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JennYScarface-Emeritus Album Review
January 6th 2009 00:36
Release date: December 2, 2008
Genre: Hip hop
Label: Rap-A-Lot Records, Asylum Records
Houston rapper Scarface, one of the South's best, released his album Emeritus a month ago. Scarface has then gone on to say that this would be his last record.
Emeritus starts with a four-minute long Intro in which J. Prince talks about his arrestation and prosecution.
High Powered featuring Papa Reu follows. The beat of this song is sick and G with the big bass, big kick, and big snare mixed with some claps. Scarface kills it as usual, but I didn't like the chorus. I don't understand why they had to add the singing.
The third track, Forget About Me, features Bun B and Lil' Wayne. With the names Cool and Dre behind the boards, you know this is gonna to be a great BANGER, and it is. Weezy gets the first verse. I usually think that he sucks, but I gotta hand it to him, he has the skills on this one. Scarface still manages to kill it despite ordinary rhyming. Bun B kills it you can tell he's a true G by hearing only his voice. But the best part of this track is the chorus. I don't know if Cool and Dre used a sample or if they found a singer, but the way the girl sang with the beat was sick.
Can't Get Right features Bilal and is produced by Nottz. The beat is sick and sweet. How can you judge Face's lyricism. Bilal sings on the chorus. Personally, I think his singing was right for this song.
Can't Get Right Music Video
Still Here features Shateish. Both performers fit well with the beat. The beat is sweet but when you listen to Can't Get Right which was produced by the same person (Nottz), you can't help but feel that Still Here's beat is weaker than the previous track. Still, this beat is pretty cool.
It's Not A Game has a Dirty South kind of beat. What can I say? Scarface does his thing as usual. The chorus is sick with a girl singing. The beat is dope, and was produced by newcomer Illmind.
Who Are They features K-Rino and Slim Thug. It's another Dirty South beat once again produced by Illmind. This one is dope but I prefer It's Not A Game. Some people say the Dirty South is killing hip hop. I beg to differ. See, Who Are They is also a Dirty South beat, but Scarface, K-Rino, and Slim Thug have the lyricism to keep that shit banging and smart. At first listen, I didn't even notice that K-Rino and Slim Thug were on this until I saw the featured guests list. I thought it was Scarface all along. The chorus is nice, again with the girl singing.
The eighth track, Soldier Story, is unusual because Face is not on it. The Product and Z-Ro are the only performers here. The beat is smooth, but I didn't like neither rapper's voice they didn't fit with the beat. I have no idea why Scarface put this song on his album.
Redemption Song starts with the beat and Scarface spitting on it straight away. It's a pretty simple song, not a banger, only average for me.
The beat on High Note is sweet as hell. Scarface fits on it very well. The chorus was even better with the girl singing in the background.
We Need You features Wacko and has the Southern sound. It's a pretty ordinary track, it even started to get repetitive.
Unexpected also features Wacko on the chorus. And again, it's an ordinary track. Nothing special.
Emeritus is the final full-song of the album. The beat sounds like some kind of military drill song due to the snare. This song is tight. Scarface spits non-stop, getting sicker and sicker. He took some lines from G-Code, but that's what made it sick.
Finally, the Outro is just a dope, sick-ass beat.
Sweet, nice, and G is all I got to say about this album. It has everything: from the new gangster shit to the old, smooth gangster shit.Scarface rips it and I wasn't disappointed by the featured guests. I give this album a 9/10. The album starts really well then calms down a bit until Emeritus brings it back to the dope shit. Scarface King of the South, no doubt.
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