WELCOME TO: OUR HOUSE

WELCOME TO: OUR HOUSE

This is what we will be talking about tonight.

Lyrical Punch: 9/10(When you have 4 lyrical geniuses all on one album ..It’s not just a punch; it is a lyrical KNOCK OUT! ;) )

Instrumentals: 8/10(Porter..Swizz...Boi-1-da...J.U.S.T.I.C.E league. You couldn’t ask for more)

Overall:8.5/10 (I will be pointing out a major flaw soon)

ALBUM COVER:

What you see here is horror house..and that is what basically these dope emcees have displayed

Lyricism on this LP can perhaps even rival Shady’s lyrics

And after being signed to Shady Records their stupid skills have reached a new height, well it is obvious isn’t it, when you rap alongside Eminem you get noticed by 10x more people than you would otherwise reach to and as HIPHOPDX  put it best “Slaughterhouse is in a prime position to take advantage of the things Shady Records has to offer on "welcome to: OUR HOUSE" and not succumb to any pitfalls.”

Well let us not go into the internal politics of a record label and how Slim Shady might have been the “BOSS” of the album.

I will go straight into the Intro of this album, produced by Eminem.and the video believe me is no less than a horror movie trailer, it is “eerie” and “creepy”  and it has done an excellent job at being that.

After that a straight 'no fucking around' track “Our House” hits us with an intro by Eminem a chorus by Skylar Grey (that chick can do it real good) and awesome verses by Royce Joell and Crooked I, I am not sure where Joe Budden was...Although this has happened many times throughout their career…There have been times when one of them hasn’t rapped...Anyways...Moving on to the next...Song is Coffin featuring Busta Rhymes ,although the beat goes hard this song is pretty much skip-able because Busta Rhymes brings in none of his lyrical magic and Slaughterhouse have been at their usual best..next Throw That..is full of cheesy sex talks and nothing out of it appeals to us(even though it has the real slim shady on it)

Next comes Hammer Dance, one of my favorites. Beat by Araab Musik is enough to keep you on track for first 20 seconds after which after Joell Ortiz takes over with “my real name my rap shit, no made up nigga ,I’m straight up nigga, still in the projects where I came up nigga”

The hook on this one was probably the best one I have heard from this group

My next favorite has to be Get Up with an inspiring message and the hook “How fast are you gonna get up ?” sounds great with …..again..the real and mind-blowing lyricism by the whole group

Throw It Away is a cute one with an excellent video to it and ofcourse Swizz Beats and Porter have combined on this one..It has bound to be good !

All other tracks have been ordinary except for the emotional track Goodbye (trust me, it is realer than most things real )

Rescue Me has a Skylar Grey hook which has nothing  new in it than what she did on I Need A Doctor.

Die is a good song…period

All in all an awesome album to hear over and over again and not get tired because it is packed with such dense lyricism that you will always have something new to learn about the group every-time you plug in and play the tracks

Eminem has done the final mix and post-production process of the WHOLE album by himself..sounds like a lot of work..but it has paid off ! :)

The only flaw I found in this album was that the album doesn’t go anywhere..It is not a straight line heading in one direction..it is more like a maze and Slaughterhouse have picked subjects at random to rap about, even within songs the rappers have different things to say which might sometimes disconnect the audience. Which is ironic if you have heard songs like “Sound Off” “The One” “Microphone” and “Rain Drops” where in within the song one rapper picks up from where the other left off

This may have come out as a by-product of having five (Eminem was involved heavily) different minds gangbanging on one poor beat…Who knows.

Songs that might make it to your iPod:

(The whole album is dope )

1.   Hammer Dance (must have)

2.   Throw It Away

3.   Goodbye

4.   Die

5.   Frat House

Food&Liquor II

Food and Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1

This is what we will be talking about tonight. This is a heart to heart review. So I will skip the technical details and jump right into it 

 Lyrical Punch:7/10

Instrumentals:6/10

Overall:6/10

ALBUM COVER:   

Yes..I am not joking..that IS the album cover..funny huh ? 

Well, no one really knows why Lupe selected that as the album cover and what was the idea (or the lack of it) behind it. 

