U-God - Mr. Xcitement (2005)
Well, this album sounds moderately better production-wise than the piece of shit that was "Golden Arms Redemption" and the first three songs (disregarding the intro, ya silly) are fuckin' GOOD. "It's a Wrap (feat. Leatha Face)" is upbeat and makes me wish that the two of them would just do a duo album together, because this track is awesome and CATCHY AS SHIT with a great level of energy to it as they bounce off of each other constantly during it, "Hit 'Em Up, Roll Out (feat. Leatha Face)" makes me think the same about them putting out a duo album, but also makes me think "WHY THE FUCK DO THEY SAY "RIDE OUT" IN THE CHORUS INSTEAD OF "ROLL OUT"?", but "Get Down (feat. Boo Kapone, MC Eiht & Squeak Ru)" is amazing in the way that every single rapper involved with the track has a fucking terrible rap-name, but it's GOOD!! The album also takes an interesting little intermission halfway through with "A Long Time Ago (feat. Ebony Burke)" and "Stop (Carry On) (feat. Ebony Burke)" which, if you read my last review and didn't drink away the cringeworthy memories of my "writing abilities", you'll know that outside of "Rumble (feat. Leatha Face, Inspectah Deck, & Method Man)", "Night the City Cried" was pretty much the only track I enjoyed off of it because it was serious and self-aware for a moment, which, yeah, I don't really expect from U-God but it sure does help break the monotony on this album.
There are some tunes that fall straight on their asses, like "I'm Talkin' To You" with its electric guitar riffs and a chorus of "YEAH, I'M TALKIN' TO YOU-OOH!!" and "Kick Ass" because it's the complete opposite of what it says it is!! Now, if it were named "Shitty Track With Weird Trumpet Sample and a Chorus U-God Thought of in Two Minutes", then that would be strange because that's a wordy fuckin' name, dumbass!! In fact, a lot of these songs have fucking shit choruses and are just generally awkward songs. "You Don't Wanna Dance" is pretty accurate in its song title, but it's weird because it really does sound like a lot of these songs were U-God trying to get played in the clubs with more modern production (it was 2005, so it's aged just as well as you'd think) but when U-God is talking about Wu-Tang-esque shit, who REALLY wants to dance to that? That's shit to analyze and go HAM at a concert to, not fucking hear in the club with all ya homeboys/homegirls. It's almost like he realized he couldn't grasp onto the same artistic substance that the other rappers in Wu-Tang Clan were mostly able to, so he didn't even try, and I guess that's respectable but who's seriously listening to this album in this present day and age? This is an album that your brother-in-law who wears white-rimmed sunglasses on his backwards baseball cap while inside of restaurants enjoys and probably has a story about something crazy that happened while listening to it + playing "Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory" on the original Xbox, but it ain't doing shit for me with the majority of the record. There was certainly potential here to be something a lot better, and there's definitely a few good tunes to be found, especially if you tune out during the choruses, but seriously.. What's going on here? WHY IS U-GOD SINGING ABOUT BEING SORRY ABOUT MAKING A GIRL CRY IN "Jenny"?! IS THIS THE GUY FROM "Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)"?! IT CAN'T BE!! MOTHERFUCKER!! YOU RUSED ME!!!
5/10
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