Guerilla Maab "Year Of Tha Underdawgs" Review Print E-mail
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  Damn man, a whole double disc from the number one Maab! So do they keep the interest of the listener up for the close to 2 hours they keep going?

  "Dirty Southside" features Hawk and Chris Ward. All verses are cool as is the beat but it's the chorus that are the best part of this song, computerized voice of I don't know who signing over the chant "Dirty South Side"! Great album opener!

  "Everybody Wanna Know" has Trae and Dougie D tongue twisting, really a 2002/2003 beat! "Neva Gone Change" is a lot more laid-back but still with a pretty fast rhyme delivery. Like it, like it!

  "F.A.N. (Fake Ass Niggas)" is a really real song, pretty up-tempo in a cool way! "I'm Known To Get Fly" continues the high quality they sat when the album began. You might think I talk a little bout each song, but hey I want it to be known, the songs speak for em self. The quality they have is remarkable. Their high lowest level of delivery is already well known, if you don't know better ask somebody! Plus we dealin with a double album here!

  "Hatin My Song" features Z-Ro, great to hear em flow together again, no beef here peoples. "Ain't No Nigga Like Me" also features Z-Ro. However the small Rock element to the beat could have been left out. Your head will be noddin still! The rock guitar ain't a too heavy tone!

  "Life As A Thug" is among the best songs from the Maab ever and for sure among the best on the album! Laid-back song with singing in the chorus and real tongue twisting over a dope beat!

  After that we get three bonus classics "Neva Give Up" featuring Peaches and Raw-D, "If You Wanna Know" featuring Peaches, Kerdro and Raw-D and also "Southside Story" featuring Hawk and Willean are all great tracks, especially the last of the three. Hawk is another really underrated rapper that should be talked about more for his strong delivery and skills.

  Now for the second disc, first of the title track featuring Z-Ro and Big T. A cool song! "Every One Of Y'all" is a bit slower but not in a bad sense at all. Both Trae and D stayed on point as far as delivering tight rhymes!
"Streets Got Ya" features T.C. and Shyna everybody involved with this track did their job in a good way, this is one of my personal favorites on the album, how bout you?

  "Who Dat" features ghetto vets Pharoah and Z-Ro and the fast rapping continues here. I especially like Pharoah's verse, and of course Z-Ro is always tight! Hell, I like all rappers here! "2 All You Hoes" ain't dedicated to the females especially - it's dedicated to all folks that been saying the Maab done lost what they had. This is another Top 5 song from the album, "on the real it's going down!"

  "See Me In My Casket" might feature Rakesh Jacobs best beat on the album, he did all tracks on the whole double CD anyway. A tough job. But this one really is on point, it's up-tempo in a good why!

  To end the album they have the song "Keep Watching Me" a song that feels summer time so to speak. They got ladies doing the back up vocals in a lovely way, and of course the fast phased lyrics that are their trademark is there. However not in a record breaking kind of tempo!

  Like I said to have 1 beat maker on a whole double CD is tough, you could easily fall into the trap of a tired sound, somewhere halfway it's understandable if the producer start to recycle his sound when he run out of ideas. But Rakesh took the challenge and did it good. Songs like "Leave The Game" and "Work Something" could be considered fillers, other then that you have many southern fried gumbo songs to have most southern rap fans satisfied after finish listening to the two discs/tapes. Maybe with a variation of producers and a small sharpening of the rhymes on some tracks they could have collected 5 stars but all in all it's a really great album. Not at all a disappointment! Pick it up today if you see it, you will be happy with your purchase, I'm positive you will!

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