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May 15, 2009
Method Man & Redman - Blackout 2: Album Review
Method Man & Redman, Blackout! 2 (Def Jam, 2009)
Can you believe it's been 10 years since the first Blackout? That's why I don't even mess around with weed like that. I don't want to wake up one day and come to find out I'm 40. Fortunately, smoking weed doesn't necessarily hinder your ability to rap about smoking weed.
BO2
Begins with audio of Meth and Red in concert, Nation of Millions-style, as if to show they still tour. Good for them.
I'M DOPE NIGGA
A little slow and low for the first proper song on the album, no? I hope there's not gonna be a whole lot of pandering to the South on this album. I notice Meth is a lot heavier on the crime talk on this album. He must be a lot more broke than he was the first time around.
A-YO
The killer single that got me psyched for this album in the first place. I remember hearing it a few weeks ago on the way to Jimmy Johns to get a sandwich and thinking this album could be nails. You never can tell with these old pot heads. Look at that new Del album.
DANGEROUS MCEES
Red kills it with the opening line: "You can find me inside a whore, making her legs go up like Ferrari doors." The production is a little bit boring, in a budget Dre sort of way.
ERRBODY SCREAM
Like the relatively quick tempo and the Keith Murray guest raps, not so crazy about how the beat slows down during the chorus.
HEY ZULU
Somehow manages to incorporate several different modern day production styles (screwed and chopped chorus, auto tune, etc.) and not come off as annoying.
CITY LIGHTS
Crap, it's a song with Bun B. Of course it sounds like Red and Meth on a Bun B song, rather than vice versa. This is just disgraceful.
FATHER'S DAY
Things get kinda slow and Quincy Jones-sounding. I was concerned they might be rapping about their kids. I'm still getting over listening to that Tanya Morgan album. But it turns out they're just rapping about the same shit they always rap about.
MRS INTERNATIONAL (SKIT)
Does smoking weed make you less selective about the kind of women you have sex with? I think a lot of women who smoke weed are hot, but I don't think I could take them at all seriously. Plus, I just wouldn't want to be around that shit.
MRS INTERNATIONAL
Way too grown and sexy. It's hardly even tongue in cheek.
HOW BOUT DAT
A showcase for Redman's weed carriers, who almost certainly really do carry around his weed.
DIS IZ 4 ALL MY SMOKERS
I can imagine this going over well at a show where most of the crowd is rolling up, a la the bulk of Cypress Hill's oeuvre.
LOCK DOWN (SKIT)
A prison scene, with Kay Slay. No fishsticks.
FOUR MINUTES TO LOCK DOWN
The one with Rae and Ghostface. I wish it didn't sound like the intro + any number of other post-Blueprint rap songs.
NEVER HEARD DIS B4
Best (and maybe only) Five Heartbeats reference in 10-plus years. Lame, synth-based beat.
I KNOW SUMPTN
Sort of the opposite of "Hey Zulu." It's got the auto tune and what have you, and you wish it didn't.
A LIL' BIT
One more song, so the album seems like a better value.
COMMENTS: Surprisingly not that bad. Just like the new Eminem, I'm wondering why I ever doubted I'd like this. Maybe 10 years isn't as much time as I thought. This could have been a modern classic, on a par with the original Blackout, if it wasn't for all of the pandering to '90s babies, the South, so on and so forth.
BEST TRACKS: "A-Yo" "Hey Zulu" "Four Minutes to Lock Down"
BONUS VIDEO: "A-Yo"
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