitar riff gets me goin but the chorus is stupid and cheesy...the outro to the cd might be the illest beat on the cd and he dont even rap over it, oh well maybe on a freestyle or somthin in the future...overall this is canibus' worst cd in hardcore bis fans opinion but others may like it better because of some of the corny shit that you hear on it...i will pick it up none the less cause it is still a bis cd to me...bis' level 3/5
everything else- maybe a 3.5/5 but i doubt it
peace.
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