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Kaskade - In the Moment album review

Kaskade - In the Moment is one of the more overlooked electronic dance albums of 2004. Dance and electronic meet each other on this album. Now a majority of this Kaskade album is filled with love songs. Love songs and romance are common themes and elements in Kaskade’s releases.


Steppin’ Out is about how far a couple has gone in their romantic relationship as they dance. The song is an upbeat electronic dance number.

Here they are. They’ve come so far in such a fine romance. Now they are steppin' out to dance. Her lovely charms hen she is in his arms comes with that subtle glance of his when they are steppin out to dance. Could he think it over when they get older? She’ll still want him here with her. She hopes that he agrees. There's something that takes place whenever they embrace. She’s hoping that he takes this chance. Steppin' out to dance.


You know, it's funny how we change when our lives get a taste of the sweet love. That is what the song  Sweet Love is about. So feel the rhythm and have a taste of some sweet love.

I know we have rainy days. It's only scary if it gets down to you. Hear now what I say, there's one way. So feel the rhythm and have a taste of some sweet love. You know it's right to make it takes a whole lot of paradise.

There are some things I can do without. Some things I just don't need. Too much in life gets cluttered. I like the feel of simplicity and sweet love. Do you? No matter that the sky is gray. Sweet love took the clouds away. You know it's right, c'mon inside. Sweet love to come home tonight. Feel the rhythm and have a taste of some sweet love.

4/5****!

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Kaskade - It’s You, It’s Me album review

Kaskade - It’s You, It’s Me has good upbeat electronic dance music to meditate to. The album has a theme of meditation despite the upbeat and uptempo nature of the songs that are on this Kaskade album. Meditation To The Groove, This Rhythm, and Call Me Wise are good songs to meditate to. Kaskade - It’s You, It’s Me is one of the lesser known electronic dance albums of 2003.


Meditation To The Groove is a perfect electronic dance song to meditate to despite the extremely upbeat and uptempo nature of the song.

This is not the same old story. This is not your same old thing. If you let the music take you, you will see that this is not a dream. So sit back and meditate to this song. Please don’t mistake this. I'll just let this music lead the way. Melody can set both you and me free.

This could be how you see things. This could be your life anew. Letting go to understand this meditation to the groove. Melody and meditation can set both you and me free.


This Rhythm about how rhythm runs through people’s souls. Here's a rhythm to remind you to feel the love you have inside. This Rhythm is perfect for meditation and dance.

I know this rhythm runs my soul. It builds me up and moves me through the night. I hope to never meet the dawn. Not assuming without. I know that you'll be so. I know you know this rhythm runs your soul. It builds you up and moves you through the night.

It always seems like every day I use more than I can give. So I use the time I have to let the spirit within me live.  It always seems like every day you use more than you can give. So you use the time you have to let the spirit within you live. So let that spirit within you live.

There's so much to take on in. I’m always running but it seems there's no win. You’re always running but it seems there's no win. Here's a rhythm to remind you to feel the love you have inside.

5/5*****!

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Kaskade - I Remember album review

Kaskade - I Remember is one of the more upbeat electronic dance albums in Kaskade’s discography. Dance and electronic meet each other on this album. Now a majority of this Kaskade album is filled with love songs. Love songs and romance are common themes and elements in Kaskade’s releases. Stars Align and I’ll Never Dream I’m In Love are prime examples.

4/5****!

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Shannon - Let The Music Play album review

Shannon’s Let The Music Play album is the bet electro pop album of 1983. You have the sounds of electronic music meeting pop and love ballads. The album was a success for electro pop singer Shannon Greene.


Shannon’s titular single Let the Music Play is what had dance floors, skating rinks, and clubs dancing and grooving along with the music. The song was a smash hit for Shannon in 1983 as well as the rest of the 80s decade. The song was also a chart topper on the Billboard Charts.

Shannon started dancing and love put her into a groove with a man. As soon as they started to move, the music played while their bodies displayed through the dance. Then love picked them out for romance. Shannon thought it was clear. The plan was they would share this feeling just between themselves.

The plan was rearranged when the music changed. He went to dance with someone else. But now he's with somebody new. What does love want Shannon to do? Love said let the music play. He won't get away. Just keep the groove and then he'll come back to Shannon again. He can't ignore this groove.

He tried pretending. A dance is just a dance. But she sees he's dancing his way back to her. Guess he's discovered they are truly lovers. Magic from the very start because love just kept her groovin’. And he felt her movin' even though they danced apart.

So they started dancing. And love put them into the groove as soon as they started to move. Love said let the music play. He won't get away. Just keep the groove and then he'll come back to you again. He tried pretending. A dance is just a dance. But she sees he's dancing his way back to her.


Give Me Tonight is Let the Music Play revisited. The song has the same upbeat nature and spirit of her smash hit single did. Yet the subject matter is more heartbreaking.

