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CRIMINAL MANNE "PLAYSTIME'S OVER" ALBUM REVIEW

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Reviewer: Dead Eye
Rating: 4.5 stars

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 Oh Boy! Get back, cause Criminal Manne is back and he needs the room! This album been out for a few weeks and every time I play it it blows me away! Now of course itīs on Mo Chedda Records with DJ Squeeky doing all tracks. If you in to Criminal Manne, or Mo Chedda or Squeeky - better yet if you in to Memphis rap period youīll love this new album!

  First song "Not No Mo" is the only track that Squeeky didn't produce entirely, Criminal helped out. Lovely piano laced beat and with rhymes like "Iīm so deep in this game my nigga Iīve dug a hole" you canīt go wrong! The chorus is got that old Three 6 trademark where they sample and scratch together old Criminal statements and rhymes, repeat em and get the chorus. Now I know that has not only been done by Three 6 but they sure was among the innovators. And since they donīt deliver the real underground sound no more, being platinum and all, itīs good to see Manne doing it!

  Then we have "Yean Know" and itīs jump bumpinī to the fullest. The whole album should get you crunk in no time. You get modern Memphis classics on here such as "Crim and Gangsta" featuring the king Gangsta Blac. After hearing em on Blacīs "Down South Flava" album I was waiting to see em again and here they are. Canīt decide which collab was done the best - itīs a draw! Matter of fact I could really see the two of them doing a whole album together cause they compliment each other so well. They both stand for a sound and flavor that so many of us miss. Sure the new Three 6 albums great, but going platinum and all do change a group/crew and aint nothing wrong with Paul and J trying new sounds but this album is just what we want to hear to the fullest!

  "Beautiful" is just that - beautiful! A lil bit more laid back then most of them tracks here. On that ballin tip, bbq type of song. He talks about what his life would be like if he could decide.

  "Not A Game" featuring Rap Hustlaz and Squeeky brings back the crunk sound to the album. They put it down real and uncut letting all know that "it ainīt a game kinfolk". All of them deliver "all-up-in-yo-face" lyrics with a heavy get buck element to the delivery!

  "Bout That Money" is on the right tip in my ears. You will find Manne sharing the mic with none other than Eightball & MJG! They all got their own flavor; Manne got that thug/crunk/hustler style, Ball is the ghetto poet and MJG the pimp. Itīs just cool to hear em together!

  "Stomp" features Yo Gotti, Mista Ian and Kingpin Skinny Pimp. And donīt be mad at me but yes itīs a great track. Tightest delivery is made by Skinny. I really hope he stay at the level he at, now donīt get me wrong I want him to receive all the money he can. But hopefully not with Priority or Universal, that wouldn't do his sound any good I think. Many rappers sound change when they go major. Thatīs why I want to give it up for Select-O-Hits for letting their rappers stay the way they are. They have distributed so many great albums over the years!

"47 Mob" ends the album and it donīt say whoīs rapping on it but itīs only great verses on here. A lil click song like it should be done!

  I know Iīve been talking about how lovely this album is and it sure is. Been bumpin it since it came out and canīt do nothing but give it up, once again, for Squeeky. He truly is one of the best producers in the game, one of the most underrated too but without a shadow of a doubt one of the best! Now I ainīt gonna say what they did on this album hasn't been done before, cause it has, but they brought back what weīve been missing. And some times thatīs just as good as coming with something totally new! I ainīt really heard any album I could bump all the way trough, not skipping one of the 21 songs, in a very long time thatīs why Iīm happy Criminal Manne delivered this crunk album!

 
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