Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar (2007)

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can't fuckin wait... ... o sa rupa... albumu nr. 2 dupa cel a lui Common, pe anu' asta...

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nu puteti sa faceti rost de undeva de 15 years on Death Row? pls..

There's not much left for Death Row to do these days other than "define" their hip-hop legacy. After a long and controversial reign as Death Row's CEO, Suge Knight has been forced to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy for his company. This is largely due to a $107 million lawsuit filed in 2005 by Lydia Harris, who asserted that her incarcerated husband provided $1.5 million in start-up money for the label. Knight apparently thought the claims were frivolous as he didn't even bother to make scheduled court appearances regarding the case, causing the presiding judge to issue summary judgment in favor of the plantiff. As a result the company is now being gutted in bankruptcy procedings, both figuratively and literally. Even their supposedly official website has been stripped down to a blank page that reads "coming soon" in plain text. That's bad news for Petey Pablo as the unreleased album he recorded for Death Row (allgedly titled "Same Eyez On Me") will probably never see the light of day, and for any other artists who made the mistake of signing with the label in the last few years. On the other hand that may be good news for hip-hop fans, since there's nothing left to do now but unearth every unrelased track, 12" B-side and remix to sell them in CD form. Time to clean out the vaults and see what's left.

It should be noted that even as the once Titanic label starts to slip beneath the waves, they still unrepentantly lie to consumers to steal their hard-earned dollars. This three disc set promises 4 "Best Buy exclusive" tracks out of 17 on the first disc but only has 13 tracks, which makes fulfilling this promise physically impossible. "So what? That just means they're free downloads." Sorry dear reader, put that thought out of your mind. There are no download instructions to be found anywhere in this set either on the shrinkwrap or tucked inside the case. What's worse is that this throws off the tracklisting because the very first song on the disc is supposed to be "One Eight Seven," an updated version of "Deep Cover" that was only available on the "Fuck Wit Dre Day" single. With that track excised, the real opener is "Nuttin But a 'G' Thang," still a fat jam over 14 years after "The Chronic" dropped, but not the exclusive you expected. The titles themselves are misleading even when accurate, such as "Let Me Ride" actually being the remix which features Snoop Dogg and Daz. Conversely "Gin and Juice" is alleged to feature Daz, which would make it the same as the remix from "Death Row's Greatest Hits," but instead it's the original version. For historical purposes it's vexing to see "G'z Up, Hoes Down" described as "unreleased" on the cover, when in fact it originally appeared on "Doggystyle" and was removed from later printings of the album due to an uncleared sample. Even for a company in the throes of bankruptcy this amount of errors, mistakes, lies and omissions is simply inexcusable. And just in case you're wondering the other three "exclusives" that weren't included on disc one are Daz Dillinger's "Don't Try to Play Me," Snoop Dogg's "Wanted Dead or Alive" and Tha Dogg Pound's "New York, New York." It's incredibly frustrating that the liner notes provide descriptions for all of these unincluded songs. Knight is an ASS.

It gets only slightly better on the second disc. The track listing is accurate including the two "exclusives" actually being included as promise at the 15th and 16th position - 2Pac's "Life is a Traffic Jam" and Nate Dogg's "Why" respectively. Neither one is that "exclusive" in reality though, as both songs are on the "Gridlock'd" soundtrack, which most hardcore Death Row fans will already have in their collection. It's much more notable that the "unexclusive" song "Puffin' on Blunts and Drankin' Tanqueray" is included, another song which was tucked away on the "Fuck Wit Dre Day" single and may not have reached the ears of the masses. While one can't argue that you should buy this entire set just for this song, at the very least you can pick up the track a la carte on iTunes to peep the dopeness. The deep bassline warbles and reverberates through your skeleton even at low volumes, and only gets more intense the more you crank it up, not unlike The Lady of Rage's lyrical explosion:

