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