This is Michael Mixerr. Today I am going to review the self-titled D O A album. This is real gangsta rap! Not for all you weak as MC's out there! This album was released in 1994. DOA is 6 Feet (6 Feet Deep) and Da Locsta' (Loc Malone). D O A (Dead On Arrival) was a rap group out of Flint, Michigan in the early 1990's. D O A released 2 EPs on cassettes called Marked For Death and Problem Child. This album, consists of the EPs Marked For Death and Problem, which D O A would go on to release later in 1994 on CD and cassette. D O A even got dissed by The Dayton Family! D O A even dissed The Dayton Family! Production is done by Da Locsta', 6 Feet Deep, and Randy Howard.
This album is SAMPLE CRAZY with Rock samples, Hip Hop/Rap samples, and Jazz samples. Think about artists such as Van Halen, Megadeth, Deep Purple, Bee Gees, Lonnie Smith, Bob James, KRS-One, Kool and The Gang, Eric B. and Rakim, Ice Cube, Ice T, MC Breed, Sly Stone, and Charles Mason. That's where some of the samples came from. Even movie samples are used! Think Roger and Me, Cheech And Chong's Still Smokin', Scarface, and My Cousin Vinny. Documentaries too. All that good shit!
Good luck trying to find this album because all of the D O A stuff goes for over $500!!!! D O A was slept on!
First song up is Running Scared, which has heavy hitting distorted Grand piano notes with super hard bass. Samples are Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love, Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive, Dr. John - Right Place, Kool and The Gang, and KRS-One. It's early in the morning and it's time to sell marijuana. 6 n da mornin' police on the dick. Now it's a dope raid. Time to leave the scene! Duckin' and dodgin' the 5-0. You get the idea. I like the heavy rock sample at the end.
The second song is My City's Going Down (Part 1). Samples from the Michael Moore documentary Roger And Me are used in this song. Flint at that time was gaining notoriety for a major violent crime center. Money Magazine had rated Flint one of the worst places to live in America in 1994. Ever since GM closed down their automobile manufacturing plants in Flint, Flint has gotten worse year by year. If people would have taken more action, things would have been a lot different. Here DOA talks about how rough Flint really is with all the violent crime, drugs, and political corruption. Nothing in Flint is getting better. There's only 4 police officers to cover every 2 blocks.
The next song is Drugs. Here Loc Malone and 6 Feet talk about how they got into doing drugs, drug trade, and the effects of drugs in general. This song samples BDP - Illegal Business, BDP - Love's Gonna Getcha, and Funkadelic. The bass is super sick!! DOA 4 Life!
The next track is Problem Child. Talks about how home is hell. No love. Born in the ghetto and raised in da guttah. Here 6 Feet talks a bout how the ghetto is a living nightmare. He makes a lot of references to his revolver gun. Loc Malone was just a poor kid who never had much. Running wild through neighborhood and selling drugs. The streets is packed real deep with gats. No fakeness here!
The next song is Poverty. Here D O A talks about the effects of poverty on children in the ghetto and what children will do to keep roofs over their heads. Such as selling dope, gambling, buying uzis, and using food stamps for other things besides food. 6 Feet talks about sniping niggaz at Flint Park in the Dark. Loc Malone is the getaway driver. The sixth track is Cruzn which samples Juicy - Sugar Free, Eazy-E - Boys In The Hoods, Smokey Robinson - Crusin', and Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce. Cruzn with da homeboys and puffin' dat ganjah. To My Mafakaz is a dedication song which samples Zapp - Freedom and Zapp - Dance Floor.
On If I Wuz A Police, Loc Malone (I'm sorry, Officer Loc) tells use what he would do if he was the police. Such as getting hydraulics for paddy wagon, free all the homies in jail, sell narcotics, ignore crime, arrest the real police, etc. Officer Loc makes a diss to Chief Woodrow Stanley. At the beginning of the song you can hear the opening intro theme for the TV show called COPS, which is called Bad Boys - Inner Circle. A Cheech and Chong movie sample is used also.
Ridin' High samples the song of the name by Faze-O. Love Track samples Zapp - Tut-Tut Jazz. This is a dedication track.
This song up next is My City's Going Down (Part 2). Samples from the Michael Moore documentary Roger And Me are used in this song. Here DOA talks about how rough Flint really is with all the violent crime, drugs, and political corruption. As I said before, Flint at that time was gaining notoriety for a major violent crime center. Ever since GM closed down their automobile manufacturing plants in Flint, the effect on Flint was absolutely devastating!!! Nearly more than half of the city of Flint is on welfare and food stamps. Crime in Flint continues to grow!
In The Jungle is a reggae fusion dancehall track where 6 Feet goes straight up Reggae with a Jamaican Belize flow. He's about how he lost his job, his wife, and his sanity. Here 6 Feet talks about the struggles of hustlin', starvation, and life. Living on the edge. Think early 70s funk and early 70s reggae! It would have been super crazy is Loc Malone had a Jamaican madd ill flow.
Payback is a diss song aimed at The Dayton Family.
I rate this self-titled, album 5/5*****!
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