Suga Free - Just Add Water
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Artist: Suga FreeEdition: Music CD
Format: CD+DVD, Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Music Label: Bungalo Records
Soundtracks:
- Intro
- What U Want
- Tuen The F... In
- Like What
- Put Ya Hands Up
- U Know My Name
- Free-Call Snoop
- So Fly
- The Ranger
- New And Improved
- Peace Of Mind
- U Ain't Knowing
- Suga Cain
- Fox Is Comin'
- If You Feel Me (Dais West Coast Mix)
- How I Get Down
- I'm Gone
- Person 2 Person
- Don't Worry
- Short Khop Interlude
- Where U From
- Happy
- Change
- Boyfriend (Pimpin)
- So Fly (Remix)
Music reviews of Just Add Water
Music Review: New and Improved!
Rating: 5 Stars
"Just Add Water" is Suga Free's first album without his former long-time partner and West Coast legendary producer DJ Quik. And surprisingly, this new album (his 3rd solo overall) is as good as "Street Gospel" (but longer!)... I was a bit dissapointed with "The New Testament", which sounded a bit uninspired to me, and even Quik's beat weren't his best ones... On "Just Add Water" Suga Free bounced back to release another banger! It's one of those perfect albums, you can listen to, without skipping a track. It's Suga Free at his best - catchy funky West Coast beats (courtesy of mostly unknown producers, other than Mannie Fresh and Saccs), great (and catchy) RnB hooks and of course classic Suga Free rapping! Suga Free is at his best and you can see he improved as a rapper. I don't have to tell you about Suga Free - he's his usual charismatic, easy-going, crazy, funny, intelligent Pomona pimp. You know that his favorite subject is pimpin', but Suga raps a lot about other issues as well - especially women and relashionships... And whatever he raps about it's got that unique Suga Free humorous twist to it. Musically the album is West Coast to the fullest, without any Dirty South influences. It's melodic, funky, and the sound is very rich. The beats are usually complicated (so different than all those Lil Jon or Dr. Dre or Scott Storch beats...), and it's actually music, not just bumping beats. The producers (Freeze, Saccs, J-Steez, J. Classic, Mannie Fresh and a few others) really did a tremendous job on this one. Much much better than most of "The New Testament". Suga Free didn't use many guest rappers (other than Snoop Dogg and Knoc-turnal) and most of the guest artists are singers (and they all do an amazing job on those hooks!).
Overall, Suga Free proved that he can do it even without Quik, and he put out one of the best albums in 2006, for sure! It's so different, so authentic, it's just a must-have for any West Coast fan. Suga Free's approach to pimpin' is much different to other pimps turned rappers (such as Too Short, Eightball and MJG, Dru Down) - it's less serious and tough. Suga Free is a laid back, easy going, fun-loving person - and it also shows on the DVD that comes with the album (although it's as usual in very bad quality, both visually and it terms of the Sound). Suga Free is being himself and he did an amazing job on this album, proving he's one of the most creative rappers out there. Although Just Add Water is only the third album from rapper Suga Free in nine years, it is clear that he has lost none of his game in the time that's passed. The premise behind the record, as explained in the "Intro," is that it's a kind of guide to being a pimp. And while Suga Free is more than ready to give his share of advice about dealing with nosy and ungrateful women and his love for his job ("U Know My Name," for example, where he says over a smooth jazz beat, "Cuz all I really like is pimpin'," and "I only love what she do for me/I ain't getting married"), he is also willing to get a bit more personal and express some genuine emotion. "I'm Gone" and "Peace of Mind" are both about relationships that have gone wrong and that have hurt him, and in the guitar-driven "The Ranger" he's the most introspective and honest he's ever been, showing the maturity he's gained since his 1997 debut, Street Gospel. He explains his reasons for pimping in a Prince-esque falsetto over reverby, melancholy electric guitar chords, then moves into a modern rock-inspired chorus of "I don't want to be like the Lone Ranger/Traveling through the world just like a stranger." These moments of reflection are a nice complement to the rest of the album, with songs about sex and women and money, and bring a little humanity to the persona Suga Free has worked so hard to create. In terms of production, Just Add Water is as good as any G-funk record. Its beats are all smooth and clean, but there's enough diversity in instrumentation and style (the aforementioned rock found in "The Ranger" and also in "Suga Cain," the pure James Brown funk of "What U Want," complete with grunts, and the Spanish guitar in "If You Feel Me") to keep things from growing either boring or predictable. However, lyrically Suga Free's misogyny gets a little tiresome, and his rhymes have always been kind of hit or miss, which unfortunately doesn't change on this record. Although he has too many lines that involve him trying to extend single-syllable words into four or five, he makes up for this by focusing more on his singing, which has a cadence reminiscent of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. It sounds good, and ties the musical elements of the record together nicely. Just Add Water may not be the complete handbook to being a pimp, but it certainly is a kind of missive on the life of Suga Free, and is definitely worth checking out.
Bottom line - Don't you sleep on this one, or Suga might slap you like you're one of his bi***es!!
Description of Just Add Water
In order to be considered a supreme rapper, you?ve got to have a slick mouthpiece. And no one in the rap game has a mouthpiece slicker than Suga Free. Respected in the streets and by artists alike, Suga Free has appeared on albums from Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, and Lil Jon, among many others. After making hits with long-time recording partner DJ Quik, the Pomona-based rapper strikes out on his own with his tremendous third album, Just Add Water. Full of razor-sharp wit, lyrical pimpery and musically advanced production, the stunning collection sums up Suga Free?s perspective on life. special guest appearances by Snoop Dogg, Mannie Fresh, Knocturnal, and Katt Williams makes this a must have. Includes a bonus DVD. Bungalo. 2006.Pop CDs
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