B.G.
The Heart of Tha Streetz Vol. 2 — I Am What I Am
Chopper City/Koch
· Slow down there, champ.
Remember B.G.? Nearly a decade ago, the success of his hit "Bling Bling" popularized the phrase to the degree that your grandparents now throw it around whenever they get the Saturn waxed. Since then, he’s publicly split from Baby Williams and the Ca$h Money Millionaires camp, formed his own Chopper City label, survived the onslaughts of hurricanes (Katrina and Rita) and still found time to drop new records as often as some people go out for dinner.
B.G.’s hoarse delivery and lazy flow is most at home over the sinister bass lines and clacking drums on songs like "Real Nigga," "Kill Or Be Killed" and "Fuck ‘Em". But as is the case with anything rushed, B.G.’s prodigious output has left little room for quality control. Vol. 2 is packed to bursting with 18 tracks, but fewer than half of them deserve a second spin.
Speaking of repeat listens, "Move Around" is worth at least a couple dozen. Veteran producer Mannie Fresh has moved along from the Atari beats that rocketed B.G. to stardom the first time, but this song is going to be huge, if only for the way that Mannie says "bologna."
All told, Vol. 2 is pretty dismal. It’s too bad B.G. had to hamstring himself by blasting through everything in such a hurry. If you pared away all the crap from the two volumes of Heart Of Tha Streetz you’d be left with a hell of an album.
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