[Music] Z-Ro New Cd "Crack"

I'm gonna check it out. Hope it's good.

 

I didn't know it was out already. His last few CDs have been pretty good, my biggest complaint has been that they are so short. I think Life of Joseph McVey was barely 50 minutes long.

 

I'll buy it on the 30th, along with Paper Trail.

 

Wow, is this an official album? Didn't even know we was dropping a new cd. Sounds like trademark Rap-A-Lot marketing to me.

 

It was sold out at Best Buy, but I found it at Circuit City.

Definitely a weird album.

First song after the intro is called Baby Girl and it is a very non-Z-Ro beat. With a background singer. The whole time he raps about how he is in love and is a one woman man. The whole song talks about how happy he is and that he found someone that makes him happy and wants to spend the rest of his life with her and how she is first and foremost his best friend.

Good for him and all, but DAMN?!! Z-Ro??? Singing about a girl? Lost some street cred in that song. I bet Z-ro really doesn't care about what an upper-middle class white boy thinks though.

The rest of the cd sounds like an old screw tape. It's weird the transition.

The first two songs are overproduced with the rest sounding like they were recorded in a basement. Even the album work looks loke it was just thrown together. The songs are out of order from how they are on the cd on the track listing on the back. If you didn't know, there is no way anyone would guess this is a studio album.

I think this is the first Z-Ro cd I would ever give a C rating. He doesn't have any sick fast flows and is singing wayy too much in his raps.

But hey, it's still better than 90% of the garbage out there.

 

It probably was. His last album, King of the Ghetto (Power), was recorded at his home. You could actually hear the smoke detector beeping throughout the album because of low battery.

 

KOTG was a mixtape though. For a studio album, generally you get better sound quality.

 

I listened to most of it on the way home and I wasn't very impressed. It seems that he ran out of stuff to say because in a lot of his songs he just repeats the same, worn-out, recycled phrases.

 

thats rap today

 

I picked up the second to last copy at Best Buy. Yeah the feel of the CD is weird, but I like it. "Don't Call My Phone" is my favorite song probably followed by 25 Lighters.

BTW, I think the original CD cover was scrapped because it had someone smoking a crack pipe.

 

How does the new cover look?

 

Why it's called Crack? Cuz that's the new word, *****.

 

What does he mean by 25 lighters? I been wondering what that song means for years now. Is he talkin bout 25 guns?