"Always and forever, forever and always
The rhythm will flow, from now and through all days
As long as the sun shines
As long as Eisenhower's on the dime
Yo, I'll be kickin the rhyme
One time for your mind, your soul, your body
D-O-G's on the side of me, smooth as E & J, hard as Bacardi
Smackin those yaddy-yackin ducks that keep quackin
Heads that are cacklin, end up cracklin
under the heat, the pressure from the one that's deffer
Egyptian ruler, call me Cleo or Nefertiti, yes indeedi
Got the eyes that are beedie, body from Tahiti
Voice of the wind, lyrics blow
Chills up ya spine, dicin slow
All thoughts in your mind drop 'em, yo
You came in the front, but you'll be kicked through the back door
for tryin to step, tryin to come incorrect
Tryin to play the left, tryin to start a mess
Tryin to cause fuss, tryin to raise a ruckus, huh
You'll end up ashes to ashes, dust to dust
A busta, you musta been buggin on drugs and alcohol
Back off, all a y'all, up against the wall
Spread 'em, Dogg, go get 'em
Handcuff 'em and stuff 'em, cold shut 'em, don't let 'em
utter a word, not your mother or herb
If you try you die, visions blurred, speech slurred
Served! With a cherry on top
Rage in effect I just begun to rock"

There are a lot of classics to be found on this part of the set; in fact it's arguable that this disc could have been sold seperately and been a fine album. 2Pac's "Pain" from the "Above the Rim" soundtrack, Daz's "O.G." featuring Nate Dogg and Snoop, the unapologetically raunchy "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)" and the somber "Murder Was the Case (Remix)" are just a few of the many gems to be found here. After nearly blowing the whole deal right out the gate, "15 Years on Death Row" redeems itself with this portion of the three disc set. There's still more material to go though, and the third part of this epic saga is actually the best value to be found in the whole compilation - a DVD featuring TWENTY-FOUR classic Death Row music videos. Throw this disc in the DVD player of your choice, be it a standalone unit or a PC, and you're presented with a simple menu that has two options: "select video" and "play all." While you ponder this intensely difficult choice, the lilting instrumental of "Nuttin But a 'G' Thang" plays in the background. Many of the choices here are better "exclusives" than the tracks Knight failed to deliver on the first disc. This writer can't honestly recall ever having seen a music video for the "Afro Puffs (Remix)" before, or the "Californa Love (Remix)" video which is actually part two of the original Thunderdome-esque video, wherein 'Pac describes everything from the original to Dr. Dre as "this crazy dream." You can't go wrong with any of the choices here though - Nate Dogg & Warren G's "Regulate," 2Pac's "How Do U Want It," the haunting "I Ain't Mad at Cha" and the epic mini-movies of "Natural Born Killaz" and "Murder Was the Case."

On the whole despite the unacceptable errors and misleading promises to be found reading the back cover of "15 Years on Death Row," this set actually delivers very good value for the money. During their heyday Death Row were kingpins of gangster rap, having the entire world at their fingertips in the form of the best beats, best MC's, and best music videos with the best directors possible to present it all to the public. It's a little sad when one takes in the whole scope of this set to think how much potential Death Row had to carry this legacy into the 21st Century, yet the harder Suge Knight tried to hold onto his empire the more quickly it crumbled in his hands as one by one artists left the label or met an untimely demise. Death Row has in reality been a dead entity for a while now, struggling in vain to survive off pimping unreleased 2Pac tracks and repackaging nostalgia, but "15 Years on Death Row" seems to at last be putting the epitaph on the tombstone for good. It reads as follows: "Here lies Death Row, the label that shook the world but died far too young at the age of 15 - R.I.P."

Music Vibes: 8 of 10 DVD Vibes: 9 of 10 TOTAL Vibes: 8.5 of 10

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A aparut retail-ul. E senzatie.

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Sean Price Interview
Author: Adam Bernard

From Heltah Skeltah to Boot Camp Clik to 2005's critically acclaimed "Monkey Barz", Sean Price has made a name for himself in Hip-Hop over the past decade plus. On January 30th he's releasing another solo effort, "Jesus Price Superstar." In anticipation of this album dropping we caught up with Sean Price to discuss "Jesus Price Superstar", how and why his style has changed over the years, and why he once considered himself "protector of the nerds."


