Theater Of The Mind [Explicit]

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Theater Of The Mind [Explicit] Reviews

You can ride out to this entire CD. In a couple of the songs, like "I Do It For Hip-Hop", he lets the seemingly forgotten DJ shine by exhibiting quite a bit of cutting and scratching. When artists realize that its not the beats alone, but the lyrics and subject matter that make a great album, maybe hip-hop will return to its glory. Ludacris almost takes it back to the "old-school" with this one.

Its almost like the storytelling raps of the 80's and not the bragadocious, drinking, flossing, booty crap of today. If not, mourn for it, because it will be dead. Quite refreshing.

This is easily one of the best albums of the year, if not THE best. You never know what you are going to get with Luda.

This may just be a personal thing. The mixing and production is top-notch. The good tracks are amazing, and leave me wishing the whole album was filled up with these instead of feeling like a variety album. Some of this album comes off sounding too "pop variety show" for me, though, and I don't really care for Everybody Hates Chris or the slow tracks (excluding One More Drink). Pop hip hop (hate to say it but this style of hip hop is pop nowadays) has a great new album addition.

A lot of the "skit" material is worked into themed songs which are creative and well orchestrated and mixed. Fans of just one style may feel the album is lacking. The tracks that really show off southern hip hop do it with great effect. All of the tracks are well produced and there is not much filler (eg: tracks with just skits on them) on this album. Wish You Would, Call up the Homies, Last of a Dying Breed, I Do It for Hip Hop are all fantastic.

If you like a lot of the styles that are popular in hip hop nowadays, this album delivers a good mix of different flavors, but if you're hitting the skip over some tracks, you may end up enjoying half an album worth of entertainment.

Luda continues to improve with Theater of the Mind. The "Last of a Dying Breed" includes a return to form for Lil Wayne with a verse that actually makes sense as well as Luda speaking his mind about media criticisms. Every song is more than decent with quite a few being songs you can listen to over and over. "MVP" is a DJ Premier joint that has the classic Preemo beat with awesome wordplay by Luda. Another favorite of mine is "Call up the homies" featuring Game. "I Do It For Hip Hop" is an instant classic with Jay-z and Nas bringing heat. A must buy for Hip Hop fans.

Saw Luda's performance on Saturday Night Live and loved it. Bought the mp3s and hope that the rest of the songs are as good as the ones he performed.