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RE: RE: WOAT Mobb Deep Album

I did a little piece on the WOAT (Worst of All Time) Mobb Deep album a couple days ago, which apparently drew the interest/ire/musing of fellow Young Republican HL of Lattisawtapes.com, who wrote out a lengthy rebuttal over on his own mother ship, which you can read HERE.

I actually didn’t even know he had A) read my piece nor B) replied to it, but as both of us are Mobb Deep stans and fans of good music in general (although he stans for Gunplay, but I don’t hold it against him), there is a fundamental disagreement that we have had (and Deen too, but he’s a hater of all things talented) concerning Mobb Deep albums. I rebutted his assertions in his comment section, but I decided they were worth repeating here. Check em out, and think about the last time you actually listened to “Dog Shit”… yea, I thought so.

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MY REBUTTAL:

Several areas of disagreement here:

#1 G-Unit Weed Carriers »»» Mobb Deep Cocaine/Pill/Dust Carriers.

Ain’t no one with a decent ear for music gonna tell me Banks, Buck and Yayo (as well as the Curtis features) didn’t ENHANCE the songs they were on, nor is anyone gonna put Ila Ghee (roffs) Big Twin, and Littles (who they didn’t even fuck with anymore post-Infamy) in the same category or caliber as those rappers as artists or talents. 

#2. Prodigy EXPLICITLY states in his Autobiography that Curtis HAD NOTHING TO DO with the music or DIRECTION of the Mobb album. He gave them TWO Dr. Dre beats- Outta Control & Nightmares, which for whatever reason, they didn’t use. You read that autobiography and you know this, so I don’t know why you made that BASELESS claim.

#3. Alan the Chemist isn’t a better producer than Havoc. Never has, never will be. Like I said, Havocs production was consistant with most mobb albums, and if anything, this was their most cohesive sounding album SINCE Infamy, and guess who handled the bulk of the production on there? 

#4. Nas hasn’t been on a Mobb Deep song since “Its Mine”, and that song was a bonus cut recorded because Murda Muzik was leaked and bootlegged early. Blame Nasir for him not choosing to sign over his vocals and be a hater, not the mobb for not using it.

and that Mary song was dope, quit fronting.

#5. The best of Blood Money»» The best of Amerika’s Nightmare. Its not a contest AT ALL. Creep, Put Em In They Place, Click Click, Stole Something, The Infamous »»> Whatever the fuck is on Amerikas Nightmare.

#6 Curtis didn’t censor Pearly Gates, Jimmy did. Once again, Albert addressed that very issue in his book. And David got his album pushed back because Clifford used that same Crystal Waters sample he had planned for his single first. 

#7. Point blank period- no one gave that record a chance simply because who they were signed too. Nothing more, nothing less. If they took the time to LISTEN to it, then it wouldn’t be a contest- Blood Money is a superior album, top to bottom in comparison to Amerika’s Nightmare, which is a disjointed mess of region hopping, trend following nonsense that outside of Got It Twisted isn’t worth the CD it was recorded on.

FACT.


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