After checking out a number of Quik projects over the last few weeks, I think I can say that I'm not a big fan of his solo work. This one just comes and goes too much for me. A light 3/5.
Beats: ★★★
Rapping/Bars: ★★★
Hooks: ★★★
Best Tracks: Put It on Me, Get Loaded, Murda 1 Case, Sex Crymee, Oh Well/Out
This is a consistently enjoyable album, but like I say in a lot of reviews of albums hovering around a 3/5, not enough, if anything, is great enough to push this rating up. Wais P sounds like somewhat like Crooked I and I assume Dame produced all of these songs that have some familiar samples. There is a good mixture of sounds from bangers like 'Level Up' to more soulful production with 'None of These'. It's worth giving it a try.
Beats: ★★★
Rapping/Bars: ★★★☆
Hooks: ★★★
Best Tracks: Pimps Prayer, B4 I Leggo, None of These, Level Up
This is such a tease of a 'heist film'. Nothing happens for most of this movie. Selma is there for eye-candy in nearly every scene where the camera pans on her parts, or she is stripping and what-not. Too much time is spent on her and Pierce's character getting used to and arguing over being retired. We get it already!
The movie is not incredibly boring, which is a feat when you consider the lack of plot and the aspects that could have been developed more like the final heist, the tycoon/gangster aren't.
A decent boom bap, gangsta/conscious rap album from Teflon, a long time M.O.P. affiliate, who was going to release a collaborative album with Premo in 2005, but things didn't work out. This is an easy album to play and let spin from front to back, but nothing is groundbreaking. M.O.P. feature on three songs and produce four, so you can kind of know what to expect from that if you know M.O.P. but Teflon isn't the same kind of hardcore spitta.
Beats: ★★★
Rapping/Bars: ★★★
Hooks: ★★★
Best Tracks: My Will, Get Mine, Rise Up
I like this more than his more jazzy previous album, 'Rhythm-al-ism'. The production is more likeable overall, he sounds more like himself and the lyrics aren't as sexually cringe. Like some of his previous albums I've spun, I couldn't say any track wows me, but it's enjoyable from front to back. 'U Ain't Fresh' sounds very much like an Erick Sermon production. I'm surprised he isn't the producer of that one. 'Speak On It (Club Mix/Dirty Version)' is the one song that gets boring here.
Best Tracks: Change da Game, We Came 2 Play, Pitch In OnA Party, I Don't Wanna Party Wit U, How Come?, U Ain't Fresh (Club Mix), Do Wutcha Want, Do I Love Her? (Dirty Version/Club Mix)