Mixerr Album Reviews #2,343

A-Love - Commin' From The Hub is one of the most underrated and under-appreciated Compton rap albums laced heavily with some tight dope G-Funk sounds over gangsta rap. The album uses some of the dopest G-Funk synths to the point where you thought this album would be produced by DJ Battlecat, Dr. Dre, or Dangerous Records. Black Jason produced the whole album for Gotcha Bakk Records in 1995. The album was an accurate description of everyday life on the Eastside of Compton, California. Subjects range from the quest for survival, partying, socializing, fun, and gangsta rap.

Today this album is real rare and is considered to be a collectors item. The album usually sells for hundreds of dollars when sold online.

 
Let Your Nuts Hang is a dope posse cut which featured Bangin’ On Wax members and Underworld Connection (UWC) members such as Sin Loc, Ghostt, Big Jay, Six Million, Blue Ragg, and Arm Robbery. A-Love, Black Jason, and Big Jay are the tightest. The funky diluted bass and bells are what stand out besides the lyrics.

Sin Loc starts off the song with the classic lyrics “I’m hanging like nuts sweating in the gym”. Niggas are already looking shady. Suckers try and flex. These hardcore rhymes past the limit. Hardcore rhymes break ground. Raps are original. So fuck a gimmick.

Here comes Ghostt. Another bitch coming from the Eastside of Compton. Ghostt is a motherfuckin’ G up in her city. Never showing any pity. How the fuck does she come? Like bullets from a gun. Sha-bang! She is just another wicked menace to society.  So come and taste her flavor. She’ll give you the whole Eastside. So take cover and peep game. If you want to be down with her, you have to let your nuts hang.

It’s the Brain Gone Click coming at your ass. Creeping through the woods with a shank and a hockey mask. You better watch your ass. Black Jason is a murderer on a killing spree. He’ll kill your whole family. A total psycho is what he is. Beware of him during the midnight hour. Niggas don’t understand Black Jason as he kills competition. He washes them down with a 40 oz. Black Jason is unpredictable.


Commin' From The Hub was the buzz single and title track for this album. The classic song illustrated life on the Eastside of Compton. The quest for survival. There is a Bay Area feel to these beats. The bass lines sample I’m High by Spice 1. The song was produced by CPD10. Pebbles is the homegirl on the background vocals.

12 o’clock on the dot is when A-Love bends corners in his hood in his blue Cadillac. He hits the switches in his blue Cadillac to go into 3 wheel motion on Greenleaf Boulevard. Next he takes a drink. The next place he goes to is a liquor store called Big Time Liquor. Some friends of his is what he saw at Big Time Liquor when he stopped by. A girl gets picked up along the way. A-Love goes dipping and flossing down Long Beach Boulevard in the Compton streets.

Packing a strap for survival to maintain is a way of life in Compton. Compton streets are no joke. People struggle to survive out there. You are a goner if you give up. You could lose your life bending corners in your car in his city. There ain’t no love in Compton. The lyrics “if you give up you’re a goner” serve as a cautionary warning to not give up on life in Compton.

Every day is a different day. And every day A-Love grabs a different gat with a different clip. He is making amends with the mind of a hustler. He breaks people off knowledge because he is no buster. They know he’s got the money as he’s up to no good. Doing the bump and grind real slow. He’s got the honeys jockin’. It’s an every day thing on the Eastside of Compton. Hitting switches in his blue Cadillac.

Big Jay is hitting switches in his drop top 64 Chevy on these city streets. His drop top 64 Chevy sits on gold Dayton rims. Flossing on hoes is an everyday thing for him. That was something he did in the past.

Growing up in Compton is no easy task. You will always have the jackers ready to get your ass. So look out for them. Keep your hand on the strap as you’re dipping through the hub. Everybody is trying to get paid up in the Hub City. Take this as a lesson.

Then Big Jay went to the liquor store and got himself a 40 O (40 oz) and a blunt for his endo (marijuana). He continued on with his day after he left the liquor store.


Black Jason, Big Jay, and A-Love put in work lyrically on the song called It's Like That. This is one of the darker gangsta rap tracks off the album. The song will remind you of the dark G-Funk song The D.O.C. - 4 My Doggz.

It’s the Brain Gone Click coming at your ass. So hit the grass. The phrase “So hit the grass!” is a reference to that sticky green marijuana. A-Love is going out of his mind. Niggas don’t trust him. He might snap and kill your family. The problem is himself. He needs help. Straight gone in the mind and he is already losing his grip.  The world’s a trip. It’s like that.

They always said A-Love would never make it in society. So don’t try to fool him. He spent the last 10 years drinking out of 40 oz. alcoholic bottles. He tries to find himself as he sits on the dock of the bay. Who knows what will happen next in his life.


Eastside Funk is funky gangsta rap track backed a funky electric guitar over a handful of collected vocal samples. The song uses samples from these songs.: Zapp - Heartbreaker, Leon Haywood - I Wanna Do Something Funky To You, The Eagles - Hotel California, and C-Ordell - Swangin.

Eastside Funk is one of the lesser known songs from A-Love. A-Love and his friends along with other rappers give love to the Eastside of Compton.

C-Note aka Danny Gyrl throws down one of the most hardest yet funky lyrics during her verse which is at the beginning. All g’s give her respect as she rolls through the LBC which is Long Beach, California. Can’t no motherfucker escape her.

A-Love just boarded of a plane at the LAX Airport after coming from a trip in Atlanta, Georgia. He calls his homies to pick him up and he heads back to his stomping grounds on Atlantic Drive. A ragtop 64 Chevy on Dayton rims arrives. The Underworld Shack is where he dipped to next. He is glad to be back home in Compton, California.

The last verse from Low Bottom Hustlers is the dopest verse. Low Bottom Hustlers is LBH which is a Crip set on Atlantic Drive for those who did not know. Some of them came from Elm Street. Guess who stepped up in the place? It’s the Low Bottom Hustlers hitting you up with all that Eastside Funk in your face. Who wants to get down with the g’s from Low Bottom Hustlers? Low Bottom Hustlers are known for putting in much work.
 
I rate this album 5/5*****!!