Kingpin Sean - The Game Is Mine
Reviewed By: ULTIMATECDLINK
Album Rate: 3.5 out of 5 Stars
Alabama rapper Kingpin Sean is the self proclaimed Rookie of the Year in rap and he drops his debut album on 101 Degrees Entertainment. The album features Scut, The Beer Drankaz, Nesco, Young Walley, Bubble Bliss, Moochie, Don P, Double Assault, Stan, & Connection.
1. Intro/Freestyle (f/ The Beer Drankaz)-- this track has a classical beat with lots of samples and background noises. Kingpin Sean starts spittin about how he's the hungriest MC in the game today. He's got a flow that gives you the lyrics and sound of many East Coast rappers and not the typical Dirty South rapper. Nice intro track but I could have done without all the background noises.
2. The Game Is Mine-- the beat is a sample of the NBA on NBC theme music. Kingpin Sean raps about he's the number draft pick and makes numerous references to current rappers as if they were NBA players--exactly he calls Jay-Z the Michael Jordan of rap. The hook is a little corny and after a while, all the references to NBA players gets tired.
3. I'm From (The Dangerzone) (f/ Nesco)-- this track has a midtempo synthesizer space age pimpin beat. Kingpin Sean and Nesco rap about they all come from the same hoods so they can relate to what they go through. It's an all right track but nothing spectacular.
4. Don't Know (f/ Scut)-- the hook goes "ya'll niggaz just don't know how we bust our guns, ya'll niggaz just don't know how we stack our ones". It's an OK track but at times sounds like Kingpin Sean is stretching to rhyme each bar so it just doesn't make sense sometimes. Scut comes with a nice lazy delivery on the track. It's worth checkin out and giving a listen to.
5. Never Go Away (f/ Young Walley)-- this track has a nice simple beat over a bassline. Kingpin Sean and Young Walley rap about how they gotta get out of the ghetto and get away from the drugs to better themselves but at the same time, they wanna go out on their own terms. Nice song.
6. Hardhat (faceoff)-- this track is one those bust a nigga in the head type tracks designed to get the clubs rowdy and off in a frenzy. The hook goes "grab a baseball bat/crack a nigga hardhat". The production on this song is makes the flows come off really distorted out the speakers. Not feelin this track at all.
7. Streetz (f/ Scut)-- this track has a nice midtempo beat with a decent bassline that will have head bobbin to the song. Both Kingpin Sean and Scut come correct on the mic and talk about takin all the haters out when it comes to see them in the streets. Definitely one of the best tracks on the album.
8. Buccjump (f/ Bubble Bliss)-- this track starts off with slower beat before it speeds up to become a club, booty shakin, strip club type song. Just your typical song designed to get the ladies ass shakin on a Friday night.
9. Tighten Up-- this track has some heavy basslines that will get ya speakers thumping. Kingpin Sean reps the 205 area code on this one and it sounds like a freestyle flow on the mic. Not really sure what the song was about because it's just a bunch of flows.
10. 2 Ninez (f/ Connection & Moochie)-- this track has a catchy synthesizer beat with some chantin in the background. Nice job from everyone on the mic on this gangsta track. You'll be bobbin along all the way through guaranteed. Probably the best song on the album.
11. Supershit (f/ Stan, Bubble Bliss, Double Assault, & Don P)-- this track has a beat that reminds me of a video game for some reason over a bassline. Each rapper on the track tries to tie each verse to the word "super" and they pretty much come up with every word known to man with "super" in it. Don P is the standout artist on the track but it's a decent effort and worth peepin.
12. S.E.A.N.-- nice catchy shuffly beat on this one. The hook is just as catchy and just gets stuck in your head for days. Kingpin Sean comes very nice on his flows and shows you the potential that he hss. Nice song.
13. Times Are Hard-- this track has a somber, piano laced beat. Kingpin Sean raps about how everyone wants to hustle these days but he sends the message that people need to give it up and get a real job because times are hard for everyone and not everyone chooses to live the street life. It's got a great message for the youth of America. Good song to end the album off with because the song gives you a sense of finality.
Overall, the production by Bubble Bliss, Ballistic, and Nesco Bones is really raw and should improve as they get more exerience and better equipment to work with. The feeling that I got after listening to this album a few times is that there's an identity crisis. The album starts off with a lot of potential with the lyricism of many veteran East Coast rappers on the first track but then you go from that extreme to the other with the Dirty South booty shakin tracks back to the East Coast flows later on. Some of the songs don't follow a theme either and instead rely on keepin a rhyme scheme no matter how far out of bounds the words stray. Some of the best songs on the albums are the ones where Kingpin Sean brings the lyrics to the mic because that's where he sounds the most comfortable.
Kingpin Sean - The Game Is Mine