Return of Boosie Bad Azz

I really liked Lil Boosie when i first heard of him back in 2005/2006. Although practise makes perfect, and having success will buy you better beats, theres a hunger to a new rapper that is difficult to sustain when you have a million dollar mansion and 10 cars. Lil Boosie had that hunger, that New Orleans hunger to be exact. And Boosies still a bad ass,  rocking the same fade haircut. He may have a big ass gold watch but he dont live in no million dollar mansion, he still reps the one-story run down building in Baton Rouge. Currently on house arrest on weapon charges, which means he has to stay at home to make videos like this

Theres a rawness and a hunger, gold chains and guns, but  also a connection to the poor community he grew up in. A social commentary of sorts. The only thing i can really compare it to is the early days of Cash Money records:

Now Boosie makes his return, and it’s starts off triumphant. More money and more popularity means you can afford a Runners beat, opener “My avenue” which is great, but does suffer a bit from the guest spots of Lil’Phat and Lil”Trill. Follower “Top notch” is really top notch, and no one would blame you if you thought it was Juvenile on the chorus. Third track “Better Believe” should be the album banger, with Young Jeezy and Webbie as guests. Unfortunately it kinda looses speed, and gets a bit too commercial. Things get better with the introspective “Lawd have mercy”, and the hard “I’m a dog”.  “No mercy”, and “Levis” both produced by B-Real are slower but somewhat saved by Lil boosies talent and raw agressive style. Unfortunately the tempos stays slow on “Bullshit” which is followed by two commercial tracks for the ladies, and then a soft track about his family. This is  the only problem with this release, you can’t blame a hustler for wanting to get money, but it’s obvious Boosie hasnt made the girlie tracks because the subject matter is dear to him, but because he wants to get that guap. And i respect him for the introspective tracks, but they are far too soft for me. There another bangers in “Loose as a goose” but the rest of the album, is either too slow or too poorly produced. Still they might grow on me.

Bottom line; its not a perfect album. I don’t listen to Boosie for love songs, or put on a deep track when drinking  my tea on the porch, looking at the sunset over the lake. I listen to Boosie cause i want hard hype tracks. And theres enough of them to make me happy,ill just have to program the cd player to skip the rest.