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Adam Bernard: First off tell me about "Jesus Price Superstar." How long have you been working on the project?
Sean Price: Honestly, Jesus Price was done before the Boot Camp album, before "The Last Stand." I just sat on it, tweaked it and waited until after the Boot Camp album came out. We decided to put the Boot Camp album out first to kinda give shit a close. We did the triple threat, which was "Monkey Barz", "Chemistry", and "Reloaded", so we wanted to end that whole series with the Boot Camp album and then come with the Sean Price album, and next will be a Buckshot album.

AB: So what can people expect from "Jesus Price Superstar"?
SP: It's like boom. "Monkey Barz" is Barry Bonds when was on the Pirates.

AB: Back when he was skinny.
SP: Yeah. Then Jesus Price is the BALCO Barry.

AB: So you're all roided up for this album.
SP: Yeah, I'm hittin 'em out the park left and right. It's so sick they're like "yo this guy's on steroids."

AB: Just watch out man, on your next album you'll have bad knees.
SP: I know, right! It'll mess my knees up and I might have shrinkage of my manhood, too. Gotta be careful.

AB: Did you have a concept going in for this record, and if so what was it?
SP: No. My whole plan was I wanted to put out two solo albums before we did another Heltah Skeltah album. I didn't want people to think I was just doing a solo album until me and Rock got our shit together, or whatever. Nah, I'm a solo artist for real, forever. I wanted to let you know that the first one wasn't a fluke. I do this all day. That's why I put out another one. And now I'm ready for the Heltah Skeltah album.

"We could do a hundred more Heltah Skeltah albums and there's gonna be hundred more Sean Price albums. I'm not playin."


AB: So the concept sounds like it's "I'm a solo artist, respect that."
SP: Yeah, respect it, this is me. We could do a hundred more Heltah Skeltah albums and there's gonna be hundred more Sean Price albums. I'm not playin.

AB: You've been through a lot of changes as a person since Heltah Skeltah first dropped "Nocturnal." Talk to me about some of the events that have shaped your life and career since then.
SP: I think I rhyme better. I feel I'm much nicer than the first two Heltah Skeltah albums. I feel I'm more creative, I think more, I'm more grown up. I'm a man. Just because you're 18 or 21 doesn't make you a man. I'm a man. I take care of my family, I take care of my wife, I take care of the house. I'm a man. I do man things. I'm more responsible.

AB: You said you think you rhyme better. How would you say your style has changed over the years?
SP: I just think I'm more confident with my shit. I do rhyme better.

AB: Did it just come from years and years of rhyming and developing the style?
SP: Yeah, it could be. You know what I had to get comfortable in my own skin. When I did "Nocturnal" people liked it, but my friends hated that shit because I'm not one of those kinda dudes. I'm a street dude and my shit wasn't as street as they were expecting, they were like "yo son what's wrong with you?" Then Reasonable Doubt came out and my man was like "you hear this shit? This is what the fuck you're supposed to be doing. Nigga what the fuck is wrong with you? You over there talking this crazy slippity slip bullshit." And I understood what they meant because I am a street dude, I've been in a lot of shit in the hood and it wasn't reflected on the album at all, so I came out with "Magnum Force" and tried to make up for it but that ain't really work neither. So I had to figure out how I'ma keep it me and at the same time not lose that Heltah Skeltah shit that people like.

AB: You want to keep as many people happy as possible.
SP: Yeah, so I figured it out with "Monkey Barz."

AB: Yeah and Duck Down has seen a resurgence over the past year or so. Why do you feel this is and where do you see the label headed in 2007?
SP: I just think we're on our job. Like I said, there was a gap between "Magnum Force" and "Monkey Barz", that little gap… I went through hell, b. I was assed out, no money, I was on my face. Then I started hustling again, doing stupid shit, getting money. And it was getting corny. I was like "yo man what I'ma do, man? Am I going to be a hustler or am I really going to take this rap shit seriously?" So I took this rap shit seriously and went in.

AB: At what age did that epiphany happen?
SP: Mid-20's.

