The fourth installment of the Zu-Chronicles album series created by Brooklyn Zu rapper Buddha Monk coincides with the debut for Da Manchuz, hip-hop group from Brooklyn, New York, close to Brooklyn Zu. Da Manchuz is composed by Babyface Fensta, Drunken Dragon, G-Note$ aka Spiritual Assassin, War, Born U Majesty, Lee-Major aka Redz aka Delta One and Chilli Black aka Manly Musa. Former members Espionage and Professor King Bean have passed away. Ol' Dirty Bastard and Buddha Monk are credited as part of the group sometimes.
The effort, 19 tracks for 75 minutes of length, is almost entirely produced by Buddha Monk, who's the major performers with 7 appearances, along with Redz. Drunken Dragon (5), Babyface Fensta (5), Spiritual Assassin (3), Born U Majesty, Manly Musa and WAR are the other rappers of Da Manchuz in this disk. The guest are Dungeon Masta of Brooklyn Zu Fam,Popa Chief, Rambo & Raw all of Zu-Ninjaz, Q, Polladon of Fatality, Major Deegan, Layza Life, Dunn Verbal, I-Born, Pooa, Etcetera of Alien Nation, Juice, Malik, Dee, Grime, Preacher Man, Lite and Lil' Vicious.
For almost an hour and twenty, these guys aren't saying anything. There are a couple of tracks for girls ("Q the Song", "Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got"), while everything else on the record is a battle rap among friends. It's a bland and tiring listen, Buddha Monk's production is never inspired, certainly far from his best work and these guys' rapping is interchangeable and generic. I'll go get the hardest/funniest/weakest bar for every track I can find.
1. Q: "I lived the life of a gangsta life".
2. Polladon: "You getting hot like heatwave".
5. Drunken Dragon: "My dogs eat food unless you choose / To be the roast beef special on today's menu".
7. Excetera: "I rumble on the humble"; to note that every bar of his whole second verse start with "that hard shit".
8. Popa Chief: "Your a nervous wreck / Like going home with a report card with nothing but straight F's".
9. Juice: "I'm right when I'm wrong".
10. Polladon: "A real dog could bite any hand"; "It's too many cats eating around me".
11. Lee-Major: "Well you could catch me at ya party, crawlin on ya wall / Roamin through ya home, eatin on ya chicken bones".
11. Redz: "Bust ya ass with adverbs, you slip cuz you slurred".
12. Rambo: "Pay attention to the words that's up in this page / I had you deader than the corpse that's up in the grave".
13. Dee: "You need a miracle fucking with this Imperial nigga / That's mad lyrical from the physical to the spiritual".
13. Spiritual Assassin: "Me and my niggas spit verses back and forth like ping pong".
14. Babyface Fensta: "36 Chambers had dangers".
14. Spiritual Assassin: "I search fresh water for fresh water fish".
18. Babyface Fensta: "Your ABC rhymes ain't worth shit".
Released by Chambermusik Special Products and Duck-Lo Records (label of Buddha Monk), the effort isn't essential for Wu-stans despite all the tough bars you can heard from them, including the ones you can read above.
No comments:
Post a Comment