Mad Mone - The Maddening is a mad ill hip hop/rap album that was released in 1997 on cassette only. It’s rare treat to hear anything from Lansing rap because hardly any hip hop/rap comes from Lansing, Michigan. This album is perfect for any rap heads looking for something away from the mainstream or radio. It is perfect underground rap. Mad Mone sounds very much similar to Too $hort and Ron C. In fact he is the Lansing Too $hort.
The intro is a mad ill hip hop/rap introduction that uses a selection of live instrumentation. The intro was recorded on a live set in the studio hence the live band backing the track. The beats are super dope. You see, the intro introduces us to “The Maddening” as the album begins. The intro incorporates soul into rock music.
Yo, kid! This album is ill! He wants you to buy his album. Mad Mone comes straight out of the Mitten State. Nobody does it like Mad Mone!
Is This Life uses dark heavy guitar notes and processed beats. The guitar notes are very dark and are filled with resonance.
Mad Mone has been working these streets very hard and now he wants a fatter cut of profit. He’s making moves in the game. He needs weed to proceed. However his eyes get red. Mad Mone describes himself as the neighborhood Godfather. Alcoholics and fiends keep calling for the product that he holds.
Mad Mone wonders is this life worth living? He also wonders who will teach game to his children when he is deceased. Mad Mone takes more than he is given. Blood might spill due to the way he is feeling.
The block is hot and Mad Mone has stashes in many different places. Fuck the sheriff who is trying to send him into Mason Jail. At this rate Mad Mone is across the globe. So how could they catch him? He’s laying down the law now. The streets are his battleground where you can get fucked up for selling weed. This is how he operates because he is dangerous.
Scandalous Baby Momma is a scandalous brash song about the baby drama in the Lansing area. It’s the usual man-cheating, baby mama drama on this song.
She was his one and only even with all these other shorties up on him. But he paid no attention to him as it was her that he was missing. They used to puff Ls at night. He wanted her every day. In fact, he would kill for her. They got place together. She had his kids.
It turns out she didn’t love him. He was surprised when she ran games on him. He was starting to feel misused by her. You’re trying to make ends meet when you’re in love. She was all he was seeing in his future. How did he get mixed up with this Puerto Rican girl? He now has many regrets. He’s thinking that she’s freaking every weekend. Mad Mone is about to grab the Chrome 1 to commit suicide.
His baby momma got him stressed out. Sometimes he wonders he got mixed up with her. He now regrets dating her.
Days and months pass. And now they are back to talking on the phone. Mad Mone is steady being dogged out by his peers. The kinds need a man in their life. Mad Mone started talking badly about his baby momma. So she had the law lock him up. She was happy to see him locked up. The women play with his emotions way too much. Mad Mone learned his lesson. Never catch a domestic abuse case.
Cash Rules is a track all about how cash rules everything around us. Cash rules and talks. It’s all about money. Mad Mone must have been influenced by the Wu-Tang Clan song C.R.E.A.M. when recording this song. Mad Mone been working these streets. He’s making moves in the game.
Cash Rules uses the sample of Bootsy Collins - I’d Rather Be With You. Soul rap is a term which can accurately used to describe this song.
Lansing Thugnutz is a track laced with a funky bass line pounding your speakers and funky beats with a country touch. Dope and funky are terms that can be used to describe this track.
Mad Mone is on some do or die shit on the track Lansing Thugnutz. He is in vengence mode ready to fight anyone. He is ready to empty out the clips. So haters stay back! The song is good enough to have you stepping or dancing. Lansing is where they make things happen.
The Letter has a Spanish vibe to it due to the guitar playing in the background. The guitar is on a looped track. A Nas sample is used throughout the track. The beat is much louder than the vocals. The song has an East Coast hip hop and rap vibe and touch to it.
Only downside is that the beat is much louder than the vocals which makes it difficult for the listener(s) to hear the vocals. The volume on these vocals are reduced down too much.
The days are shorter and the nights are colder. He’s feeling like life is over. A theme of sadness is felt. Mad Mone says it’s kind of lonely. He smokes blunts to keep his mind off sad reality. He describes the city of Lansing as the city of Gothom. Mad Mone is putting in studio time to make these hits. The song is described as a personal letter from Mad Mone.
Story is a song about a 13 year old hustler with cash who did a lot of crazy things. He had a lot of fancy things such as expensive material things. He drove a fast car but didn’t have a license. Indictment was not on his mind. Mad Mone tried to give the kid advice to slow down. He didn’t want to listen. Now this kid had mad cash and gold links around his neck.
Last week he purchased a Tec-9 machine gun. This kid is rolling hard with a crew he doesn’t trust. All of them have weapons and cocaine. It is suggested that he is selling drugs. The kid sells a variety of drugs.
Mad Mone tried to tell if he didn’t cool his shit down that he would be dead. The Feds are fucking with his head. They already obtained a search warrant to his mother’s house. However luck runs out as the kid is killed that very day. Mad Mone tried to warn him but he didn’t listen.
Now Mad Mone is sitting in the kitchen with his mother. His body is missing. The situation is twisted. His mother had a heart attack and the case was thrown out of court.
W.A.R sounds very similar to an Eminem song or a song that Dr. Dre produced due to its production sound and its thin fast beats. The beats are thin and the bass is medium. The cymbal kit used sounds very similar to a Dr. Dre produced song.
The Get High Theme samples Mtume - Juicy Fruit. Mad Mone made a good choice by choosing Mtume - Juicy Fruit to sample from. Juicy Fruit is an appropriate song to get stoned to. Strip 2 Yo Azz samples the bass line to a Cypress Hill song. This song heavily relies on bass.
I rate this album, The Maddening, 5/5*****!
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