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Soulja Slim "The Streets Made Me" Review |
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Fresh out of jail, No Limit's Soulja Slim comes out
with his second album, "The Streets Made Me", which is 21 songs, more than half
of which are entirely done by Slim and his producer- a true "solo" album.
The album starts strong, with an intro that sounds like it could be called "From What
I Was Told 2001", but instead is just called "Intro". Slim immediately
keeps the pace moving from this track to the album's lead single, "Get'cha Mind
Right", where he proclaims: "One lonely soulja I be / The last real soldier
still with Master P"
Despite a strong start, that includes the anti-caucasian inspired "Soulja 4
Life", the album quickly makes its plunge into mediocrity. There are few bad songs on
the album, but generally speaking, most of the songs are average. Between track 5,
"I'm A Fool", which is the song after "Soulja 4 Life", and track 20,
"Where They At", the only song that stands out in particular, is "Make It
Happen", which features label-mate Krazy. While backed by a fairly respectable team
of production, the production for Slim's album was passable at best, and lazy at worst.
Slim brought heat to most tracks, but they were average beats to begin with.
The shining star of the album however, was the last song, "Can't Touch Us".
Older No Limit fans would love to see a return to the "Soulja Songs" of years
past, and "Can't Touch Us" is right on par with many of the other greats. Slim,
Master P, Silkk, Slay Sean, and Afficial handle the vocals, while Krazy does the hook, and
veteran Carlos Stephens laces the incredibly tight piano beat. Everybody does their part
on this song- Silkk doesn't even ruin it- and this song ends up as a great way to end an
average album.
Slim showed on this album that he can still bring heat to a track, and that he can do it
virtually on his own, but he needs his producers to get more inspiration for his own
projects, if he wants to step them up to the level that they should be at. |
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