wild greens
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Did a search but not really anything about them on here, or if there is it's a throwaway comment or two. I did see them called crude and artless in one thread, I agree with half of that statement- this is high art to me ha. Loads of really basic stuff on the early albums but prodigious work-rate from Beats By The Pound/KLC (surely the star of the show) means that most of the albums from 97/98 have at least a couple of mad beats on them. Really dated and cheap-sounding in places but that adds to the whole experience really
I reckon there are really only 3 consistent years- 97-99- though there is good stuff after it they suffer from losing in-house production and obviously imploding like these things always do. The Snoop albums aren't great, I can't listen to Kane & Able personally, can't get into them, there's a weird Master P album where he raps in a Scarface accent for 70% of it for some reason? (Last Don). Quality control isn't really there at all but that's why it works most of the time.
The album art means the catalogue has ended up being looked at as a meme but this aesthetic has been robbed and updated now, regardless of how scruffy it is.
Master P is obviously the centrepoint of it but I don't really like his solo albums that much- Mac, Fiend & Mystikal stuff has aged a lot better. Every album has dozens of features though so even the solo albums feel like crew albums sometimes. Good impromptu, rushed energy. In-house production means this all makes a crew become a sealed universe. I will say that there are a few bits where they're blatantly ripping off other beats just to pad out the albums though (What You Need off the Mercedes album is a good example). God knows how much work they had Beats By The Pound doing in the end. Lots of early precursors to other styles
I love this era just before the Neptunes style takes over- the same vibe is there on the Hot Boys albums for Cash Money, the early Ruff Ryders stuff etc. The tank/army imagery is a bit shit and all the films are awful as well but who cares about any of that
That'll do for now
I reckon there are really only 3 consistent years- 97-99- though there is good stuff after it they suffer from losing in-house production and obviously imploding like these things always do. The Snoop albums aren't great, I can't listen to Kane & Able personally, can't get into them, there's a weird Master P album where he raps in a Scarface accent for 70% of it for some reason? (Last Don). Quality control isn't really there at all but that's why it works most of the time.
The album art means the catalogue has ended up being looked at as a meme but this aesthetic has been robbed and updated now, regardless of how scruffy it is.
Master P is obviously the centrepoint of it but I don't really like his solo albums that much- Mac, Fiend & Mystikal stuff has aged a lot better. Every album has dozens of features though so even the solo albums feel like crew albums sometimes. Good impromptu, rushed energy. In-house production means this all makes a crew become a sealed universe. I will say that there are a few bits where they're blatantly ripping off other beats just to pad out the albums though (What You Need off the Mercedes album is a good example). God knows how much work they had Beats By The Pound doing in the end. Lots of early precursors to other styles
I love this era just before the Neptunes style takes over- the same vibe is there on the Hot Boys albums for Cash Money, the early Ruff Ryders stuff etc. The tank/army imagery is a bit shit and all the films are awful as well but who cares about any of that
That'll do for now
