Murphy Lee - Wine, Weed, & Women album review
Murphy Lee - Wine, Weed, & Women was released as a digital album that was actually a mixtape on the DatPiff mixtape streaming website in 2011. Murphy Lee himself offered this album as a free download. Wine, Weed & Women was hosted by UCME Entertainment, Derrty Entertainment, and Freaky Mascao.
Murphy Lee has something to offer as he has bars and concepts. He is not just another rapper. Murphy Lee is sick with his rhymes. Words he uses match with those lyrics of his unlike other rappers. He makes his words rhyme in his lyrics. Murphy Lee is the shit. As usual, he never fails to disappoint his dedicated fans regardless of age. Murphy Lee did his thing yet again as he is sick with his rhymes. People need to open their ears and broaden their horizons to support talent. One known accolade this album/mixtape received was in Delux Magazine. Murphy Lee - Wine, Weed, & Women was crowned Mixtape of the Week by Delux Magazine in January 2011.
For those who don’t remember or don’t know, he is a rapper from the famous St. Louis rap group collective The Lunatics who rose to fame in the early 2000’s. Murphy Lee represents St. Louis, Missouri (the STL). Murphy Lee is most known for his success in the rap group the St. Lunatics alongside Nelly. He’s still signed to Universal Records through the St. Lunatics group deal but signed himself to his own record company
I'M DAT WUTS DAT POPPN was the lead single for the Wine, Weed, & Women album which became a No. 1 hit online in 2011. The trap beats and sound are what lead this song to be a No. 1 hit online. He raps in his usual Midwest drawl. The beats are what make this song nice. I'M DAT WUTS DAT POPPN avoids using such boring, monotonous beats. He uses live instrumentation which is perfect.
Murphy Lee is sick with his rhymes. Listen to his creative lyrics at the 2:35 mark into the song.: “See I’m what’s poppin’/I’ve noticed that I’m the fuckin’ man/Say I’m the damn man, ma’am, Damn yes I am” You can’t get more creative than that when making words rhyme in the lyrics.
River Front Times considered the song "I'm Da Damn Man, Ma'am Damn, Yes I Am" to be irresistible. Murphy Lee is sick with his rhymes as he usually is. He makes words rhyme with each other such as “broads” and “drawers”. Take these following lyrics for example.:
Why they call you that?
I’ve got Gucci’s everywhere
I got Idahoes
Virginia broads
Trying to get you some?
Murphy Lee done got that drawers
Im Da Realist is a heavy percussion ridden song with hard hitting beats. The tom drums used are set to a loud volume setting and stand out with a loud presence. The hook is catchy but can get annoying real quick.
Im Da Realist is where Murphy Lee brags on how he is the realist rapper to run the rap game of St. Louis. He says he’s the realist to run it. He can run game to just about anyone. Rappers always say the same watered down rhymes to have crossover appeal into the pop market. Despite trying to cross over, their album sales are considered to be a flop. In some cases the song is hotter than the artist. Murphy Lee explains we all had to learn on our own at some point in life. Now it’s out of hand as rapper do not know what they are doing.
They B On Me is about how the ladies are all on Murphy Lee. With his first quarter million ($250,000), he bought a quarter pound of kush and a Mercedes Benz with a phone attached. Ladies be all up on Murph Derrty. Ladies get to flirting whenever he steps up into the club. Haters get to perpetrating. The whole VIP section is super freaky.
4/5****!
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Murphy Lee – Champs Sports Sampler album review
Murphy Lee – Champs Sports Sampler was an album Universal Records and Derrty Entertainment packaged together songs from Murphy Lee’s debut album from 2003. However the songs on this sampler are not full length songs but are instead snippets. Many of which are a minute and a half long. The Champs Sports Sampler was used to promote the Champs Sports store as Derrty Entertainment had a one-year venture deal with in 2003.
If your album sampler has the following catalog code of UNIR 21040-2, then your copy is legit and genuine. The catalog code of UNIR 21040-4 does not exist and is a bootleg.
Murphy Lee has something to offer as he has bars and concepts. He is not just another rapper. Murphy Lee is sick with his rhymes. Words he uses match with those lyrics of his unlike other rappers. He makes his words rhyme in his lyrics. Murphy Lee is the shit. As usual, he never fails to disappoint his dedicated fans regardless of age. Murphy Lee did his thing as he is sick with his rhymes. People need to open their ears and broaden their horizons to support talent.
Wat Da Hook Gon Be was another lead single which caught a short but moderate buzz on radio stations across the United States in 2003 as it was played nearly everywhere. The song featured catchy hooks and catchy beats. The catchy beats were produced by Atlanta producer Jermaine Dupri. Of course anything produced by Jermaine Dupri is surely going to be a hit. His banging beats are what’s needed to grab people’s attention.
Murphy Lee proves to us what goes up, must come down in the first verse as he calls out the player haters in lyrical form. Player haters are people who hate or just envious of another person’s success. It be them same old clowns that are player haters. Haters are only pretending they’re proud. They are constantly fronting until they get confronted. If you don't like whats going on, go listen to another song.