Walkin' sadly through the park, Shannon hears cryin' in the darkness. And though she acts like she cannot hear. Their situation is very clear. A girl who's trying to tell her guy the time has come that they say goodbye. His answer tears Shannon’s heart apart. This guy tells his girl, “Give me tonight, Then if you don't wanna stay, girl, I'll just forget you You'll see I'm right. You won't get to go away. Love ain't gonna let you.”

Walkin' with through the park. Now it's her voice in the darkness. Just like the girl tryin' to tell her guy. She can't believe when she hears once more. The very words that were said before. His voice echoes in the dark.


Someone Waiting Home is about how Shannon longs for someone at home for her.

It's 5 o'clock and everybody hurries for the door. While Shannon lays back and hangs around some more they can rush to loved one's waiting home. But she don't wanna rush to be alone.

The fellas start a game by teasing her saying she’s got nowhere to be. So she makes up a name of someone waiting patiently. Someone waiting at home for her. It's 10 o'clock and the girls are wrapped in love while Shannon is home all alone wrapped in her heartache. Why there's no love for her? She’ll never understand. Shannon wants no more than any other woman.

Shannon asks herself if something's in her destiny. Or maybe something in her past that may be changed so there can be someone waiting home for her.

She gets lost in depression in the morning. She meets with the neighbor and offers him a ride. And that special light in his smile offers back the impression that love has been right in her backyard all of the time. And suddenly her silent prayers were heard. And when the guys start in on her, she never breathes a word. That tonight there's gonna be someone waiting home for her.

5/5*****!

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Lady J - Glock N’ My Hand album review

The Legend Lady J - Glock N’ My Hand is one of the legendary Memphis rap tapes from 1994. The album has that dark eerie soundscape ridden with esoteric violence commonly heard in gangsta rap. Her sound and style is similar to Lady Bee and La Chat. However the beats are quite simplistic as most of the produced and used on this album consist of snares, hi-hats, and kick drums. However her slow catchy flow fits with the beats. Memphis shit is slept on way too much.

One thing that is noticeable is that her vocals were clear for a Memphis rap album for that time. You can hear that signature Southern sound in her vocals. Lady J got that flow as her verses hit hard when she is on the microphone.

Glock N’ My Hand was produced by the relatively unknown DJ Zae for O.B. Records. DJ Zae produced a bulk of her 1994 album. Which is why all the production was credited to DJ Zae. This album was a solo project put together by Lady J and DJ Zae back in 1994. Oscar Barnes was the executive producer who over saw the recording of this album. Oscar Barnes agreed to press the album on cassette in and her album sent out to the car audio and record stores shortly after the recording process of her album was finished. Her 1994 album was an underground success overnight too. Overall her album served as a promotional underground album sampler before her more noted album "Life in the Ghetto".



Chronic Dope shows the listener how The Legend Lady J smokes marijuana by using her dope method of smoking marijuana. Consequently she exhales clouds of high quality marijuana smoke. Basically Lady J is hitting chronic while making hits and making hits while hitting chronic. The term “chronic” is street slang for high quality marijuana.

This the way she hits her weed. Blowing her fuckin' chronic dope. Her verses hit hard when she is on the microphone. You’ll feel as if you’ve been pistol whipped by her verses and lyrics. That is what these lyrics indicate and reference: “It’s the pistol whip when I grip”

Lesser individuals hope that her rhyming skills will falter. However Lady J reassures her rhyming skills will not falter. These lesser individuals do not attempt to take her place or become better than her. These lesser individuals keep wishing they were better than her. That is what these lyrics indicate and reference:

Suckas keep wishin' that Lady would slip
But I won't so suckas don't step to my rhyme
You get hit with a blow
Thats ok, that is fine
When Im reciting my female rhyme
Niggas be waiting gangster lines
I’m laughin when suckas get put in a bind
Sit back waiting for that fool who wants to violate
Playin a game of a nigga tre
Let me demonstrate
Im feelin' great, Im feelin' fine

She’s going to smack you if you disrespect her in any way. So don’t take it too far with her. Especially when it comes to rhyming skills.

Lady J was chiefin on that hay with these lyrics.:

I feel the want, I feel the need to chief up some of that endo weed
Once the weed is in my hand
Thoughts in my mind start to expand
I hit that do then I choke
Motherfuckers I never say no
Keep on chiefin'
Hittin that reef n' when I get full of that ick it'll start chiefin'
Blowin n' I’m showin' it
All the time I’m sittin back knowin
When I hit that ink I blink a time or two
I’m no longer that same person you thought you knew
Before you open your mouthful too fast too late you spoke
I wanted you to know the way I hit my chronic do

Basically Lady J is hitting chronic while making hits and making hits while hitting chronic. Everybody in the room started to choke after coming in contact with that chronic dope. Smoking marijuana causes her to get paranoid. Lady thinks there is someone out to harm her. She’ll resort to drastic measures if she has to whenever anything bad happens. Whenever a shady situation happens, Lady J is ready for it.

