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| Ten years later, the dynamic duo of hip-hop (and movies and more) follow up their first “Blackout!” team-up. A-Yo, Mrs. International, City Lights, more. |
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| 1 BO2 (Intro) |
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| 2 I'm Dope Ni**a |
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| 3 A-Yo |
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| 4 Dangerous MCees |
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| 5 Errbody Scream |
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| 6 Hey Zulu |
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| 7 City Lights |
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| 8 Father's Day |
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| 9 Mrs. International (Skit) |
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| 10 Mrs. International |
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| 11 How Bout Dat |
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| 12 Dis Iz 4 All My Smokers |
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| 13 Lock Down (Skit) |
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| 14 Four Minutes to Lock Down |
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| 15 Neva Herd Dis B 4 |
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| 16 I Know Sumptn |
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| 17 A Lil Bit |
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Album Review
With each having individual obligations all over the place, it took ten years for Method Man and Redman to record a follow-up to 1999's beloved "Blackout!", but one listen and you'd think it had only been ten days. Interplay during the intro proves that none of the chemistry is lost, then the slow-grinding "I'M Dope Ni**A" declares that happy and horribly high days are here again, with mentions of Club Nouveau plus "Tango & Cash" putting a date stamp on the duo. Their fine vintage is displayed two tracks later when "Dangerous Mcees" spits "Even Herbie Hancock know where to Rockit" over a beat that's identifiably Erick Sermon. It's topped by the Phyllis Hyman loop Pete Rock cuts for the preceding track, "A-Yo," a superior weekend anthem featuring Saukrates from Redman's Gilla House group. With the sound of the South having exploded since the first "Blackout!", the hypnotic highlight "City Lights" with guest Bun B plus a UGK sample is identifiable as post-2000. Also of its time is the dreaded Auto-Tune device, which corrects some pitch here and there, although its polish is negated on "I Know Sumptn" by the very Redman lyric "Check my bowel baby/This is the mother load." Mentions of riding jet skis on land and all sorts of other absurdities sit next to innovative viewpoints on sleaze, then "Dis Iz 4 All My Smokers" does the weed song right as the blunt brothers roll over a DJ Scratch track that sounds heavily influenced by RZA. Speaking of Wu-Tang members, Raekwon and Ghostface appear on the key cut "Four Minutes To Lock Down," an intense barrage of Shaolin lyrics that helps anchor an album that's often just a party on wax. The original deserves the top spot, but think of this as the "Godfather Part II" of reckless boom-bap rap and you've got an idea of how well this "Blackout!" satisfies. ~ David Jeffries, All Music Guide
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Other albums by: Method Man/Redman |
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