Shaquille O'Neal is a basketball player from Newark, New Jersey. At 21 y/o, he decides to debut in the rap game with a 41-minute studio album, intro, outro and ten songs.
He has no technical skills, neither in writing the lyrics nor in executing them: he spits out weak, random and wacky bars for forty minutes with a bland, clunky and boring delivery style. Joining him are Def Jef (decent on the light g-funk vibes of "Skillz"), Fu-Schnickens and Erick Sermon, who are professionals and do their job adequately making a couple of honest mainstream songs.
Then there's Phife Dawg, who manages to be even more ridiculous than Shaq himself, making two shoddy appearances. Behind the keyboards are Erick Sermon, Def Jef, Meech Weels, K-Cut and Ali Shaheed Muhammad: the production is cheap and very poor, there are random scattered silly sounds and easy random samples, there's no cut that works musically, excluding the pop singles. Released by Jive Records, the album has a great commercial success, top 10 in the rap chart and certified platinum within six months, however, there's no reason to listen to it.
Rating: 3/10.
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