"Marky" Mark Wahlberg renounces the path of rock and focuses on becoming a rap star, in a similar way to Kid Rock, which he's inspired by, who will then manage to carve out a particularly rough road in his beloved rock.
As an artist, Wahlberg is better than the worst, but not so much better: he makes an album that altogether falls into the evil pop rap, imbued with cumbersome and sterile rap-dance music. The rhythms are hip house and festive pop, with skinny drum machines and lame and confused dance pop hooks, while Wahlberg's lyrics are embarrassing, unoriginal and pretty mediocre, delivered in a shouted, syncopated, irregular and weak pop-rap style.
He's compared several times to Vanilla Ice because he's white and because his rap sucks, but Wahlberg's style finds more similarities with that of MC Hammer: dance productions, irregular delivery without sense of rhythm, light-hearted, and with a rapping that it would have been late even ten years earlier.
Like Hammer, his style is pop rap, he wants to try to be successful with a little pop rap, but this sound is world music: this guy tries to make world music trying to put all the genres that could be liked by the greatest possible audience, perhaps he chases Hammer's success, but never achieves it by bringing out this hip dance effort with a bit of shouted random lines and lame elements everywhere.
Fortunately, he started a good acting career. The closest song to anything I could recommend is "Good Vibration", where on a heavy and meaningless rhythm, hip house / dance that wants to make a break into pop, "Marky Mark" delivers shouting in a cumbersome way, but there's one splendid soul hook by Loletta Holloway that partially satisfies the listening.
Rating: 2/10.
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