This will be one of the more "regular" posts you'll see here, but I'm feeling a tad lazy about doing a longer writeup, and I haven't gotten around to doing another round of photo shoots. This was NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal's first crack at hip-hop, and it's gotten a notorious reputation for being one of the worst hip-hop records of all time, a reputation I would say is, for the most part, undeserved. While plenty of Shaq's lines throughout are stupid or otherwise poorly conceived, he has a good enough, and relatively consistent, flow to keep it from sounding abysmal, the production is solid, and the guest stars (particularly Phife Dawg and the Fu-Schnickens) really hold this album together. People shit on this album a lot, but it isn't really that difficult to find worse hip-hop than this; anything Silkk The Shocker has ever done, for example, is a thousand times worse. Plus, Shaq's rapping got better as he continued releasing albums.
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Intro
5. I Hate 2 Brag
6. Let Me In, Let Me In
7. Shoot Pass Slam
9. Are You A Roughneck?
10. Giggin' On Em (feat. Phife Dawg)
12. Game Over
As a bonus, I did this neat cover photo for My Mad Music Corner's Facebook page, accessible up there in the sidebar, that I just wanted to share on the blog as well. I hope you all dig it.
