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(Blacktrash) The Autobiography of Kirk Jones

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This album is one of the most underrated albums I've ever heard in my life. It's never mentioned among the classic albums that the Hip-Hop culture has produced in the last 30 years. Sticky Fingaz here presents to us a very entertaining story of his maniacal alter ego Kirk Jones and the trials and tribulations he went through. Sticky Fingaz's energy and flow never fails in any track on the album, but there are a few songs have less repeatable value, but they are still top-notch songs in their own right. The whole story flows together very well, and only a couple times does it seem to get a little cloudy to understand what is going on. All the songs match with where the story is headed to as well.

Sticky Fingaz opens the story with the intro. The very beginning of the intro sounds like a start to a movie anway, and then it starts with the story. "Come On" is the very first song on the album. He has a lot of energy in this track, but at times I just can't feel it, but the song is still very good, with a good beat and good lyrics. "My Dogz Iz My Gunz" is a real banger for the album. It features Black Child of Murder Inc. Black Child really spits well on the track, but he can't outdo Sticky's antics on the track. It's cool how he compared his guns to dogs in the song. "Not Die'n" is another banger on the disc. It's short (2:21) and sweet. He talks about how he done all kinds of stuff and he's still alive to tell about it and how nobody can kill him. Sticky has that mad energy showcasing on this track as well. "Money Talks" featuring Raekwon is unique in a good way. He is money on this track, and it is awesome how he describes himself being money. Everything he said about himself (money) is true too. "Why" is an excellent track with X1 and Still Livin. It describes how Kirk caught a ride and went to rob a store. Sticky and the guest artists flowed together really well to create the song with the most replayable value on the disc, in my opinion. "Oh My God" is another song with crazy energy from Sticky. Right after the incident, Kirk tries to speak to God, and when he succeeds, he gets alot of questions answered by Him. The song is pretty deep actually, it's just that Sticky has so much energy that it's hard to understand that the song is pretty deep. "State Vs. Kirk Jones" with Rah Digga, Redman, Canibus, Scarred 4 Life, Lord Superb, and Guess Who is another song that has a nice replayable value. The guest artists really help you picture a real court scene in which this song is taking place at to decide whether Kirk is innocent or guilty of the charges placed against him from the incident from Why. All the artists mesh together a great song. "Baby Brother" is another deep song that doesn't seem that deep. From prison, Kirk calls his baby brother who recently started to stray down the wrong path. He tries to tell him that he needs to stop what he's doing so he doesn't end up right in the position he is in. This is one of my favorite tracks on the album. "Cheatin" is a sort of mediocre song, but it's still good compared to some stuff that comes out these days. It's about exactly what the title states: girlfriends who trick around with other men while they have a boyfriend already. He tells you some signs to let you know if your girlfriends are cheating or not. "What Chu Want" features X1 again and it's another one that Sticky puts a lot of energy into. It's not the best song, but it's still listenable because of his energy and the good beat supplied by Buddah and Shamello. "Ghetto" is a funny track about what's ghetto and what's not. It talks about all the stuff people do if they're ghetto. "What If I Was White" is another funny song. He has Eminem on the chorus and Sticky raps about what he would be like if he was white. "Sister I'm Sorry" is the best song on the album. It features Choclatt(whoever that is) on the chorus. He talks about all the things men do to women that women just take and live with. All Sticky wants is forgiveness though. Very deep song with touching lyrics. "Get It Up" with fellow Onyx member Fredro Starr is an okay song, but I usually skip this one. It's not that neither artist can bring it on this track, it's just that it's kind of boring compared to the other material on the album. "Licken Off In Hip Hop" is the last real track on the album, and it is promising. Sticky brings back that mad, raw energy on this track. Nice track. "Wonderful World" is a very suitable outro for the album. One of the first lines that Sticky says is one of the truest words spoken on the album: "Now it's easier to get a gun than an education". Then it goes into the song and the story is over.

If you don't have this album, get it! I don't care if you have to borrow it, buy it, bootleg it, whatever, just get it and get lost in a very amazing story. Hope I didn't give away too much of the story so you can anticipate what's going to happen next, like I was when I first bought this. The whole album is solid, with no bad songs but just a few songs that might get a skip. Those few songs can't keep this from getting 5 stars though. Sticky Fingaz, comes with energy, lyrics, and great beats to bring the story to life. 5 Stars.

"Straight Outta Compton". "The Chronic." "36 Chambers". "All Eyez On Me". "Ready to Die". "The Marshall Mathers LP".
All of these albums are considered classics; they are innovative, influential, and so original that they've earned their places as some of the greatest albums of ANY genre. However, all are mainstream releases, each at multi-platinum status.
"Black Trash" should be included with these masterpieces. Not only is Sticky one of the greatest rappers alive (obvious in his verses with Onyx), but this album is unlike anything else ever released. It is a concept album, each song playing an important part in the overall story, and in between the songs are dramatic "real-life" scenes that are more than just the silly skits we see on nearly all hip-hop records nowadays. Songs like "My Dogz iz My Gunz", "Not Die'n", and "Lickin Off of Hip-Hop" are classic hard-core anthems, whereas "Baby Brother", "Sista I'm Sorry", and "What If I Was White" are dark social commentaries. And songs like "Oh My God" and "The State vs. Kirk Jones" are just so blatantly original and expertly constructed that this concept album rates up there with Pink Floyd's "The Wall" and Nine Inch Nails' "The Downward Spiral".
In addition to Sticky's heavy, harsh, and often insane (but brilliant) style of lyrics, we have "cameos" (although important players in the story) by other greats like Canibus, Eminem, Redman, and Fredro Starr.
The story documents a young thug through his harsh streetlife until he commits murder during a botched jewelry heist, and after serving 10 years, attempts to readjust to society (with often frightening outcomes). Each song is important to the storyline--and they are great pieces of music as well--so there is not a single "skipper", up to the deep and startling climax.
I think everyone knows that Sticky is the driving force behind Onyx, and with this album we can see the pure talent and originality that proves as much.
And not to mention that Sticky is completely insane!!!