"There were a lot of groups out when me and Rock came out, I ain't sayin no names but ain't none of 'em around no more really. Test of time. "


AB: With all those changes why do you feel you and the other Duck Down artists have enjoyed such longevity when most of the artists that were hot when "Nocturnal" came out are long gone now?
SP: Yeah cuz it's the test of time. There were a lot of groups out when me and Rock came out, I ain't sayin no names but ain't none of 'em around no more really. Test of time. Some of 'em probably still nice but they're so frustrated with the game that they just don't give a fuck. I felt like that for a minute, but I felt like the game kinda needed me because ain't nobody doing Hip-Hop like I'm doing. There might be a few, as far as like Ghost, but not too many, we're rare.

AB: And it seems weird now that New York seems to get ignored a little bit. Do you even care, as a city, what we have to do to get back?
SP: I don't care about that New York coming back shit. I ain't with all that. I don't give a fuck about that. My music is good, b. And I'm from New York, that's how they represent. Just get busy.

"I know some dudes that live in Germany that are nicer than a motherfucker. It doesn't matter. Good Hip-Hop is good Hip-Hop."


AB: Have we gotten to a point in Hip-Hop where location shouldn't matter at all?
SP: Yeah. I know some dudes that live in Germany that are nicer than a motherfucker. It doesn't matter. Good Hip-Hop is good Hip-Hop. Saukrates, he's from Canada and he's awesome. I fucks with good Hip-Hop, it don't matter where you from. I ain't got no problem with no down south niggas. Do I listen to snap music? Nah, I don't listen to that shit. But am I mad at it? Nah, that's what y'all do, so do it. I'm not gonna do it, and even if I don't like it, I don't like it, but am I going to protest it? Nah, just cuz you don't respect something doesn't mean you have to go out of your way to disrespect it. Do your thing.

"I'm a nerd. I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, I'm on the computer all the time. I was always a bright kid at school..."


AB: Finally, tell us something about Sean Price that people may not know already.
SP: I'm a nerd. I read a lot, watch a lot of TV, I'm on the computer all the time. I was always a bright kid at school, I was always in the top class, it was just that I was one of them niggas that used to get beat up all time. You get tired of getting beat up, then you start learning how to fight and start beatin niggas up yourself. That's the only thing. I'm a nerd who knows how to fight very well. Once I learned how to fight well, and was still a nerd, I became the protector of the nerds.

AB: That is definitely something people probably don't know about you. And when you're a nerd you have a larger vocabulary for rapping.
SP: Exactly! That's why I spit how I spit. You gotta know somethin to say somethin anyway. That's why a lot of these dudes' rhymes are limited, because they don't know shit. There's street shit but there's more than just the street, man. Pick up a book, read something, expand your mind, learn something.

AB: Yeah, if I hear one more rapper rhyme party with Bacardi I'm gonna throw my radio out the window.
SP: I feel you. That shit is crazy. There's so much more to life than the street. Don't get it twisted, most of my rhymes are "I'ma smack the shit out you." I definitely carry guns in my rhymes, but there's more to it than that. And really I think everybody raps about the same shit, it's just how you put your spin on it. I think everything's been said almost, I just think it's how a motherfucker put his spin on it now.

[adapter]

haha

3. What is Sean P. saying? Who knows? The charismatic Brooklyn rhyme spitter doesn't himself. SOHH recently caught up with P, a day before he was slated to fly overseas for several European dates. So how exactly does P come up with all those bugged out rhymes? "I don't know, man. I be in the studio sometimes writing some shit and you'll hear the little evil laugh. I can't explain it. I'm surprised every time too. Like ya'll be....so am I," P told SOHH. "I listen to my shit, b. Sometimes I forget it's me. I put it in and listen and I'm like, "Who the fuck is that?" You heard 'Like You' right? I got, 'Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to fuck with/Boot Camp Clik Ain't Nothing to Wu-Tang/Niggas seem surprised by the way that I do things/song with Destiny's Child, I still ride the 2 train.'" "Niggas be like, 'what the fuck you mean?' I be like, 'you know what? I don't know what I mean,'" P continued. "It sound kinda funny, but I didn't diss them. But it just sounds funny that a nigga might go yo, 'fuck you mean yo!' I don't know. When you ask me and I say I don't know, I really mean that. It is what it is though. But I know how to fight though, remember that. I punch through school buses, straight music. So you run up on me like that if you want to."

