First of, Slim
is probably my favorite New Orleans rapper today, he has always been true to his roots.
The blow up he got on No Limit Records with 1998's "Give It 2 Em Raw" (probably
the best No Limit album ever!) never made him act like a big star. He has always been that
Magnolia representer to count on. But sometimes even the people you trust the most to
deliver fire can let you down
First up the intro and then the title track "Years Later" on where Slim
talks about his past, present and future experiences and knowledge. Who's fake
who's real? An okay song that don't really move me too much, much due to the beat that
sounds somewhat tired.
"You Gonna Feel Me Now" might fix that small let down? Sorry, but this is
probably the worst song on the album. Slim's N.O. spitting is real but with a beat like
this one it's hard to come correct. He talks about Krazy and the new 504 Boyz, a small dis
maybe to some.
"Soulja Dat" is however pleasing all true Soulja Slim fans, and fans of
N.O. music! A real sinister beat with murderous delivery works out to the second best song
on the album. He spits "let's get one thing straight/Master P never took care of
me!" a sharp rhyme aimed directly at the ghetto Bill Gates.
Next up is by far the best song on the album,
and probably one of Slim's best songs to date, we have "Not My Dog" featuring
none other then B.G. yes former CMR rapper B.G.! It's lovely to hear a
"duet" between these firespitters. This is a true underground hit that should
get heavy rotation, turn this one up in your ride and let peeps now what's up!
"I Wanna Fuck" and "Highway" falls back into the trap of tired
beats that just don't do too much feel me? You have heard these beats many times
before if you listen to an average dose of southern rap. I would usually label these beats
filler tracks, and it's hard to do that with Slim but yes for the first time he delivered
an album with too many filler junts.
"Soulja Reebox" is okay with a
piano laced beat and acoustic drums, which at least works out to some kind of originality.
"Fuck You" features the Cutt Throat Committee which of course is Slim's
rap fam as well as his new record label - this is the first release from the new label.
Street lingo delivered over a bouncy bass heavy beat. What's funny about this one is that
it also features Curren$y The Hot Spitter - the new No Limit soldier. So at the same time
that Slim send out small messages to P and them he got the New No Limit featured on here!
Curren$y in my eyes took the place that Slim left when he left the label so
it's kind of nice to hear em together, if only we had gotten a more original beat!
I'm sorry to say it, but "Bubble Gum Game" is also a somewhat mediocre
rap song, it's not the worst ever, it's just average. But when we have so many albums to
chose from and most of us can't buy em all we can't afford to buy an album that's just
average and this song falls under that category!
"Love Me, Love Me Not" is better, it's promising and has a guitar laced
beat that you surely could feel. "Either you love me, or you love me not/I'ma be
me/I'm known for making promises that I can't keep
" goes the chorus and that's
nice!
"Best West Shit" refers to the smoke Slim got introduced to by Snoop Dogg
in 98, if you listen to the lyrics that's what he say. It's an ode to both chronic and in
some way Snoop and the west coast.
"Damn Cutt Throat" ends the album
in a way that has been done during many other songs on the album, the most original
element to the song is that one member of Cutt Throat spits his verse in French I believe
it is. So should you big it up?
Well, Soulja Slim as a rapper has released two previous albums. "Give It 2 Em
Raw" which is an unquestionable classic. "The Streets Made Me" which is one
of the best No Limit albums on this side of the new millennium and now this. It hurts to
say it but this ain't the album to spend your cheese on. I love Slim as a storyteller from
a street perspective, he always deliver street game from a hustlers point of view. He
don't floss and shine on his records but this albums lacks great beats, most of em are
beats he should have turned down before the final mixing of em if he aimed at another
classic album. So pick up the previous ones and be on the look out for Slim's next album
instead which should be really dope! |