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album cover LUDACRIS Word Of Mouf (Island / Def Jam) cd 16.98
Still more hip hop bubbles up from the dirty south, from the underground, and spills out all over MTV and hiphop radio. Ludacris has been kicking around for a while, mix tapes etc... But last years's 'Fantasy' track blew up BIG and made Ludacris a household word. Now, it's a year later, and there's a new record, even better than the last one, a new completely hilarious 'big-headed' video, and Ludacris is even a goddamn MTV host!! But it was bound to happen. As MTV started dipping their toes in 'underground hip hop' (Cash Money, No Limit, Nelly, St. Lunatics, etc.) and embraced the dirty south sound, the underground pretty much stopped being underground at all. Videos, clothing lines, commercials all became de rigeur. And thankfully shit like Mase and Puff Daddy finally have some competition. Plus folks like Nelly and Ludacris, while still 'gangsta', manage to be cute and goofy at the same time and therefore pretty appealing to the teenyboppers and hip hop lightweights. Ludacris takes the sparse, bouncy southern sound of No Limit and Cash Money, and mixes in some big beats, a little skittery jungle, and some Miami bass. But as always, it's about the vocals. And Ludacris manages to mix his forceful, gruff delivery, with some silly falsetto bits, some goofy lines, and a really stuttered syncopated unique flow, that borrows from No Limit but ultimately is all Ludacris. The sound is sort of 'gangsta' but at the same time it's so over the top it's almost like he's showing us he knows how ridiculous that shit is, but he thinks it's fun and 'it ain't hurtin nobody'. Like Ice Cube he still peppers the record with 'bitch's and 'dick's and 'nigga's and 'ho's (especially the latter) but again, it's so completely goofy, you can't really take it too seriously. In fact, he kinda takes the 'ho' thing far enough that it *really* seems like maybe he's making fun of it, the same way the skit on here wherein "random white people" try to rap Ludacris' greatest hits kinda makes fun of Ludacris' lyrics as much as it does the white folks' dopey "off-beat-as-fuck" delivery. But if lots of dick/shit/bitch/ho stuff weirds you out then steer clear, he's not named LEWDacris for nothin'. But if you're cruising around in a lowered El Camino with dubs, tinted windows and a booming sytem, or if you're like me and just wish that you were, this is the shit for you.
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