Well once you get past the album cover bum....you are greeted with a rather full of rap Intro

that is the first song..1.Ayesha Says (Intro) ..and believe me the chick who is freestyling over the mic really knows her shit because her rhymes are full of knowledge and you might slap me for saying this but I have heard a couple o Nicki Minaj freestyles..but this chick hits nicki minaj out the park..

that being said..The second song 2.Strange Fruition is pathetic..slow confusing instrumentals only add to its misery. BUT..this song has a good message..it opposes racism. this song gives what is Lupe's trademark..black power..and delivers a whole bunch of em believe me..here is an excerpt of the lyrics "You forced us in the ghetto and then you took our dads,” he refuses to take part in it, “So I can’t shed blood on any battlefield of yours,”

He is talking about how people are forced to join armies and the "ghetto" part is pretty self-explanatory 

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3.ITAL) this third song has a sick instrumental, lyrics stick to the script.enough said

4.Around My Way.) This was the first single released off the album. It has a good instrumental and Lupe puts really good lyrics on the plate here. he goes a little hard when he says "And we marvel at the state of heart of man
Then turn around and treat Ghana like a garbage can
America’s a big motherfuckin’ garbageman
If you ain’t know, you’re part and parcel of the problem
You say no you ain’t, and I say yes you is
Soon as you find out what planned obsolescence is
You say no they didn’t, and I say yes they did
The definition of unnecessary-ness
Manifested"

I like rappers who say what they want without worrying about censorships and other stuffs :) 

 His 5th song Audobon Ballroom is not even worth mentioning

6.Bitch Bad

This was the second single released off the album and probably this song is the most unique of the album

the album talks about how girls do things they shouldnt at an early age due to the uncensored knowledge they recieve through the internet and how parents should take more care as to what their kids are exposed to

Good Work Lupe (y) 

the next few songs kind of fall out of the cd and are easily missed/deleted/filtered because to be frank they are not as appealing as  the top ones are

Dont get me wrong. Lupe has done a sincere lyrical work in all the following tracks as well and the rhymes are good, internal rhymes punchlines puns and metaphors everything is present..BUT..nothing sticks to you, this album wont be remembered in your brain's lyrical database (I've always thought our brain had one)

Even the insturmentals dont combine with your soul if you know what I mean

That being said..It was a good  first album to hear and to review :)

Songs that might make it to your iPod:
1.ITAL
2.Bitch Bad
3.Around My Way
 

My Rendezvous with HipHop

So, as a start up this post wont be very long. I dont like to beat around the bush too much I will just be briefly speaking about my encounter with hiphop. My journey with HipHop started rather strangely..my interest in music itself started late in around 7th grade. I started listening to Sean Paul..(my first favorite reggae artist) and here is when I made my first mistake..I percieved the music made by sean as hiphop music..pretty dumb I know..but hey..it was my learning curve When I realised (through wiki ofcourse) that sean is a reggae artist..that is when I grew curious about hiphop..sure I had heard many Jay-Z Rihanna songs being played on VH1 and MTV but i wasnt really paying attention to mvs at that time so I was still pretty much in the dark. Then I heard some of my school friends blabbering lyrics in fast speed..I asked them what they were doing..they said we are reciting "beautiful" i was like.."whaat?" Then they explained about the song called Beautiful made by Eminem And that was it...the door to hiphop was now wide open First came Eminem..with him came Beautiful...then Lose Yourself..then Mockingbird..then full albums..then the branch split into Jay-Z and lil wayne..then their albums..then more and more...until I had not 1 not 10 but 300+ HipHop albums I had the 80s the 90s the double os the 2010-2011-2012s...you name it..I even had a vast library of undergound stuff Yes.."had"..unfortunately coz my desktop used to get corrupt a thousand times I had to format everything and in that procedure..mamy of my rare shit has been displaced..but anyways I am making a new library now..fresh music. Fresh faces..and this is why I have made this blog. In the following blog I will be posting reviews about all the albums I will be hearing and I hope you all like my recommendations. There will be posts about new artists too..forgive me but MY style of review is to always compare with the old so if I compare 2 chainz's lyrical flow to that of Cage or Big L..please dont hate. So anyways let me end this with a rather dramatic overused line STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES! :)