Mixerr Album Reviews #194

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I am going to review D O A - Problem Child. This is real gangsta rap! Not for all you weak ass MC's out there!

This album/EP was released in 1994. D O A is 6 Feet (6 Feet Deep), Loc Da Smoka (Da Locsta'), and Darrell Malone (Loc Malone). D O A (Dead On Arrival) was a rap group out of Flint, Michigan in the early 1990's.
 This album album was released in 1993 on Darkside Records out of Flint. Also Deep Dark Productions and Deep Thought Productions!  Production is done by Da Locsta', 6 Feet Deep, and Randy Howard. This album has a bit of Old School flava to it.

This album/EP 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!



First song is Running Scared, which has heavy hitting distorted Grand piano notes with super hard bass. 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. Samples are Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love, Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive, Dr. John - Right Place, Kool and The Gang, and KRS-One.

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. If people would have taken more action and paid attention to what was happening with Flint, things would have been a lot different they are now!

The next song is Drugs. Here Loc Da Smoka 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!!


The next track is the title track Problem Child. Talks about how home is hell. No love. Born in the ghetto and raised in da guttah. Life's a mothafucka stayin' alive in hell as 6 Feet Deep put it. This shit is getting' ugly. It's not fair being broke for 6 Feet Deep.

Here 6 Feet talks a bout how the ghetto is a living nightmare. He makes a lot of references to his revolver gun. Loc Da Smoka was just a poor kid who never had much. Running wild through neighborhood and selling drugs as a problem child. Loc Da Smoka was raised to be a ruthless cold hearted individual while being in the ghetto. This track is killer!


The next song is I'm On Mah Feet. Here 6 Feet 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. It's about 6 Feet wanting to change his living situation.

The sixth track is Cruzn which samples Juicy - Sugar Free, Eazy-E - Boyz In The Hood, Smokey Robinson - Crusin', and Zapp - More Bounce To The Ounce. Cruzn with da homeboys and puffin' dat ganjah. This is the last track.

I rate this album/EP, Problem Child, 5/5*****!