8Ball & MJG - Living Legends
Reviewed By: TRMNDUS
Album Rate: 4.5 out of 5 Stars
Eightball & MJG are back with "Living Legends" their debut album on the well known and renown Bad Boy Records. The album has features from Ludacris, Bun B, T.I., Twista, 112, P Diddy, and many more.
The album kicks off with Diddy talking on the intro, has a clean ass beat, hard guitar to a real chilled thinking of the greatest in the game feel.
"You Don’t Want Drama" kicks in and this shit has a hard ass beat. This track will have speakers beating all summer long. Eightball comes in and just rips the track, the beat is uptempo and crunk as fuck, get wild in this bitch!!!! MJG follows up on the hook, and he just got that slow chilled feel as always bust a head, get crunk!!!!!, nothing else to say this shit fucking hits jam it.
"Straight Cadillac Pimpin"-- this is the next track and this one has a real country home cooking southern feel, this brings you back to the backwoods type of shit. This is some straight up pop your collar, up in your caddy type of shit, this brings you back to old southern times, Ball and G still bring it caddy pimping style.
"We Do It"-- this track is real symphonic, this one makes you think the orchestra playing a piece, something that makes you just sit relax and think. Eightball and MJG talking about how they do all this, shits a struggle, they do it for the families, they been through it all, they speaking game to all your rookies who think you know the game and what they been through, listen up.
"The Streets" (f/ Bun B)-- this one sounds like it was made on a Sunday morning church organ horns, they rapping about being hardest street cats up on the block on this track. Spitting about the tight whips, best ice, ain't afraid to bust, being the freshest and cleanst, Bun B is featured on this one also, three southern legends on one track, you know it comes out good.
"Trying To Get At You" (f/ 112)-- Ball and G slow it down with this one, they get Bad Boy’s R&B all stars 112 to sing the hook, and you know is going to be some holler at a female, pimping type shit coming from these boys. They spitting about how they peeping that girl, she got your eye, you drop your game, you trying to get at her make something happen, give me a chance girl.
"Baby Girl"-- this one they coming with sort of the same feel, P Diddy starts off talking on the track and it sounds just like the type of track you would expect to hear from him just Ball and G on the raps. Not really the type of stuff you look forward to hearing from them, but its cool if you like that slower baby girl I want you type of shit.
They hook up with new R&B singer Lloyd on "Forever". The beat on here is slamming once again, same producers who did the single. Ball & MJG bringing it real clean on this track, they basically talking about they going to do this shit forever, they are some of the south’s greatest, they will continue to bring you the pimping, the gangsta shit, the stuff we know this great duo to bring.
"Look At the Grillz" (f/ T.I. & Twista)-- this shit has a hard ass beat produced by Lil Jon, don’t sound like a lot of other beats he has done lately which is good, fuck TI and Twista and Ball & MJG on a track, don’t even have to describe this bitch they fucking give you a hit, all the boys in the south have your grillz in, your mugg on with the grillz shining as well as the slab grill shining, you know how them southern boys do it, this one with be another one pumping all summer long. LOOK AT THE GRILLZ OH MY!!!
The other song in the video "Dont Make" and this shit is fucking hard again, this shit will have you busting heads, getting wild, this will have people getting rushed or shot at the club. Eightball and MJG coming with that crunk track, thing about it they got their own style when it comes to crunk not that Lil Jon yelling crunk, they can be mellow as fuck and still have you ready to rush someone!!! DON’T MAKE ME, this aint for you soft motherfuckers.
"Confessions" is the last track, and this one is really slow, real slow piano, problems on my mind track. Eightball and MJG really slowing it down and giving you a serious track to end things out. They talking about all the fast life shit they have done, you never know what tomorrow holds, but these boys have survived and done the unbelievable, real deep track.
The production done by Shondrae Davour, Vanex, Nashiem Myrick, Wunda Twinz, Deric D Dot, Yogi, Lil Jon, Gorilla Tek, Anthony Walker, Cool & Dre, Red Spyda was not really a southern sound that you probably would of looked for when you think of two legends from the south like 8Ball & MJG. Instead they messed with some of the best producers from all over, they had different producers on almost every track. The sound could be described as just stepped up, its not real super mainstream sounding its just real clean and hard, not real gritty and dirty like a lot of southern music. So if your thoughts of them hooking up with P. Diddy was for the worst its not, they didn’t have a bunch of radio lovey dovey type beats on here. As soon as they signed with Bad Boy a lot of people were skeptical, they were thinking they would turn into the southern diddy’s, well that’s not really the case except maybe on a few tracks like "When Its On" & "Baby Girl" which feature P. Diddy talking, and sound like some tracks you could really hear Puff rapping on and releasing as a hit. Other than that, Eightball and MJG keep it pretty hard with tracks like "You Don’t Wanna No Drama", "Look At the Grillz", "Shot Off", "The Streets", "Don’t Make", & "Gangsta". Then they liven the album up with some more soulful southern tracks like "Straight Caddillac Pimp" and "Memphis City Blues", which just have that real laid back country vibe that bring you back to the roots of some of the early Southern music. Eightball and MJG are undoubtly going down as some of the South’s greatest no matter what they do from now on, they have brought us countless hits and many countless classic albums. They came with it with the lyrics and flows on the album too, they spit hard to these new styled beats, don’t let the new image fool you, listen to them on the raps you can still hear their vigor and hunger when they rap. Overall music changes, artists change, we all love Eightball and MJG from the old days but one day you have to make a career move and start making music to cater to the ears or more than just one crowd if you plan to be successful in this business, and if there is one group that deserves to finally have that platinum plaque on the wall its these boys right here.
8Ball & MJG - Living Legends