These lyrics explain how Lady J is hitting chronic while making hits and making hits while hitting chronic.:

Start to, start to choke, start to choke, start to choke, start to choke, start to choke, start to choke
Let me clear my throat so I can finish this dope shit n' if I do say so myself well lets admit its a hit
When I get through blowin' my do then you know the shit is on
Paranoid, watching my back, never leavin my sight is my tome
Cuz whenever some shit get crack you I’m down fo' it
While you sit there runnin yo lip, I’m takin care mines n' showin that
See that shit started from that fuckin dry leaf, BKA, chronic ink/ick, that me and my homies love to chief


Lady J goes on a late night creep on her song I’m Creepin’. She kills people by leaving bodies bleedin when she goes out on a late night creep. Lady J is creepin when she is sleepin.

Lady J is creepin. Lady J is creepin when she is sleepin. Lady J is creepin real hard on a nigga’s ass. So if he tries to play her, he'll be lying in a casket. Look out, bitch, because you don’t know who you fucking with. If you cool with Lady J, then you know this shit is straight. But if you have some anna with Lady J, then she will take your life by murdering you.

Lady J explains she is not the person to mess around with or negotiate with. However if she is cool with you, then she’ll leave you alone and won’t bother you. But if you have animosity with/towards her, then she will take your life by murdering you. That is what these lyrics mean.:

Look out, bitch, because you don’t know who you fucking with
If you cool with me then you know this shit is straight
But if you have some anna
It'll be yo life I take

She just can't help it. It’s like a habit for her. When she sees your face she want to grab it and stab it. To you bitches who keep talkin that shit, you better watch ya fuckin back or you’ll be added to her list of the "drawbacks". Niggas try to play the pimp roles with them fuckin games. You’ll be the victim of the brain labeled blood stain. Niggas ain't takin no shit. She grab her gauge and make a hit. Or she takes her hatchet and cuts your lips off. And rounds up her sawed off to blow your motha fuckin ass off. Letting the spray of the ammo go. She quickly takes out the bitch nigga and the bitch hoe.

When that bitch is talkin that shit, her blood pressure rises. When your ass fall to sleep, she’ll grab her gauge and prop it between your eyes. Now take these bullets for all your fuckin lies. Or Lady J will light yo ass up and leave your ass screaming with flames. Or she will plug her drill up and drill a hole through your skull and brain. When she closes her eyes she has these thoughts of the devils schemes She doesn’t know how or why but comes to her in her dream.

Lady J cuts out the heart of her enemies. And at the same time break she pulls you spine out. To make it more simple she’ll send you straight to the morgue with your body tied to the back of the wagon with a chord. Lyin in the freezer with a tag on your toe. Lady J is fucking dangerous. She turns hoes to ashes and bustas to dust. And yes Lady J is in control and runnin thangs. So you best to be aware of The Legend Lady J.


U Can Talk Your Ass Off is another junt Lady J went hard on. The junt was well laid out due to the production and vocals. That Memphis sound is something else.

Lady J proves that she has got on the junt Tripple Tounge. Her catchy flow fits with the beats. One thing that is noticeable is that her vocals were clear for a Memphis rap song for that time. Everything about this junt is hard.

4/5****!

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Carmike - Comin At Yo Ass album review

Carmike - Comin At Yo Ass is one of the hardest and darkest Memphis rap albums from 1994 next to Tommy Wright III - Runnin And Gunnin. This is classic Memphis rap music from Prophet Entertainment rapper Carmike. 90s Memphis rap scene was straight up horrorcore and gangsta shit. DJ Paul and Juicy J made some cold beats back in the 90s. Now Carmike raps mostly about life growing up in Memphis as nearly most rappers from that city do. The highlight junts on this album are Let's Run A Train and Comin At Yo Ass.


Gangsta Shit is a wonderful gangsta rap track filled with action packed drama and true horror. Gangsta Shit explains how Carmike turns winter season into glock season which for Carmike is open season.

Carmike has got a nine-millimeter handgun in his drawers. So think before you step up to the pimpster. Don't let that be the motherfucking reason you got killed. Carmike quickly turns winter season into glock season which ultimately leads winter season to become killing season. Which for Carmike is open season. Kingpin Skinny Pimp got the funk in the trunk. Carmike be dicking down on every last one of you hoes. Putting his foot dead in your ass,


The song and title track Comin’ At Yo Azz is one of the catchier songs on the album. The song explains exactly how Carmike is coming for/at your ass.  His rhymes kick like mantras. DJ Paul and Juicy J made the dope ass beats for the title track.

