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Track Listing
1. I Call Shots - (featuring Roscoe)
2. Loose Cannons - (featuring Daz/Zizbit)
3. Who Ride Wit Us - (featuring Daz)
4. Represent Dat G.C. - (featuring Daz/Snoop Dogg/Soopa Fly/Tray Deee/Jay-o/Butch)
5. Welcome Home - (featuring LaToya)
6. Tequilla - (featuring Niva/T-Mode/Daz)
7. Trylogy
8. Never Gonna Give It Up - (featuring Warren G/Nate Dogg/Tray D/Snoop Dogg/Soopafly)
9. Tha Streetz Iz a Mutha - (featuring Daz)
10. Ya Can't Trust Nobody - (featuring Daz)
11. It Ain't About You - (featuring Soopa Fly/Tray Deee)
12. Girls All Pause - (featuring Nate Dogg/Roscoe)
13. Your Girlfriend - (featuring Daz)
14. Hoe's a Housewife - (featuring Dr. Dre/Hitman)
15. I Ain't Sh%t Without My Homeboyz - (featuring Daz/Soopa Fly/Baby S/Crooked-1)
16. Step Up - (featuring Crooked-1/Zizbit)
17. Live on Tha Mic - (bonus track, featuring KRS-One)
18. (Untitled) - (hidden track)
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Baby S, Butch, Crooked-1, Crooked-I, Daz, Dr. Dre, Hitman, Jay-o, KRS-One, Kurupt, LaToya, Nate Dogg, Niva, Roscoe, Snoop Dogg, Soopa Fly, Soopafly, T-Mode, Tray Deee, Warren G, Zizbit | | Distributor: | E1 Distribution (USA) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Kurupt, Warren G, Tray D, Snoop Dogg, Soopafly, Daz, LaToya, Roscoe, Dr. Dre, KRS-One.
Producers include: Dr. Dre, Organized Noize, Outkast, Daz, Bink.
THA STREETZ IZ A MUTHA is a solid outing from Dogg Pound member Kurupt, highlighted by a vast array of production styles. Beginning with Organized Noize's manic "I Call Shots" and Daz's "Loose Cannons," the album appears to take a cue from Ice Cube's seminal solo debut AMERIKKKA'S MOST WANTED, which utilized East Coast production (the Bomb Squad) as an original juxtaposition to the West Coast gangsta lyrics that flooded the speakers.
As the album evolves, however, Kurupt's true West Coast colors--in his case, blue--begin to shine (see: "Who Ride Wit Us," "Neva Gonna Give It Up," and "Ya Can't Trust Nobody"). Lyrically, he continues to follow two paths: braggadocious word play with a gangsta slant, and brutal mysoginism. With the former, he succeeds; with the latter, he tends to grow tired and repetitious. Luckily, for Kurupt's sake, he's wisely chosen to scatter the musical and lyrical styles throughout, keeping listeners on their toes and interested for the duration. At more than 74 minutes, this is an impressive achievement.
Industry Reviews
4 Mics (out of 5) - ...Combining equal parts hot beats, sharp lyrics, and love from his star-studded family, Kurupt delivers an album that can be summed up in one word--gangsta...
The Source (12/01/1999)
...proves that he has the goods to make us remember why he was hailed as the next dope MC a few years ago....[he] battles...lesser lyricists, smokes chronic, and slaps so-called hoes, all while dipping and sliding around G-funk beats...
Vibe (12/01/1999)
...reasonably exciting collection of West Coaast G-funk....re-creates the unrepentantly hardcore sound [Tha Dogg Pound] are infamous for... - Rating: B-
Entertainment Weekly (11/19/1999)
...impressive sophomore set....finds the rapper blending together elements of both areas...while always professing devotion to his native California...
CMJ (11/15/1999)
7 out of 10 - ...It rocks like a barrel-full of electro-tweaked futuristic beats, with sharp rhymes from the perspective of gang-turf LA...
NME (04/27/2002)
3 out of 5 stars - ...As a solo artist, [Kurupt refined] the West Coast hip hop sound....it's hardcore action all the way...
Q (05/01/2002)
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