'Crunk Juice', released 6 years before this has some great songs and was easily the most consistent project of Lil Jon/Lil Jon and The East Side Boyz. It sold well too and he continued to create hit after hit for years to be one of the biggest producers in hip hop history. Unfortunately this album takes a different lane, as the intro indicates, with Lil Jon mainly catering for the club with more of a mainstream/pop feel here. This album was first slated for 2006 and I remember this album being delayed and pushed backed a number of times and the eventual album was a let down and after revisiting it to write this review my opinion hasn't altered. Beats: ★★★☆ Rapping/Bars: ★★★☆ Hooks: ★★★☆ Best Tracks: Throw It Up (Part 2) (Remix), Killas 1. Crunk Rock (Intro) 2. Throw It Up (Part 2) (Remix) A decent crunk hardcore banger 3. Fall Out As above but less catchy 4. G Walk 5. On De Grind The hook sounds like something Akon would've been on in 2010. Not bad. 6. What Is Crunk Rock (Interlude) 7. Killas This one features the rock group, Whole White Bread, and I've always liked it. Enjoyable verses from The Game and Cube with Elephant Man on the hook to go with the thumping energy of the instrumentation. 8. Get In Get Out This one has a repetitive 9. Pop Dat Pussy 10. Outta Your Mind eh 11. Ride Da D eh 12. Ms Chocolate R. Kelly has a great collab with Lil Jon on 'Crunk Juice', but this one isn't as good. It's still one of the best few though. 13. Like a Stripper 14. Moist Oobie had a more than decent song on 'Crunk Juice' with 'One Night Stand' and this goes for a similar sultry feell, but it's not put together quite as well. 15. Every Freakin Night 16. What a Night 17. Shots 18. Work It Out 19. Machuka 20. Hey

This sounds similar to some other Televangel/late Blue Sky Black Death stuff with similar VSTs being used, but that's not a bad thing. The let down here is the final song that has unlikeable vocals with poor lyrics. The other songs have more sporadic vocals that I don't love either but they don't ruin the instrumentation at all. Still, all of this would be better as an instrumental project. Best Tracks: I Don't Wanna Die 2 Young, Slow Motion, Ride

Did they create any bad hip hop in '94? Here we have Earthquake, from Washington, who seems to only have this album which is a shame. From what I've read that seems to be due to moving into other music business ventures and a stint in prison in '97. This is just hard boom bap from front to back (well, after a two-minute uninteresting skit to start the album) in the same vein as an artist like Onyx. And vocally, Earthquake sounds closest to Akinyele without so much inflection. Beats: ★★★☆ Rapping/Bars: ★★★☆ Hooks: ★★★☆ Best Tracks: Unfadable, Go and Gettcha Gat, Watcha Step, Unfadable (Remix)

This isn't good. Claudette Ortiz isn't a good singer and there is nothing about Robby Pardlo or Ryan Toby that stands out either. The beats are very average east coast boom bap influenced. Lyrically it's not just generic love or sex tracks which is a positive, but too much of it is one paced. A fairly boring album. Best Tracks: Why, What Would You Do?, City High Anthem

I've liked some MGK in the past. I think he can flow well, and on very enjoyable songs like 'Hollywood Whore', he shows this. When he is rapping on songs like 'beauty' it's enjoyable, but that doesn't happen enough. There is too much poor emo-like singing and I have nothing positive to say about Trippie Redd. The chorus on the aforementioned song, 'beauty', is nice and it's easily the best moment. The chill whistling melody on 'struggles' works well. Aspects of other songs like 'who do I call' and 'hiding in the hills' are likeable, but most songs are a mixed bag. As an aside, can we stop this ridiculous trend of titles and tracklists being written in all uppercase or lowercase? Best Tracks: beauty, struggles