This is Florida's debut album, released by a rapper from Atlanta, originally from the Bronx, whose executive producer made the fortune of Miami hip hop. It remains a record that thinks New York with its skinny n hard beats and generic functional lyrics from a classic mid-eighties b-boy who makes braggadocio his personal playground.
At the end, Atlanta hadn't started badly with hip hop, of which Peter "MC Shy D" Jones is one of the pioneers, showing a fair potential. The guy, cousin of Afrika Bambaataa, becomes one of first artist signed by Luke Skyywalker Records, the label of Luther Campbell, but it seems that the budget that Campbell gave to his new rapper was close to zero, because in addition to not having guests (sometimes an advantage rather than a disadvantage), Shy D produced the entire album himself and had to mix it almost by himself, unfortunately proving of being better as a rapper than as a producer or behind the mixer.
Despite the record has no obvious highlights, "Paula's on Crack" is a story that you'll hear continuously in the future of the genre, better written and acted. Even though the whole effort didn't sound good at all, it was well received by the public, barely entering the Billboard 200 and even making its way into the R&B charts, convincing Campbell to take Shy D on tour with the better known 2 Live Crew.
At the end of the eighties, after realizing that something was not right in his financial accounts, he left Campbell's label and started over with a new independent label, his career practically ended after the second album, but many years later he managed to obtain a millionaire compensation from Campbell who in fact had withheld a lot of the proceeds from the first two Shy D albums with Luke Skywalker Records.
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