The song and title track Comin’ At Yo Azz is one of the catchier songs on the album which uses catchy lyrics during the beginning which go as “Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass”.

[Intro]
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, comin’ at yo ass, comin’ at yo ass
Carmike, Carmike, Carmike
Carmike, Carmike, Carmike

Carmike compares himself to the king of boxing, Muhammad Ali,  at the very beginning of Verse 1 with these lyrics of his.

[Verse 1]
I floats like a butterfly, I sting like a bee
I’m as rough and rugged as a motherfucking tree
One, two, three and don’t forget four
Niggas that I flex, have them wrestled to the fucking floor
One pop, two pop, sweat starts to pop, then I drop

Carmike floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. He is as rough and rugged as a motherfucking tree. Carmike has niggas that he flexes on wrestled to the fucking floor. Kingpin Skinny Pimp kicked in the door and he started to wreck shop on them hoes. Was that psychic shit that 2-1-1 must’ve hit? Kingpin Skinny Pimp picked Carkmike up for another 211. He goes “Are you alright, my nig, my nigga, my man?”

There goes Mrs. Claudine. She likes Carkmike in that pimp riding. Now pimp riding ain’t for fuckin’ shorties. That pimp riding is for certified playas and macks. These bitches are constantly choosing and using.

Carmike drop off smooth spleens on your portrayal of your defense. He really doesn’t like Christmas because he is the damn Grinch. It’s easy to break you off something foul. His foot broke off in your ass. His rhymes kick like mantras. Carmike is that gangsta, realsta, and the pimpsta. You’re dealing with the mack, jack. So roll up another endo sack and buy another pint of yak. Welcome to the underground in the cells where Carmike dwells. Better be down with this motherfucking pimp sound.


Let's Run A Train is one of those junts that everyone bumped back in the day.  This is that song that you play when you are running a train. The way Carmike and Noid put their flows on one beat is just sick.  Juicy J made those dope ass beats.  

5/5*****!

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Carmike – Still Comin' At Yo Azz album review

Carmike – Still Comin' At Yo Azz is one of the hardest and darkest Memphis rap albums from 2017. His 2017 album is filled with that horrorcore and gangsta rap shit. Now Carmike raps mostly about life growing up in Memphis as nearly most rappers from that city do. The highlight junts on this album are Ballin' Down The Highway, On That Tight Shit, Streets Say, and Still Comin' At Yo Azz. Carmike – Still Comin' At Yo Azz served as the follow-up album to his 1995 album Carmike - Comin At Yo Ass. The album has those cold 90s beats.


The song Jealous Bitch revisits the song Jealous Bitch from the 1994 album Gimisum Family - Tha Other Side Of Da Family. The song is specifically aimed at the jealous bitches and snitches in Memphis, Tennessee.

Now the intro uses repetitive lyrics that is an annoying sample with a subdued delivery. Not surprisingly uncommon in Southern rap.

[Intro]
Jealous snitch, broke snitch, make some bustas wanna click
Jealous snitch, jealous snitch
You wrong for that, you wrong for that, you wrong for that
You wrong for that, you wrong for that

Carmike can't believe that a hoe ass nigga just snitched. And all of this time Carmike thought he was down with this click. Now his nigga rots in a cell. No need for laughing because his nigga still doin' swell.You better watch it because Gimisum Family is sure enough watching you. Tongue ripped out cause your ass just snitched. You ended up laying in the gutter.


The song and title track Still Comin' At Yo Azz is one of the catchier songs on the album. The song explains exactly how Carmike is coming for/at your ass. His rhymes kick like mantras. The song and title track Still Comin’ At Yo Azz is one of the catchier songs on the album which uses catchy lyrics during the beginning which go as “I floats like a butterfly, I sting like a bee”. Still Comin' At Yo Azz is a follow-up to his 1995 classic Comin At Yo Ass.

The lyrics to Verse 1 have been significantly altered with updated lyrics to keep the junt fresh to show Carmike hasn’t lost his touch or persona.

[Verse 1]
I floats like a butterfly, I sting like a bee
Well I’ll be
Got so much love overseas in Germany
Niggaz wanna be legend killas

Carmike floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. He is as rough and rugged as a motherfucking tree. Carmike has niggas that he flexes on wrestled to the fucking floor. Kingpin Skinny Pimp kicked in the door and he started to wreck shop on them hoes. Was that psychic shit that 2-1-1 must’ve hit? Kingpin Skinny Pimp picked Carkmike up for another 211. He goes “Are you alright, my nig, my nigga, my man?”


On That Tight Shit is some of the tightest shit you will hear on this album. The bass and beats are on point with the production.

Let's Run A Train is one of those junts that everyone bumped back in the day. This is that song that you play when you are running a train. The way Carmike and Lil Noid put their flows on one beat is just sick. Juicy J made those dope ass beats.  

5/5*****!