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- Summary: Fat Joe's latest album features Busta Rhymes, Clipse, Cam'ron, Lil Wayne, Rico Love, TA, Too Short, Trey Songz, and Young Jeezy as guests.
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- Record Label: E1 Entertainment
- Genre(s): Rap, Gangsta Rap, East Coast Rap, Hardcore Rap
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Positive: 5 out of 6
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Mixed: 1 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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His inspiration trails off slightly toward the end, but at least half of these tracks will delight purists.
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The Bronx native's tenth LP is consumed by legacy: his lengthy career, his harrowing life, and his craft.
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While the pull of the charts is hard to resist, the tracks with Primo and Just Blaze show he knows where his heart truly is, while the rest of the album tries and either fails or succeeds at pulling him away from the grime, grease and grit of the street corner.
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Whether it works or not depends on whether you're in the love him or the hate him camp, but no compromise is just what his fans signed up for in the first place. The Darkside, Vol. 1 is a mean beast of an album that will surely make Joe's army re-enlist for Vol. 2.
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Joe is one of the last remaining beasts from the East, and as he demonstrates on the DJ Premier ringer "I'm Gone" and "At Last Supremacy" with Busta, he sounds better in his back yard than he does in trying to appease pedestrians with unnecessary Wayne and Jeezy cameos.
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Unlike Rick Ross, who entertainingly describes his (completely fictitious) exploits in fantastically opulent terms, Joe brags with a dullness that betrays how often he's repeated this story. And the production seems dated all the way down to Kilo, which uses a sample that Ghostface Killah and Raekwon employed to much grimier effect in 2006.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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Aug 31, 2010
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Jan 27, 2011
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