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Charge
It 2 Da Game
Silkk The Shocker |
I won't lie, Charge
it 2 Da Game is not a completely barren No Limit effort. It
was produced at the height of No Limit's mysterious rise to the
top of the rap game. It has one great song and some others that
are worth checking out. The variety is amazing, but it really is
a lot of No Limit trash.
Silkk, being the brother
of Master P, does not have a shred of talent. However, there are
a few songs that I really dig on here. "I'm a Soldier",
"Throw Yo Hood Up", "It Ain't My Fault",
and "How Many…" are all really good songs.
"It Ain't My Fault" actually crosses the threshhold
into being a great song. It's heavily hard edge, has a lot of good
rappers on it, and minimally features Silkk. Mystikal tears it up
on here, it really could be a Mystikal song.
"Throw Yo Hood
Up" is a tight song. The beat is hyped and Snoop Dogg does
some of his best work since Doggfather. It sounds like a Snoop song.
Silkk also manages not to stink the joint up. On this album, he
has a slight sense of the beat. Post-Game efforts involve Silkk
completely disregarding the beats. On this song, however, Silkk
and Snoop team up to tear up the mic and drown out the No Limit
influence.
Okay, those are all the
good things I have to say. Let me say that Silkk the Shicker doesn't
have one ounce of talent. I could haul my white ass on stage and
bust it out with more flow than him. His lyrical prowess is nonexistent
and his style is simply shit. It's a crime that he has wasted good
recording time that could have been used for recording public service
announcements or some other such good cause.
Master P and his No Limit
cronies are also featured heavily on here. Nobody likes these weak
rappers. Nobody likes MP going Ugggh in every single song. Nobody
likes C-Murder, Mia X, Fiend, etc. Nobody likes some of the shit
that passes for beats or songs at No Limit. Saying let me hit it
repeatedly might seem cool in the studio but it's not cool on a
cd. Some of the beats are just too experimental as well. They're
simple and could be made on a Casio keyboard.
This isn't a CD devoid
of any good songs or quality. It isn't good, but you can't put it
with the rest of the No Limit classics (I use classic in a bad way
here). Even if you only count "It Ain't My Fault",
that song is good enough to pull this one out of the can.
Favorite line[s]
"Peter Piper picked
peppers, while I pimped hos"
- I love Snoop's play
on the nursery rhyme. He also says it with such mischevious flair
that it comes out great.
"Bout to get
your head busted/that line is in chalk"
-This is Mystikal at
the height of hard-coreness in "It Ain't My Fault",
it doesn't look too good printed there, but trust me, it's hot
in the song.
Favorite track
"It Ain't My
Fault" There are a lot of declarations of 100% badass
in rap music. Some are better than others. This one is not the
best, but it is one of the better. This is one of the songs that
gave No Limit the illusion of power back in the late 90s. No matter
what you think about No Limit, you have to give this song its
props.
Total Tracks: 20
Skipped Tracks: 16
Recommend: Skip It
Unless you really like
"It Ain't My Fault" let this one go. You're missing
nothing.
- The
Great Hart 
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