Hooking up with the Neptunes again was a near certainty, but in addition to this Mystikal has brought in Rockwilder to the work the boards on a couple of tracks, and also employed the talents of his old homies the Medicine Men (formerly Beats By The Pound). The first thing to grab you on listening to this album is the hot beats. So with this in mind I approached this new release with an open mind, but also with a cautious eye on the clock, not wanting to expose those pretty little pink wings on the side of my head to anything more than necessary. His rasping style seems to get nothing but love from some heads, but to this listener’s “raised-on-Big-Daddy-Kane” ears, I gotta admit that it really grates after a while. He’s the only rapper who sounds like Dolemite, only AFTER swallowing three or four buckets of gravel. You see, even with hot beats Mystikal is an acquired taste. Once the gloss had worn off the two lead singles though, I quickly found that the rest of the album didn’t really stand up to repeated listening. When Mystikal bounced from No Limit, and released “Lets Get Ready”, I have to admit I was attracted by the bouncy feel of the two Neptunes cuts ‘Shake Ya Ass’ and ‘Danger’, and so I picked the album up.
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