Look as hard as you want but chances are pretty good that you'll never find an artist who can mix so many crazy topics into one album. Sticky Fingaz manages to speak on everything from ghetto politics to greed to religion and do it all with the same out-of-control insanity that put him on the map as the frontman of Onyx. While the idea of creating an alternate universe seperating a rapper's stage name and his government one is nothing new, Sticky brings one of the most unique and incredible adventures ever captured on wax while watching it all play out like a Broadway musical.

As "Blacktrash" opens with the loud sound of the Universal theme blaring through the speakers, we immediatly know that this album will be like nothing that we've heard in a long time. Sticky Fingaz (a.k.a. Kirk Jones) doesn't just tell wild stories in his rhymes, he connects them all together for one crazy LP. He speaks as the "almighty dollar" on "Greed" and ponders what it would be like to be Caucasion on "What If I Was White". During the interludes, he has a heart to heart with his conscience (played by Omar Epps). When Sticky's Jones is finally nabbed for a robbery turned homicide, he is called before a court of his hip-hop peers including Redman, Canibus, and Rah Digga on "State Vs. Kirk Jones". As crazy as things get through out it all though he dares to slow it down and aplogize to all the sisters for the physical and mental abuse that men have caused them on "Sister I'm Sorry". The same angry guy with the crazy methaphors is able to pull off a type of sensitivity that hasn't been seen since Pac did "Keep Ya Head Up".

"Blacktrash" isn't the average solo debut. It's a brilliant concept album that manages to possese both a great sense of humor and the occasional piece of social commentary while keeping it all in the confines of a story. In a time when rap had turned more towards soft club music and commercial party anthems, Sticky Fingaz managed to mold a classic album that returned to the storytelling days of Slick Rick. Unforunately, this may have been its commercial downfall. "Blacktrash" didn't get much promotion despite the fact that it was probably one of the few legitimately great albums, besides Nas' Stillmatic, to drop in 2001. Even if you weren't a fan of Onyx during their "Slam" days, if you consider yourself a hip-hop fan, this is an absolute must-own.

On his solo debut, Sticky Fingaz brings forth a solid collection of tracks, meshed into a real nice storyline. From beginning to end, the album suffers from very few weak points.
State vs. Kirk Jones features an all-star cast, which creates the perfect courtroom setting on a bangin track, helping to elevate the album's storyline.
Other noteworthy tracks include Come On, Money Talks, and the poignant Sister I'm Sorry.
The one real weak point the album has is on What If I Was White, an awful track featuring an unfunny cameo by Eminem.
Other than that, "Black Trash (The Autobiography Of Kirk Jones)" is a bangin album from start to finish. Sticky's charisma and delivery are at the usual peak we've come to expect from him. And the production for the most part is top-notch.
If you're a fan of good, solid hip-hop, this album should be in your collection.

no joke serious this cd is so sick its not even funny you need this is your cd collection NOW! this album is perfection of hip hop in my top 25 albums of all time with out a shadow of a doubt should have went 5x platnium like gunit and 50 cent but gold aint that bad can we get another fire cd sticky. decade was alright at best

Favorite Track:Whole Cd!
Guests:Raekwon,Canibus,Rah Digga,X-1,Fredro Star,Redman,Eminem

10 of 10 lyrics 10 of 10 beats

Definitely one of the most slept on albums in hip-hop history. Till this day people still don't know how classic this album is. You will never listen too another album like this anywhere. It is trully one of a kind. If you don't have this CD in your hip-hop collection you don't love hip-hop.

When albums come out like this and get no attention from the mainstream, it makes me hate the music industry for down playing great music. This album shows the true talent of Fredro Starr. "Money Talks" is a great song in which Sticky takes the roll of money and tells you how much it really controls people in everything they do- I'm more powerful than GOD amazinly/ Cause when you pray to GOD n**ga/ you pray for me. "Why" is a story about a man who has turned his life around and Kirk Jones (who just got out of prison) the main character in the story detroys it by begging for a ride, asking for a drop off in which he robs and kills some people, and gets the man in a high speed police chase which ends up killing the man. There is so much to this album I don't want to spoil it. All the songs wrap into the story so well it leaves you wanting to listen to the next track to see what happens next. Pick it up you won't be dissapointed.

Prince Paul has done it before. But for sticky to do it??? He has always been one hard core cat spitting some dope rhymes with mad energy, but him doing an album like this?????? WOW sticky also got some of the freshest ideas in the industry.... The storyline is awesome with each song detailing Kirk Jones's fate....the beats are fresh and each song can hold its own.....Best Cut=====> THe State Vs. Kirk JOnes!!! Oh my god that song is so fresh....Just that song alone warrants a purchase..........yo thats it......go buy it.......now

I didn't think that sticky could hold it down solo, but after getting this album......damn it's tight. His songs are metaphoric and innovated. Who else could come up with a song named "What if I was White"? The lyrics are sick, and the beats hypnotize you. If you like Onyx, then buy this. Definitely one of the better rap albums of 2001.

one of the best albums every made. the story line and plot of the album draw you in and keep you listening to every bar sticky spits.