Murphy Lee keeps it St. Louis like Blues and Larry Hughes. He paid his dues. He’s not taking any shorts or losses. Murphy Lee don't need no fucking hook on this beat. All he needs is the track in the background.
In Verse 2, Murphy Lee raps about how he got his first car when he turned 16. Verse 2 also explains how he basically came from nothing to something.
He only drove his car to his home or outta town like limousines. Plus he was broke at the time. So he did what we had to do on Nelly’s Country Grammar album to sell. The sun will come out tomorrow and he will never have to borrow anything as he has a recording contract with a major label. Murphy Lee stays original by sticking to his own melodies and lyrics. That's how it is.
People are always saying, “Man it must be nice”. Not a simple “How's life?”. Understand the money's good but Murphy Lee is still from the hood. Expect a lot from him and you might get kicked. Murphy hints that he knows killers that will murder you and put you in a grave and thugs that will stomp you out.
You can catch Murphy Lee on your local radio station or in the studio doing vocals derrty style. Let the girls do him while you do you.
Champs Sports Middle serves as the interlude for this album sampler. The Champs Sports Middle interlude introduces Jungle Gym as “new shit”. Overall the Champs Sports Middle interlude was used to promote the Jungle Gym song.
The Jungle Gym is an upbeat Southern rap song which is an original song written by the great Murphy Lee. He wrote and co-produced the song himself. Ironically Murphy Lee promotes exercise throughout the whole despite any sexual content.
While Murphy Lee was on Universal, he recorded 4 to 5 albums worth of songs within a timespan of 5 years.
And almost nothing touched the streets at all. The only song which leaked were Grown Ass Man, Westwood Freestyle, Champ Sports Middle, and Jungle Gym. Some of those songs on which aired on BET’s Free & 106 had been played at Union Station in New York City, New York. Jungle Gym was one of the few songs that was leaked onto the Japanese import for the Murphy’s Law album in 2003.
Murphy Lee plans to get sexual by turning the club to a jungle gym. He encourages the girls to get up under all the guys. This is explained at the very beginning.
[Murphy Lee]
Yo, turn the club to a jungle gym
Matter fact girl get all under him
If you know any freaks act like one of them
Get crunk again, have fun again, dirty
Err'body leave ya guns in the cars
And err'body run right to the bar
Get ya something staright or the bubbly
We ain't Bubba but it's finna get ugly
Murphy Lee is so extreme. He struts up in the club with the rest of the Derrty team. The compression on his dubs are so mean and so fresh, so clean.
He is wearing blue and gray clothing today. Lights from the disco ball beam and shine light. This causes Murphy Lee to hide his eyes from the disco ball. He had to find a disco queen. He has on enough jewelry to not be maintain a low-key profile. Descriptive writing made a million dollars for him. He’s just a young dude from St. Louis, Missouri.
Murphy Lee is known as the trouble maker. He is in the club with my house shoes on. He doesn’t like being in the house for too long. Murphy Lee is having dreams about buying the bar out. Sometimes he has got to let his cars out. His car dusty but it rassle the road. Murphy Lee used to have "free time”. Now he has a busy life as a recording artist. Off to another club he goes to. He knew two people at the door to the club. His stomach is full of Barbeque Tofu. So he ordered some more. So now he is ready to drink.
The third verse explains the plot of the beginning for this song.
Murphy Lee is up in the club at 3 AM. Murphy Lee and Jake are so drunk. They were leaning on each other. Of course, Murphy Lee was disgusted by his intoxicated state. This ain't no fun. He is high as can be. Yet he napped himself up out of his intoxicated state.
Back on the scene, what does he see? Murphy Lee sees a fat girl on the dance floor wearing Daisy Duke shorts, unzipped with the thong in between. She got the fattest ass he has ever seen. A thick chick took him away and gave him head on the scene.
Murphy Lee gets cool with it on the song Cool Wit It. The song features Derrty Entertainment label mate Kyjaun. Ali of Ali & Gipp is featured as well. The cool saxophone solo at the end makes this song worth listening to.
Kyjuan is a laid back and humble person who is cool wit it. He is kind of hungry. He asks to be given a salad and soup. No need for extra rolls with it. Sue is the waitress who comes from behind the counter. She got a fat ass. Kyjuan went to school with her. She was the type that said,”I wouldn't know what to do wit it” He got her phone number. She is not his type though. Kyjuan let Pooh have her. To put it simply, he let the crew hit it. Murphy Lee makes a lotta dough and pays a lotta dues. So you know he has the juice. He was cool wit it.
Nelly woke up at 9:30. He said, “Damn. It's kinda early but I'm cool wit it.” He had received a message on his cellphone. Turns out it was this chick he had sex with. She used to be the cheerleader type. A lot of niggas tried but they didn't get it. Or maybe they had the game they just didn't spit it. They won't admit anything about trying to hook up with her as those same niggas carry too much pride. A lot of niggas talkin' shit but Nelly’s cool wit it.
Murphy Lee got his mama a new house and she cool wit it. His baby sister got a car as she works and goes to school. His grandmother does not like rap music. But she is cool with it as long as he has got a job. His grandfather told him, “Boy, don't blow yo money. Don't wind up in the motherfuckin news with it.” Separate the haters from the friends. Be cool.
