Jadakiss - Kiss of Death
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Artist: JadakissEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2004-06-22
Music Label: Ruff Ryders
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- What You So Mad At??
- Shine
- Bring You Down
- Time's Up
- Why
- U Make Me Wanna
- Hot Skit
- Hot Sauce To Go
- Real Hip Hop
- Shoot Outs
- Still Feel Me
- By Your Side
- Gettin' It In
- Air It Out
- Welcome To D-Block
- Kiss Of Death
- I'm Goin Back
Music reviews of Kiss of Death
Music Review: "If they ask what happened, tell em it's the Kiss of Death"
Rating: 3 Stars
This album by all means is not horrible, like a lot of reviews say. You know there's something wrong when a person thinks every song is horrible. On the other hand to say this is flawless, perfect or a classic is also laughable. If you've herd Jadakiss before weather from his Lox days or just herd his guest spots you know he's got a tremendous lyrical ability. The question is how well he utilizes his talents.
The first track is produced by Black Key, really nothing special as far as the beat. Jada drops some pretty nice lyrics, but overall the beat makes this just mediocre. The DJ Quick produced Shine follows, featuring Snoop and Quick. I admire Jada's desire to hook up with some West Coast, but unfortunately Quick screws this one up with a beat that falls flat, a slightly annoying chorus and a verse by Quick that is sub-par. Quick can defiantly do better, but I guess at least Jada liked the beat. Bring You Down (produced by Neo.com) actually fits the title all too well and brings the album down. Just a pretty silly beat, straight awful chorus contrasted by some pretty solid lyrics again by Jadakiss. This is really not a good was to start an album, even if these songs where going to included on the album, this was the worst place to put them.
Time's Up is the first track on the album that actually shows promise. Scott Storch does another Dr. Dre impression on the beat and Jada finally has a solid beat to back his lyrics. Nate Dogg's chorus is ok, but finally we get a good showcase for Jadakiss ("Don't make me put your heart in your lap/F*** ridin' the beat, I parallel park on the track").
You've prolly heard Why by now. It's got some incredible production by Havoc (not his typical sound either) and some thought provoking lyrics. This just proves that controversy sells, the "Why did Bush knock down the Towers" line caused so much hype, my Mom knew who Jadakiss was by the end of the week. Don't the people who have such a problem with the line realize they are actually promoting it even more?? No matter, it's a solid song and although thought provoking my only complaint is that it offers no solutions or answers, but then again maybe there aren't any.
U Make Me Wanna is alright. I'm not particularly fond of it, but I'm sure many people will enjoy it. It's defiantly geared to be a single, with Scott Storch's production and Mariah Carey on the hook. Hot Skit, which follows, is anything but. Not worth mentioning except for the simple question: why?
Hot Sauce To Go, is produced by the Neptunes and would of course features Pharrell. Pretty nice grooved out beat with the drums and the bass. Jadakiss has some great lyrics on this track, although it would be hard to admit the chorus is not ridiculous.
Swizz Beatz drops his first production on the album with Real Hip-Hop, which comes off as one of the highlights of the album. This street track is prolly the type that most fans were expecting, a little late in the album but refreshing. Plus Sheek from the Lox has a nice contribution here. The follow up is another Lox union, featuring Styles P. The beat by Elite is almost cinematic with rock guitars, heavy drums and some nice sampling scratches for the chorus. As appropriately titled, Shoot Outs even used guns as part of the drum beats. A pretty hardcore track, nicely handled by Jadakiss and Styles as there lyrics go perfectly with the beat. Both these tracks back-to-back will defiantly have you anticipating the next Lox album.
Alchemist produces Still Feel Me, which is more light hearted than most of his, and Jada flows pretty well as he relates on a more personal level about his life (something he's failed to do previously). The track is pretty straight forward, one verse about 2 ½ minuets.
Baby Grand produces a lack-luster By Your Side. The production doesn't interfere too much with Jada's raps but I'm just not really feeling it. It's skippable. Fortunatly there is a strong follow up in the Kanye West Getting' It In. Once again, Kanye brings an incredible beat and Jada's first verse flows perfectly over it. However, he's actually outdone by a Kanye, but that doesn't hurt things too much. Although Jada's last verse makes me cringe ( he rhymes `me' with `me' 10 times in 12 bars, why would you try to even pass this off!!!), it still ends up being a nice song.
Air It Out is another skippable track by Neo.com, plus you have to listen to Kiss's annoying laugh like 8 times. Welcome to D-Block is a dark track produced by Eminem and works really well, especially with everyone from the Lox involved. The chorus is pretty weak, Eminem drops a solid verse here as well as everyone else on the track.
Finally track 17 rolls around. Kiss Of Death really has to be the highlight of the album for Jadakiss fans. It's easily the most underrated track on here. This Red Spyda track is the kind of street track I wanted to see more of on this album. A hard street beat lets Jadakiss really shine both lyrically and with his flow. The beat has an incredible bass line and snare drum roll. Excellent all around.
I'm Goin Back, is just another alright beat, kinda a weak way to end the album. But Jadakiss still manages to stand out lyrically.
After listening to this album I'll admit I was disappointed, I was looking for Kiss to just do his things over mainly street tracks and a couple maybe three cross-over/club songs. I was looking for a Kiss similar to his recent features (Made U Look remix, Rite Where U Stand, Set Up Remix, Run). There are a few of these tracks on here, but certainly not the majority. When analyzing the album and letting it settle, I do realize that I'm mostly disappointed in the production, cause in some of the worst songs he still manages to come off well. Also, not a big thing, but did anyone else get a little tired of Jada's laugh, on this album he tried to push it like it would catch on aka Little John "Yeeaaah" style. Not a good trademark to have.
Bottom Line: Overall, I'd have to say Jada strays away from his street audience and in turn produces a product with not a high quality. I'm willing to bet, no matter what you're looking for you're going to be skipping around a lot on this album. If you're a longtime Jadakiss fan or just a casual radio friendly rap fan you'll find what you're wanting in different places on the album. But, in trying to please both sides (and not even really doing an excellent job when it comes to the `hip-pop' stuff) it'll leaves neither completely satisfied.
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