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Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Hitman's Diary
3. One Dark Night
4. Foul Cats
5. Tekilla Sunrise
6. At da Wake
7. Home Sweet Funeral Home - (featuring Papoose/Jinx)
8. Mobsta's
9. Let the Games Begin
10. Thugs Love Story, A (Chapter I, II, III)
11. Da Bosses Lady - (featuring Camileone)
12. Mafioso
13. Thug's Anthem - (featuring Johnny 2 Guz/Pokaface)
14. Da Heat
15. Can't Stop the Shine - (featuring Miss Jones)
16. Cannon Fire
17. Outro
18. Daddy Figure - (bonus track)
Album Notes
Personnel: Kool G. Rap, Papoose, Jinx, Camileone, Johnny 2 Gunz, Pokaface, Miss Jones (rap vocals); Mindy Moreno (background vocals).
Producers include: Kool G. Rap, Dr. Butcher, Fade, J. Stank, N. Wilson.
Recorded at Salt Mine Studio, Mesa, Arizona.
Three years after his classic solo debut, 4,5,6, Kool G Rap returns with ROOTS OF EVIL on his own Ill Street label. On 18 relentlessly brutal tracks, the Queens native and hardcore hip-hop pioneer proves that no MC can hold a candle to his crime narrative skills. Sex, money, and murder abound as G Rap takes listeners along with his hitman persona on high-risk, high-money jobs ("Hitman's Diary," "Foul Cats," "Tekilla Sunrise"), delves into the pitfalls of underworld romance (the masterly nine-minute "Thugs Love Story Chapter I, II, III" and the Scarface-inspired "Da Bosses Lady"), and scoffs at enemies sent to their final resting place ("Home Sweet Funeral Home"). From start to finish, ROOTS OF EVIL is a violent, cinematic journey heavily indebted to the works of Scorcese, De Palma, and Coppola. Miss Jones, Jinx da Juvy, and Papoose are also featured.
Industry Reviews
3.5 Mics (out of 5) - ...the Juice Crew All Star veteran and self-crafted master wordsmith now returns with an 18-track full length album so lifelike it may be destined to bring the 'gansta rap' movement to a halt...
The Source (01/01/1999)
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