Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 was another gangsta rap album from San Antonio, Texas that got overlooked due to a lack of promotion and limited distribution. The album has such a brash thuggish lyrics with a street-savvy mentality. This whole album is aggressive in nature and style. Topics on this album range from prostitution, drug dealing, hustling, and other criminal activity.
The album also features Nino, Lil Sin, Lady Lunatic, Tosha T., Mr. Geto, DRE, SAOG Family, West Side Thugz, and Tear Drop make an appearances. This album released on Hunt Dawg Records in 2000 on CD and cassette formats.
Some of the songs on this album such as Too Thuggish 4 U, C What I C!, Do U Feel?, Geto Gangzta Part 2, Survival Of Tha Hustler (Remix), Too Far Gone (Remix), and Hommiez Gone were produced by Ricé at his studio called Music Box Studios when it was located in his trailer at Westhill Mobile Home & RV Park on Pinn Road in Southwest San Antonio. That is why you can hear his sound on various parts of this album.
Chilly D – Too Thuggish 4 U: 2000 is one of the most overlooked gangsta rap albums from San Antonio, Texas and is Chilly D’s second album. All of Chilly D albums are overlooked and overpriced. His albums sell for astronomical prices when sold online.
However the album is not as good as his debut album due to the lack of Ricé’s presence in production, lyrical content, and number of guest artists featured. Here are the factors as to what led this album to not be as much of a classic underground hit as his debut album.
•Some of the guests artists of the SAOG Family aren’t exactly the best lyricists or rappers on the mic. The number of guest artists featured is a lot and lets us know that Chilly D can’t necessarily hold down his own weight on his tracks as a rapper.
•Most of the lyrical content and subject matter is nothing new. Many rappers have spoken about drugs and crime. That is nothing new.
•Ricé was not as “hands-on” with this album as he was with his debut album a few years earlier in 1997. Ricé had his hands on producing so many other albums for San Antonio rap artists at the time also. That’s why he only produced 6 out of 16 songs on this album. Hunt Dawg produced the rest.
•The lack of promotion was another factor that led this album to be not as good as his debut album.
Too Thuggish 4 U serves as the intro and opener. The intro serves a memoir and biography of Chilly D which tells us about his time in the county jail to the penitentiary and the story of his life basically. Chilly D projects his hostility towards the world on this song. Ricé arranged and produced the beats.
He can’t quit living a criminal lifestyle. He got into a life of crime and became a victim when his mother moved into the Rigsby Courts housing projects on the East Side of San Antonio. (Although Chilly D claims Rigsby Courts on the East Side, he has ties with the West Side with Alazan Apache Courts.) So he grew up with hopelessness feeling helpless. What do you expect when someone grew up around criminals, convicts, addicts, and drug dealers? He’s been around fiends all his life.
It’s not a fairytale. He tells stories about the darker side of life. Time waits for no one and that’s the price we pay. G’s are brought up into the world and G’s leave every day. We deal with the issues in life either way without a doubt. Haters can’t keep his name out of their mouth. The OG TX Hustler Chilly D is taking over the San Antonio streets for 2000.
Too Far Gone (Remix) is a remix of the 1997 track Too Far Gone. The volume was adjusted to a higher level on this remix. The song was the anthem for San Antonio for 5 short years. In this song Chilly D talks about how his hood (Rigsby Courts) is living large and coming up.
At the beginning of the song is where Chilly D lists housing projects and neighborhood that are too far gone. Read these lyrics as an example, “Rigsby Courts is just too far gone. East Terrace is just too far gone. Ain’t no turnin’ back. Wheatley Courts is just too far gone.”
Chilly talks about how he got the streets of San Antonio sowed up. Ya’ll can’t stop this fool for banging the red and blue (Bloods and Crips). He’s got his dope (drug products) selling on the corners. Watch yourself when you come into his projects. There are bad people lurking there. Rigsby Courts is living large and coming up. Hitting lick after lick. People have to get paid.
Hustle On was another classic in San Antonio rap that was overlooked by many in the state of Texas. San Antonio rap legend was on a verse for this song and so was Lady Lunatic of Suthern Merchandise (Southern Merchandise). The song has a slow tempo which follows a single beat over some low quality synths. Hustle On is about getting your business straight whether illegal or legal.
No one can fade Chilly D now. His hustle is on a come up. He’s got what it takes in a hard knock life. Chilly D is able to regulate his hustle and organized crime. People didn’t expect San Antonio to shine in the music industry and rap game as they are on their way to the top. Chilly D claims to be one of the best in the industry. (At least for San Antonio.) New customers come every day. They care how tough they are in Texas.
Lil Sin came from nothing. Now he is rolling with a pistol. He is cutting down busters. His left hand is on his chrome handgun. Get your hustle on. Don’t be scared to bring your shit out the back door. Mr. Po Po, why you moving slow? Lil Sin is trying to make a clean getaway by going out of the window. Him and Chilly D are kings of the East Side. Ya’ll niggaz in the game aren’t ready for Lil Sin. So get your hustle on if it’s necessary.
Hustle on. People go for broke in San Antonio. Lady Lunatic be posted up at Alazan Apache Courts on the West Side getting ready to bust raps, rhymes, and lyrics. Lady Lunatic is going to represent. We gon’ ball til we fall.
Ever heard of survival of the fittest? Well that is what the song Survival Of Da Hustla (Remix) about. Survival of the most fit hustlers set on making the most amount of money in the drug game while involved in organized crime. The song is all about coming up and making the most money. So get your hustle on.
Survival Of Da Hustla is wordplay on the term ‘survival of the fittest’. Chilly D put his own twist on the term ‘survival of the fittest’ and turned that into Survival Of Da Hustla. That is how this song came about.
Chilly D pays homage and respect to legendary gangsta rap group PKO during the beginning in this song. The lyrics “I give love to PKO who put my hood on” are paying respect to PKO. You don’t get that sort of respect in rap anymore which is very sad.
Hunt Dawg Records is coming up and can’t be stopped. Chilly D’s label is surely to be the next best thing for San Antonio, Texas whether people like it or not.
C What I C! gives us details on the viewpoints of Chilly D’s perspective about life. Is this world ready for Chilly D? I don’t think so. Ricé plays a funky guitar on the song.
Geto Gangzta Part 2 was produced by Hunt Dawg and not Ricé as people would have you believe. Hunt Dawg was an in-house producer for Chilly D’s Hunt Dawg Records label who produced Geto Gangsta. This song about ghetto life and is a representation of ghetto life.
I rate this album 3/5***.
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