Firing Squad [Explicit Lyrics]

M.O.P. | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 22, 1996)
• Original Release Date: October 22, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Relativity
• ASIN: B000003C0B
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,956 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Indie Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > East Coast
  • #81 in Music > Indie Music > Rap & Hip-Hop > Gangsta & Hardcore

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. Firing Squad (Skit)

3. Firing Squad

4. New Jack City

5. Stick to Ya Gunz

6. Anticipation

7. Born 2 Kill

8. Brownsville

9. Salute

10. World Famous

11. Downtown Swinga ['96]

12. Lifestyles of a Ghetto Child

13. Revolution

14. Illside of Town

15. Nothin' 2 Lose

16. Dedication

17. Dead and Gone

18. Born 2 Kill [Jazz Mix]

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: M.O.P.
Title: FIRING SQUAD
Street Release Date: 10/22/1996
Domestic
Genre: RAP/HIP HOP

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars M.O.P. - Firing Squad, December 24, 2003

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Constant - See all my reviews

This review is from: Firing Squad (Audio CD)

First time I heard M.O.P. was on there second album "Firing Squad" (1996). The duo of Lil'Fame & Billy Danzenie delivered a solid album full of hardcore tracks. DJ Premier and Big Jaz's production contributions to this album are memorable. Backed by a sick piano beat, M.O.P. rip up the grimey title track "Firing Squad", followed up by the deadly "New Jack City". Next Rap legend Kool G Rap drops in for a rugged collabration on "Stick To Ya Gunz" another sick track. "Anticipation" embodies part of KRS-One's "MC's Act Like They Know" and is another blazing track. M.O.P. represent on "Born to Kill" love the keyboards to this one. Big Jaz's beat to "World Famous" was reused last year on Scarface's hit single "My Block", its a sick beat and I like the M.O.P. version. On "Lifestyles of a Ghetto Child" and "Illside of Town" M.O.P. deliver dark hardcore tracks of Murder, loyalty and survival. The next cut "Nothin 2 Lose" is outstanding, M.O.P. get more personal talking about themselves, fallen friends and family, jail and the streets. "Dead & Gone" is another standout, sampling portions of Curtis Mayfields "Let's Do It Again" and featuring background vocals from Battle, Tanya Ray and La Shonda Middleton, M.O.P. pay tribute to fallen friends while addressing death and the afterlife. Album closes off well with "Born 2 Kill" (Jazz Mix). M.O.P. deliver genuine grimey streetlife music with "Firing Squad" an album I would recommend to anyone who enjoy hardcore Hip Hop.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Smokin' Gunz..............Fiyah!, January 30, 2004

By 

Steve Quinones-Knowland (Between New York and Georgia) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Firing Squad (Audio CD)

Honestly, the beats on "Firing Squad" were better than "Warriorz" because most of the tracks are dark and fiery. DJ Premier produced the hotest tracks:

"Firing Squad" jazzy but dark piano loop
"New Jack City" nice work with the xlyophone
"Stick to your gunz" need more Kool G Rap collabos
"Downtown Swinga ('96)" underground classic

The lyrics on this CD are hot. M.O.P. were definitely hungry when the tracks were created. This group has been slept on for years. Respect due.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another solid album for their 2nd --- 4.5 stars, April 9, 2005

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G$ "Z-Wad" (B-More, MD) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: Firing Squad (Audio CD)

Fizzy Womack & Billy Danze return after 2 years and deliver another solid album, my 2nd favorite of their 5 rap albums. Of the 14 songs on here, 2 are classics, 2 are ok and the other 10 are good or great songs. Once again, as with all their albums, you don't get no fake $hi+ just pure gangsta and hardcore. Production is good as with all their albums and done by most of the same people who do all their beats. DJ Premier did 6 songs, Laze-E-Laze did 4, Big Jaz did 3 and Ali Dee did 1. Guests are on the first 3 songs (and are hardcore themselves - Teflon & the great Kool G Rap) so you still get a lot of M.O.P. A must have for real hardcore rap fans not that radio and MTV crap.

#3 - 7.5 (f/ teflon)
#4 - 8.5 (f/ teflon)
#5 - 9 (f/ kool g rap)
#6 - 8
#7 - 9
#8 - 8
#9 - 10 (Classic w/ nice beat)
#10 - 7
#11 - 8.5
#12 - 9.5
#14 - 5
#15 - 10 (Classic w/ good beat -- a little bit of a deeper song)
#17 - 8.5 (another deep song)
#18 - 9 (remix of #7)

BILLY DAZNE -- E. Murray -- b. 1974 -- Brownsville Brooklyn, NY
FIZZY WOMACK -- Jamar Grinnage -- b. around 1976 -- Brownsville, Brooklyn, NY

M.O.P!!!!!!!

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