Macho Man Randy Savage - Be a Man
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Artist: Macho Man Randy SavageEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-07
Music Label: Big 3 Records
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- I'm Back
- Ru Ready
- Hit The Floor
- Let's Get It On
- Remember Me
- Tear It Up
- Macho Thang
- Be A Man
- Get Back
- Feel The Madness
- What's That All About
- Gonna Be Trouble
- Perfect Friend
Music reviews of Be a Man
Music Review: An "objective" review...... with the same result.
Rating: 2 Stars
First of all, we have to review this album objectively. I, too, have been laughing at the clearly sarcastic reviews for Macho's rap endeavor. It is hard not to. The mere thought of Macho Man wrestling is hilarious -- let alone expanding his scope. As time as gone on, it seems the "Madness" has ceased to even be a character, but rather the real thing. Kind of scary. And in a way, this CD confirms that the real "Macho Man" is not far from the man waving his fingers around and growling nonsense in those interviews...
Even still, the guy deserves a fair review. And from a Macho Man fan (who is a fan precisely because the guy is certifiably insane, which made him a hell of a wrestler), but far from a rap fan, that is even more difficult. But let's define what 5-star rap would be, for this purpose. 5-star rap would be old Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Nelly. I am not going to even try to analyze these artists, but they are the most respected for a reason: the beats are catchy, the lyrics are skillfully delivered, and mostly there is nothing forced about it. These guys are naturally rappers.
That said, it's pretty clear that Macho Man is pretty bad. Even if we say that his voice isn't bad, it's just "not conventional." It's still bad. The beats are cheesy and regurgitated. The production is third or fourth rate. The clichés are endless. It takes itself far too seriously (right from the intro on, where some girl talks about how "hot" Macho Man is). And the lyrics, far from flowing, are all cut up into brutal couplets that sound like kids' poetry trying to sound "raw."
I found the clichés especially ridiculous. Far from a rap or hip-hop guru, I heard more than a few gimmicks borrowed right from popular pop-radio rappers. There is a wonderful Nate-Dogg-like crooner in "What's This All About" -- a perfect imitation of the deep rap vibrato from hits like "Regulators," but the credits confirm, not really Nate Dogg. The "Uh-Oh!" from "Gonna Be Trouble" is hijacked from a Nelly CD. "Be a Man" has a cheesy over-dramatized synthesized horn in the chorus. "Perfect Friend" even accompanies Macho's monotone poetry reading with "N'Sync." I gave the CD away, so I don't remember, but I think at one point the legendary DJ Cool says to "throw your hands in the air and wave them like you don't care." An automatic disqualifier for anything trying to be anything.
But the real disaster are the lyrics and delivery. Macho's voice isn't good, but it might have worked since some of the Southern rappers from the "Crunk" school do kind of resemble that approach. But these couplets are just bad. Macho Man plays his card right when he approaches the songs like a wrestler -- stressing his toughness and the fact that he could beat you up. But the way he gets that across is a caricature. "Be a Man" is the best example. The classic rap vendetta song, this kind of works. Beating on Hulk's movies is a definite point-getter in those MC Battles (even if the "feature role in Spiderman" is a slight stretch). But the chorus is a disaster, indicative of the lyrical shortcomings of the entire album, so trapped in rhymed couplet after rhymed couplet that those couplets come out like thug versions of Hallmark Cards. Case in point: "All he is is a chump (?)... because Hulk Hogan is a real big punk." It sounds like the kind of reaction that happens on the playground when one adversary runs out of clever insults... "Well you're...... a real big punk!" The general dynamic is not much better. The beats aren't great but might sound "harder" if Macho did not grab at any bad lyric he could find: "I'm bad for your health and about ready to blow," as another example.
Some variation would help too...... too loud, all the same pace, repeated themes...... either "I'm tough and am going to beat you up" or (more disturbing) "I'm really sexy and when I walk into the club the ladies are all over me" With no cleverness to the assertion, the whole CD is remarkably limiting. I'm not sure how far you can take these pretty mundane concepts, but other rappers take things that are not that much more interesting and make a hell of a lot more of them -- as in making it not a headache road to nowhere to listen to the album all the way through.
That said, it is important to remember that Macho Man is a wrestler first, a rapper second, and this is his first CD. But, this said...... this still never should have been released, it has no place on the market, and is a terrible waste of money. Macho Man made it pretty clear that he thought that he was really good. I saw him promote the CD on TV, and the reporter literally toyed with him in buttering up his opinion of how good he was. And herein lies the problem. He got an idea in his head and some record company used his fame to make a few bucks off of it. He was exploited, if that can fairly be stated. Could Macho Man have released a good rap CD? Good? No. But if it recognized its own limitations, took itself less seriously, and focused on being fun and humble rather than a beggar's imitation of real rap........ it could have had its place.
For me? I bought it as a novelty, and it doesn't even have it's place on the novelty shelf. It's lyrically and musically boneheaded; even its "emotional" finish -- no doubt heartfelt -- is forced into a box to the point where it joins the oblivion. Listening to this is like watching a train crash. For Macho's sake: watch his wrestling matches, do not rate him on this. He is among the greatest in some things......... he is a disaster in rap. All joking aside.
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