Mixerr Album Reviews #224

This is Michael Mixerr. Today I am going to review D O A - Problem Child (demo). This is real gangsta rap! Not for all you weak ass MC's out there! I made some errors on the last DOA album review. So I will fix the Problem Child EP review here.



This album/EP was released in 1993. D O A is 6 Feet (6 Feet Deep), Loc Da Smoka, and Darrell Malone. D O A (Dead On Arrival) was a rap group out of Flint, Michigan in the early 1990's. 
This album has a bit of Old School flava to it with that Flint Town sound.(Heavy bass with gangsta rap and old school hip hop along with R&B/Soul.)

This album/EP is SAMPLE CRAZY with Rock samples, Hip Hop/Rap samples, and Jazz samples. Even movie samples are used! Documentaries too. Think Roger and Me. 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 next 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 then they are now! 



The next song is Look Whut It Dune To Me. 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 and BDP - Love's Gonna Getcha.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 My 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. Malone is the getaway driver. It's based on the success of a drug kingpin.



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*****!