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Give It 2 Em Raw

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Whats up slim? This is ya boy Red, it's comin up on one year since you been gone, we all miss ya lots down in chopper city, I'm letting everyone know love for you will never die. Keep it real with God up there and tell him to go easy on me when I finish your business.

i think this one soulja slim's best albums the beats are great and the lyrics are great if you a soulja fan you should pick up this album R.I.P soulja slim a.k.a. James Tapp

Master P didn't know who he had at the time until it was to late for P to sign him to the label in 01'. I knew of Soulja before this album came out and so naturally I had to get this album. Soulja's songs were different from the No Limit roster it wasn't the same i'm a soulja line, he translated the streets in real time talk and didn't hold nothing back. When C-Murder and Mac appeared on this album it was bananas. You could have had an instant group.

GIVE IT 2 'EM RAW IS ON ANOTHER LEVEL

Soulja Slim has some of the purest lyrics I've ever heard, no one's voice sounds like his, and no one raps like him, Head Buster featuring Big Ed and Mr.Serv-On is the best cut on the album with several others close behind, if you like the dirty south music I suggest you cop Soulja Slim's Give it 2 'em Raw.

Soulja Slims debut CD is tight as hell,He is one of the best to come out of No Limit.This is a great CD,you will definitly like this CD,so I suggest when your getting this CD you get the new Kane and Abel CD it's off the hook!!!11

The years is 1998 and No Limit is the sound of the south pumping out 2-3 cd's a month and Soulja Slim's time came. As far as quality, like most of the No Limit albums I have (about 20), its a 4 star album, probably in the upper half of the labels albums that I own. Packed with songs and label mates as guests,(like all No Limit albums of the time), Slim delivers 20 songs for you. Guests are on 15 of the 20 songs so you don't get a ton of Slim. 3 songs I skip, 4-7 are ok, the rest are good - a few being real good. Production is nice like most of the No Limit albums that the Beats By the Pound Crew do. Carlos Stephens and KLC each do 6 songs, Craig B does 4 songs, Mo B Dick & O'Dell each do 2 songs and DJ Darryl does 1 song.

#1 - 9 (nice beat)
#2 - 8.5 (f/ Master P, Silkk the Shocker, O'Dell -- nice beat)
#3 - 8 (f/ O'Dell)
#4 - 7.5 (f/ Snoop Dogg)
#5 - 6.5
#6 - 8 (f/ Master P & Trinity -- dedicated to their moms)
#7 - 7 (f/ Big Ed (R.I.P.), Mr Serv-On)
#8 - 7.5 (f/ full Blooded)
#9 - 7.5 (f/ Mia X)
#10 - 8 (f/ Master P)
#11 - 5 (f/ Mia X)
#12 - 8.5 (f/ C-Murder & Mac -- nice beat)
#13 - 8.5 (f/ master P -- nice beat)
#14 - 4.5
#15 - 4 (f/ Mystikal & Trinity)
#16 - 8 (he raps real fast)
#17 - 8.5 (nice beat)
#18 - 7 (f/ Steady Mobbin)
#19 - 8 (f/ Fiend, Full Blooded, Silkk the Shocker)
#20 - 7 (f/ about 16 No Limit rappers)

James Trapp -- b. 9/9/77 d. 11/26/03 -- New Orleans, LA
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one of the tighter no limit cds from its era, soulja slim was one of the best rappers master p ever signed up there with c murder,silkk,mac,and mr.serv on,this cd is one to pick up, check out the following songs, after you listen to these i think you either will agree, or buy the album. 1.from what i was told, 2.street life,7.head buster,8.me and my cousin,12.imagine,14.wootay,18.hustlin is a habit,20. n.l. party, street life is the best song on the cd though

Back in 1998, I was informed about this cd. Thinking to myself "What the hell" I bought it. Needless to say I was highly impressed and pleased with this cd. "From What I was Told", the albums opener expressed his feelings toward the rap game to the game of life and the album gets better from there.

Among the albums many highlights are "At The Same Time" (featuring a lyrically focused Snoop Dogg), "Me And my Cousin", "Anything", & "NL Party" (a cluttered track featuring 17 No Limit artist)

Though he did not weild Jay-Z's rhyme book, Nas' metaphor's, or Puffy's money, this cd to me will ALWAYS be a landmark in excellent music. May his soul forever rest in peace.

No Limit albums are like baseball cards. They're mostly interchangeable, but once you buy your first, a funny urge to collect them all wells up in the back of your skull. Of course, music as pure product has it's own issues. I wouldn't bother reviewing most of the No Limit output from the late nineties, simply because I doubt I could string enough words together to make it worthwhile. "Give It To 'Em Raw" stands a bit above it's peers. Sure, Beats By The Pound handles full album production, and yes, the booklet is filled with advertisements for upcoming discs. It has a standard Pen & Pixel cover, and the usual filler that clogged all rap albums at the time is present. The difference is Soulja Slim buried some gems here amongst the rubble, and even if Southern rap doesn't appeal to you, this is one record from below the Mason-Dixon Line that might be worth a spin or two.

"You Got It (II)" has those really whiny synths that Dr. Dre used to great effect on "Efil4Zaggin". Now, BBTP isn't Dre by any stretch, but they manage to conjure the same hazy menace. In fact, the thickness of Slim's accent, the fact that most of us Yanks won't be able to catch every word he says, makes it all the more unsettling. Another standout is "Anything", with Slim and Mia X trading sex rhymes over a dark bass-and-synth driven beat. "Law Brekaz" is downright claustrophobic, and Slim's paranoia about being robbed or killed is so palpable it could ride shogtun with "My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me". Sadly, paranoia is occasionally justified, as Slim was murdered just a few years after "Give It To 'Em Raw" dropped. It's hard to keep that out of your mind even on the lighter tracks, like the Parliament derivative "No Limit Party". No less than sixteen emcees (and that's being kind to some of these cats) tear through eight bars apiece in about five minutes. Works perfect as a closer.

There is a lot of midi-sounding junk. Most of the lyrics outside the highlighted tracks tend toward the "streets are dangerous/stay strapped/dealing/using/I'm negative because of my screwed up childhood" variety. Public Enemy or Main Source this isn't. However, I'd gladly take negative mental baggage over mindless boasting of material goods (Baby, I'm looking atchoo) any day. $20 bucks for a used disc is ridiculous, so try rooting around at your friendly neighborhood flea markets. RIP Soulja Slim. Thanks for the music.

Man I had to come back after reading everybodies reviews...i'm from way back on No Limit shot i remember when there waznt a No Limit just "Tru Who's Da Killer?" i swear to you I waz Deep in to No Limit NO ONE KNEW MORE ABOUT THEM THEN ME!!!i had every cd they came out wiff up in till they got stupid and dat waz right when new poeple started comeing like lil'itily and so on if you a real No Limit fan you know what i'm talking about What Happen to QB he would of been cold too.If You ask me get all of No Limit's cd's if you like bassed cd wiff nice lyrics. this is a Great Cd Buy It ASAP every song waz good not just sum go Cop you one