[game101]

bah e tare de tot albumu

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da god .. nuff said

[DFB]

Sean Price is back once again to further solidify his unlikely success in the rap game. Calling his success unlikely isn't a jab at the man or his skills, but when Duck Down Records announced it's triumphant return few would have picked "Monkey Barz" to be the most successful of the planned releases that year. But lo and behold, the former Heltah Skeltah rapper beat out the return of a legendary group (Smif and Wesson) and the unification of two critically acclaimed artists (Buckshot and 9th Wonder) to claim the top spot on the Duck Down roster. Back in 2007, Sean Price hopes to recapitalize on that hype and once again deliver a successful album. As with any rapper who meets success, questions arise the second time around concerning how success will affect the product. It's only natural that after being so highly lauded Sean Price may not be as hungry and might let some of it go to his head. The album's title implies that maybe, just maybe, Sean Price may be a little cockier this time around – but is that necessarily a bad thing?

On "Intro (Jesus Price)" Sean Price comes out hitting hard with vicious lyrics which I would provide for you here had the label not found it necessary to watermark the promo copy with "Sean Price "Jesus Price Superstar" in stores January 30, 2007 presented by duck down…" every 30 seconds or so. I don't have the patience to decipher Sean Price while being constantly distracted, but at least the readers now know when the album drops. Don't get me wrong, labels have to do what they feel will lessen the chance of bootlegging but next time around they need to make sure the watermark doesn't completely drown out the music. With the complaining out of the way we can get to the star of the show. If you're not familiar with Sean Price, formerly Ruck of Heltah Skeltah, there really shouldn't be a reason not to cop this unless you absolutely detest gritty street raps delivered cleverly and with style. The distinctiveness in Price's style comes from his impeccable timing which would rival that of the best comedians. See, Price knows exactly when to pause to let his lyrics sink in and when to keep hitting you with line after line to just blow you away. Given the high quality of his lyrics, Price usually resorts to the constant barrage that leaves a lasting impression on the listener.

Various tracks are noteworthy on Price's sophomore effort, including "P-Body" which finds Sean Price reuniting with Rock and delivering a dope track thanks in large part of 9th Wonder's production. 10 provides the production for another fresh collaboration as Sean Price teams with Sadat X and Buckshot on "Da God." While Sadat X sounds a bit average when he delves into tired street brags, his voice is enough to set him apart. As mentioned before, 9th Wonder lends a hand and is just the tip of the Little Brother/Justus League influence that is heavy on "Jesus Price Superstar." Along with Wonder's 5 beats, Khrysis delivers 3 and Phonte and Chaundon both make appearances. Often compared to the boom-bap rap that dominated during Duck Down's hey day, it's no surprise that 9th Wonder and Little Brother would fit in with the Boot Camp Clik. Even so, one has to wonder whether such extensive collaborations diminishes the distinctiveness of both camps.

Overall, Sean Price is still in top form on "Jesus Price Superstar." If you agreed with Nin Chan's assessment of last year's "Monkey Barz" then the mix of producers this time around will surely sound like an improvement, at least on paper. Personally I thought the production was top notch back then and continues to be so. Price does feel comfortable treading the same street tales he presented the first time around, but once again his style and humor allows him to do so and not sound repetitive. As much as rapping about the streets has become the norm nowadays, one has to admit that as long as the situation doesn't better the topic needs to be at the forefront. With that said, tracks like "Mess You Made" and "Oops Upside Your Head" provide enough variety to keep things interesting. Like I said before, there's not much reason not to peep Sean Price unless you absolutely hate gritty East Coast rap and if that's the case you can't really call yourself much of a rap fan.

Music Vibes: 8.5 of 10 Lyric Vibes: 8.5 of 10 TOTAL Vibes: 8.5 of 10

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