The hook at the end is where nearly all the members of the St. Lunatics rap collective come together to rap.
Hook [includes St. Lunatics]
[Murphy Lee] Nelly you cool wit it
[Nelly] Ali you cool wit it?
[Ali] Kyjuan's cool wit it
[Kyjuan] Murphy cool wit it
[Murphy Lee] City Spud cool wit it
[Kyjuan] And Slo cool too
[Murphy Lee] Party people
Lemme show you how really cool
We are
Hold Up was a song written by Murphy Lee which featured Nelly and was produced by Mannie Fresh for the Murphy's Law album in 2003.
Hold Up can be noted for its catchy hook rapped by Nelly which is, “Say hold up, wait a minute/Lemme put some pimpin' in it/Now, big booty I'm recommendin’/And I ain't been in this spot for a minute/“ The first part of the hook is catchy and yet quite memorable. “Say hold up, wait a minute/Lemme put some pimpin' in it/“
4/5****!
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FOD - Mind Yo Business album review
FOD’s Mind Yo Business album is one of the harder to find albums by the FOD group. The album is considered a rarity. What is different about this FOD album is that there are not any featured artists or groups included. FOD is the only group on the album. Gangsta rap meets the sounds of Southern rap on this FOD album unlike much of the others where the album has a theme of death rap. From a production aspect, the sound is eclectic.
Some of the songs on this FOD album are off balance and musically off key. Some of the musical notes do not match the harmony. The subject matter of this album is nothing short of compelling nor is it anything new. The subjects of murder, gangsta rap, sex, death, ventures of street life, and criminal activity are nothing new. FOD seemed to have changed in terms of musical direction as on this album they cater towards the sounds of electronic music and Southern rap. Some of the beats and lyrics used are watered down.
The intro has a No Limit styled beat selection used with an array of hi-hats, cymbals, and snares. Just by listening to the beats, you would have thought the intro was produced by Beats By The Pound or DJ KLC. The production is so futuristic sounding due to the electronic sound used. The bit crushed synths and distorted loud noises. FOD tells us they are at war. So we better be ready.
Murder uses an array of dance beats and techno beats. Notice the claps, hi-hats, toms, snares, and cymbals which are used. That is what compromises a major portion of the techno sound for this FOD song. Overall Murder has that 2000s rap sound. Gangsta rap meets the sounds of techno on Murder.
This Is 4 You uses a boisterous violin selection. This Is 4 You is a dedication for everybody. The beats overlap the violin selection loudly. Some of the violins used are playing off key and need to be tuned correctly.
FOD experiments with the sounds of Southern rap on the song If You Real. FOD calls out rappers who claim that they are independent but are backed by a major label. Many of them are not real by FOD’s standards.
Sex & Trees uses an eclectic selection of instrumentation. Notice the selection of shakers and percussion. The percussion and shakers have a live feel to them.
FOD showed how they roll on the song Til’ Death Do Me. For a short time during the mid 90s to early 00s, they ruled the Northside of Flint and Beecher. A bit of rock incorporated into this rap song by FOD. If you listen closely, you can hear a guitar playing in the background in a faintly manner. Til’ Death Do Me is one of the best songs of this FOD album.
They do not care about law enforcement. Fuck the world and those stopping them from having power. They are ready to die for what they believe in. Someone is always leaving Flint every time they look around. People from the penitentiary went them dead. Ventures of street life are what FOD primarily raps about as it is their life. Members of FOD tell people who have children not to let run wild as they had. FOD ran wild in the streets of Flint during their time.
3/5***
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Tweet - Selections From It’s Me Again album review
Tweet - Selections From It’s Me Again was a CD sampler that Tweet and Atlantic Records gave to radio stations and her fans during her 2004 tour to promote the It's Me Again album which was released in 2005. Selections From It’s Me Again was packaged as a mixtape despite being an album sampler. Missy Elliott served as the presenter and narrator for this album sampler as she did on Tweet’s 2001 album sampler called Missy Elliott & Timbaland Present Tweet (CD Sampler).
The CD samplers for Tweet - It's Me Again were called the 2004 Tour Mixtape and 2005 Mixtape. The 2004 Tour Mixtape has the catalog code of “STCD 301576” and the 2005 Mixtape has the catalog code of “PR015211”. All 2 editions have the same songs, artwork, design, and tracklist.
The first song is Turn The Lights Off. Missy Elliott is all over this song being the DJ. Especially at the beginning. I'll admit it, her callout hooks were annoying and that she did not necessarily need to be all over this song. It made the song resemble that mixtape sound.
We Don't Need No Water is a tight jam but could have done without Missy's verse. We Don't Need No Water is a cover version of The Roof is On Fire. The song We Don't Need No Water was a should have been placed at the end of the album sampler instead of Steer.
You is another one of my favorites. Tweet takes it back to the old school with the jazzy a cappella production sound on this one. Tweet wonders what she ever saw in this particular man in this song. She fell in love with him at first sight. Tweet wonders what she ever saw in him. That's right. In other words he is getting the boot at the very end of You.
4/5****!
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