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With each having individual obligations all over the place, it took ten years for Method Man and Redman to record a follow-up to 1999's beloved Blackout!, but one listen and you'd think it had only been ten days. Interplay during the intro proves that none of the chemistry is lost, then the slow-grinding "I'm Dope Ni**a" declares that happy and horribly high days are here again, with mentions of Club Nouveau plus Tango & Cash putting a date stamp on the duo. Their fine vintage is displayed two tracks later when "Dangerous MCees" spits "Even Herbie Hancock know where to Rockit" over a beat that's identifiably Erick Sermon. It's topped by the Phyllis Hyman loop Pete Rock cuts for the preceding track, "A-Yo," a superior weekend anthem featuring Saukrates from Redman's Gilla House group. With the sound of the South having exploded since the first Blackout!, the hypnotic highlight "City Lights" with guest Bun B plus a UGK sample is identifiable as post-2000. Also of its time is the dreaded Auto-Tune device, which corrects some pitch here and there, although its polish is negated on "I Know Sumptn" by the very Redman lyric "Check my bowel baby/This is the mother load." Mentions of riding jet skis on land and all sorts of other absurdities sit next to innovative viewpoints on sleaze, then "Dis Iz 4 All My Smokers" does the weed song right as the blunt brothers roll over a DJ Scratch track that sounds heavily influenced by RZA. Speaking of Wu-Tang members, Raekwon and Ghostface appear on the key cut "Four Minutes to Lock Down," an intense barrage of Shaolin lyrics that helps anchor an album that's often just a party on wax. The original deserves the top spot, but think of this as the Godfather Part II of reckless boom-bap rap and you've got an idea of how well this Blackout! satisfies.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
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Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Casey James, ComposerLyricist - Leroy Bell, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jack Robinson, ComposerLyricist - Thomas Bell, ComposerLyricist - Redman, MainArtist - Ronald Bean, ComposerLyricist - Allah Mathematics, Producer
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, ComposerLyricist - Havoc, Producer - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Kejuan Waliek Muchita, ComposerLyricist - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Casey James, ComposerLyricist - Leroy Bell, ComposerLyricist - Pete Rock, Producer - Saukrates, FeaturedArtist - Method Man, MainArtist - Jack Robinson, ComposerLyricist - Thomas Bell, ComposerLyricist - Redman, MainArtist - Peter Phillips, ComposerLyricist - Gimel Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - K. Wailoo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Erick Sermon, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Keith Murray, FeaturedArtist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Swiff D, Producer - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Dana Stinson, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Jason Boyd, ComposerLyricist - Rockwilder, Producer - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Poo Bear, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Marvin Isley, ComposerLyricist - Christopher Jasper, ComposerLyricist - Ernest Isley, ComposerLyricist - Bun B, FeaturedArtist - Reggie Noble, ComposerLyricist - Chad Butler, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - Ronald Isley, ComposerLyricist - RUDOLPH ISLEY, ComposerLyricist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - O'Kelly Isley Jr., ComposerLyricist - Nasty Kutt, Producer - Christopher Barriere, ComposerLyricist - Bernard James Freeman, ComposerLyricist - William Larsen, ComposerLyricist - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Tyrone Fyffe, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, ComposerLyricist - Ty Fyffe, Producer - Method Man, MainArtist - JOE SIMON, ComposerLyricist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Lou Savage, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - King Sterling, ComposerLyricist - Aseneth Peck, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Reggie Noble, Producer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Saukrates, FeaturedArtist - Method Man, MainArtist - Redman, MainArtist - David "Gordo" Strickland, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Tanisha Green, FeaturedArtist - Michelle Pinckney, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Anthony Best, ComposerLyricist - John Hill, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - BUCKWILD, Producer - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Erick Sermon, Recording Engineer, FeaturedArtist, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - John Atkins, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Randy Ousley, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Streetlife, FeaturedArtist - Patrick Charles, ComposerLyricist - Ready Roc, FeaturedArtist - Vinny Idol, Producer - Armon Johnson, ComposerLyricist - David "Gordo" Strickland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - George Spivey, ComposerLyricist - Bill Withers, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - DJ Scratch, Producer - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Reggie Noble, Producer, Recording Engineer, FeaturedArtist, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - DJ Kayslay, FeaturedArtist - Method Man, MainArtist - Redman, MainArtist - Ready Roc, FeaturedArtist - David "Gordo" Strickland, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - C.O Ellis, FeaturedArtist
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Corey Woods, ComposerLyricist - Dennis Coles, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Roosevelt Harrell, ComposerLyricist - Bink, Producer - Buzz Clifford, ComposerLyricist - Ghostface Killah, FeaturedArtist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Raekwon, FeaturedArtist - Anthony "Acid" Caputo, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - David "Gordo" Strickland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Erick Sermon, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel, ComposerLyricist - Claudio Cueni, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jason Boyd, ComposerLyricist - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Poo Bear, FeaturedArtist - King David, Producer - David Manzoor, ComposerLyricist - David "Gordo" Strickland, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Clifford Smith, ComposerLyricist - Dana Stinson, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, ComposerLyricist - Rockwilder, Producer - Method Man, MainArtist - Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, Mix Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Redman, MainArtist - Melanie Rutherford, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - Chris Grayson, ComposerLyricist - Khateeb Muhammad, ComposerLyricist - Justin Rossi, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Will "hookdiggy" Bearyman, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chris n Teeb, Producer
℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Album review
With each having individual obligations all over the place, it took ten years for Method Man and Redman to record a follow-up to 1999's beloved Blackout!, but one listen and you'd think it had only been ten days. Interplay during the intro proves that none of the chemistry is lost, then the slow-grinding "I'm Dope Ni**a" declares that happy and horribly high days are here again, with mentions of Club Nouveau plus Tango & Cash putting a date stamp on the duo. Their fine vintage is displayed two tracks later when "Dangerous MCees" spits "Even Herbie Hancock know where to Rockit" over a beat that's identifiably Erick Sermon. It's topped by the Phyllis Hyman loop Pete Rock cuts for the preceding track, "A-Yo," a superior weekend anthem featuring Saukrates from Redman's Gilla House group. With the sound of the South having exploded since the first Blackout!, the hypnotic highlight "City Lights" with guest Bun B plus a UGK sample is identifiable as post-2000. Also of its time is the dreaded Auto-Tune device, which corrects some pitch here and there, although its polish is negated on "I Know Sumptn" by the very Redman lyric "Check my bowel baby/This is the mother load." Mentions of riding jet skis on land and all sorts of other absurdities sit next to innovative viewpoints on sleaze, then "Dis Iz 4 All My Smokers" does the weed song right as the blunt brothers roll over a DJ Scratch track that sounds heavily influenced by RZA. Speaking of Wu-Tang members, Raekwon and Ghostface appear on the key cut "Four Minutes to Lock Down," an intense barrage of Shaolin lyrics that helps anchor an album that's often just a party on wax. The original deserves the top spot, but think of this as the Godfather Part II of reckless boom-bap rap and you've got an idea of how well this Blackout! satisfies.
© David Jeffries /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 00:57:45
- Main artists: Method Man Redman
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Def Jam Recordings
- Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap
© 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group ℗ 2009 The Island Def Jam Music Group
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