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| Thephoenix. |
 Along with Nas, Busta Rhymes, and a few chosen others, Fat Joe belongs to an exclusive cadre of MCs who sustain foundation and commercial relevance. With more than 10 solo outings and a slew of high-charting collaborations, he's delivered for the club and the curb, never losing respect from either of those fickle demographics.As a result, depending on whom you ask, his albums always suffer for one reason or another. Here, for example, hardcore-rap geeks will applaud the ducat-minded "Valley of Death" but deplore the comparably themed (and truly awful) "If It Ain't About Money" with Trey Songz. In general, street-rap albums are injected with bubblegum so that evil imprints can push big singles through mainstream channels. Fat Joe won with this scheme in 2004, when the iron strings on "Lean Back" had even your grandma flexing. Now that he's gone independent, he should abandon that prescription and simply let it flow....full text |
| Planetill |
| There are two Fat Joes. One is the gun toting South Bronx monster member of D.I.T.C. who is known for that rugged street flavor. The other is Miami Joe, known more for the floss than the grit; club banger maker extraordinaire. His last album, J.O.S.E. 2 was underwhelming; snatching some of the luster off of Joe’s Miami life. For those that love that hardcore New York Hip-Hop aesthetic, Joey Crack returns with quite the banger on The Darkside Vol. 1. The album is full of top-notch production from Just Blaze, Cool & Dre, Scram Jones, Scoop DeVille and the all mighty DJ Premiere. Suffice to say, Fat Joe came through in the clutch. The haunting “Intro” immediately puts pressure on the competition with smashing drums and and urgent strings. The Cool & Dre-produced ”Valley of Death” is a slow moving banger with California guitars and soul samples drizzling over the rough drums and hi-hats. “Welcome to the Darkside” (Scram Jones) features a few clever lines and hard production, ending with “We gone throw the biggest party when Curtis die.” Draw your own conclusion....full text |
| Ted-payne |
| I don’t like Fat Joe. If you really like him, I warn you I probably won’t like this album. I definitely messed with Joey back in the day- I love JOSE. But everything after that has been bleh. Almost like Joey died with Pun. The production listing looked insane though, so I will check it out. I am sure by the end of the record I will be looking for an instrumental. Again remember this is my very first spin of this album…my thoughts take longer than that to fully form. 1. Intro: Pretty cool beat. I just don’t like Joey – rhymes are so simplified and Im not feeling his flow. Decent intro though…I do wish producers would take car sirens out of their songs. That shit can scare the hell out of you in the car. 2. Valley Of Death: Beat started out hard then went soulful – really nice. This sounds like it could have fit on Jay’s American gangster. Oh except, Joe can not rhyme even a tiny fraction as good as even old Jay. I don’t even mind Joe on this song though – he isn’t doing anything new but his story sounded interesting on this....full text |
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