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Paper Route

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One word, "DOPE". Mack 10's fourth album is hotter than ever. You wont find yourself flipping through the songs to get to the Hot Trax on this Album. Mack knows how to keep it real from start to finish. From the "WestSide" gang feat. in "Nobody" to the dirty lyrics of Too Short to the original voice of Mack's new wife T-Boz. This record Features some of the hottest players in the rap game today. I have to say that I honestly belive that the paper route is mack 10's best album to date! I didn't think he could do it, but he has! The Dope Man did it agian!

Mack 10 is back for his 4th solo album, just shy of 2 years after he released "The Recipe" and I like this one a little bit more. Like with all his albums since "The Recipe" guests are all over the album. Only 11 songs, 2 of which are solo's (2 the guests only do the hook). Production is good and done by 9 different people. As usual he talks about hustlin, gangsta $hi+ and his dirty songs. Caviar and Rashad Coes each do 2 songs, and timbaland, beat ballers, young trey, rick rock, mark twayne, leslie braithwait, and easy mo bee each do 1 song. It has 1 classic, 1 or 2 that are ok (1 I skip sometimes), and the rest are good. A good album to have for Mack Dime fans.

#2 - 8.5 (f/ monty noble -- tight beat)
#3 - 8 (f/ ice cube, wc, and timbaland)
#5 - 10 (Classic song talking about dope using metaphors)
#6 - 9 (dirty song w/ good beat -- f/ too $hort, techniec)
#7 - 6.5 (f/ t-boz -- good beat but better w/o her on it)
#8 - 9 (tight beat -- f/ techniec, xzibit, caviar, pinky, skoop delania)
#9 - 8.5 (f/ jazze pha)
#10 - 8.5 (about the hustle game)
#11 - 8 (f/ techniec, kokane -- about spousal abuse)
#12 - 7 (f/ youngbloodz, techniec, and big gipp of Goodie Mobb)
#13 - 8 (f/ techniec, ice cube)

D.Rolison --b. 8/9/71 -- Inglewood, CA
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This joint ain't Mack 10's best album,but it's still worth buying.Like always Mack put's the real on records and the beats is really what disappointed some.For the majority of the beats on here they're ok thoy.On this one it features Ice Cube, WC,Young Bloodz,his wife T-Boz,Timbaland,Xzibit,Kokane and others.This is still a good album,it just ain't got that gangsta, gangsta feel to it like his other albums.Regardless to that Mack 10 still made a tight album and I'm glad I bought it.

I like One-O, but this album is a step back rather than forward. His flow has improved greatly, but the music and lyrics are weak. "Nobody" is a the best song. "From the Streetz" too. Maybe the songs on the album were arranged wrong because he put the two best at the beginning. I would suggest buying this CD and playing it with the player on shuffle. That way you get to here the mediocre, the good and the not so good without getting restless.

Mack 10 seems to have lost it. Like Ice Cube with War and Peace, he tries to sound hard with an edge but you can tell he's trying too hard. He seems to have lost his hunger along with Ice Cube after the Westside Connection album. This is probably 10's worst album has he continues to fall. WC's the only hope for the old Westside Connection. Mack 10's gangsta believability is very very questionable after putting out a pretty lousy album here.

Hmmm..."From The Streetz" hits hard, "Hustle Game" features GREAT production work by EASY MO BEE, "Tha Weekend" has a pretty cool hook from ICE CUBE, "Pop X" has a nice, underground-ish, ALKAHOLICS-type sound (not to mention a great XZIBIT cameo)and "I'm Dope" is a fun drug metaphor song (dope horns, too--pun intended! Ha ha ha!). Unfortunately, the rest of this seems rushed and just doesn't have enough juice. It seems like he tried to reach too many markets. "Tight To Def" shows that R&B isn't the Chicken Hawk's thing. The southern collaboration ("For Sale" with THE YOUNGBLOODZ and BIG GIPP) just doesn't do it for me, either. "Keep it Gangsta" is underdeveloped and too simplistic, and the beats on "Spousal Abuse" (interesting topic, though), "Nobody" and "Pimp or Die" rob the lyrics (especially WC's) of their potential impact. Since this album came out, though, MACK 10 has signed with CASH MONEY and admitted in an interview that he had his differences with PRIORITY (on which this CD was released) and that they didn't know how to promote him right. This could explain the slapdash quality here. My advice? If you're a MACK 10 fan, buy it, but if you're a novice who wants to get to know MACK 10, buy his first CD (1995's "MACK 10") and THE WESTSIDE CONNECTION'S "Bow Down" CD instead. WHY do once-cool musicians always let the money change them? As BILL COSBY once said: "there's no guarantee for success. But the guaranteed way to fail is to try to please everybody." Think about it.

Dont think that I hate Mack 10. His first self-titled album and Based On A True Story were undeniably west coast classics but if any album was the tip off to this stink bomb of album it would have to be The Recipe. For starters Mack 10 doesnt sound as hungry as he did on his previous albums,the production is just as weak and Techniec is on five tracks in the album and everybody knows that he sounded better on Game's mixtapes then he does on here. The Good: From tha Streetz was a good first single to kick off the album with, I'm Dope was hard and Pimp Or Die(featuring Techniec and Too Short) is also a highlight. Sorry to say but these are the only tracks that stick out. The Bad: Tight To Def featuring his former wife and TLC member T-Boz was a tepid second single and why he chose it to be his next single is anyone's guess. For Sale which features YoungBloodz and Big Gipp is deader than disco and that has to be the worst verse of Big Gipp's rap career. Hustle Game and Keep It Gangsta will knock you out like elephant tranquilizer(yes they are that boring). The Ugly: Nobody featuring Westside Connection is the worst song on here and that has to be the worst beat that Timbaland has ever produced next to Diddy Rock! Spousal Abuse is so corny you'll break out into hysterics, Pop X is hot rubbish and everybody on the track(with the exception of Xzibit) had some lame verses and Tha Weekend is just as awful but I must say that the positive thing about that track is that its the last song. Bottom Line: Its unanimously agreed that The Paper Route is Mack 10's worst album. You can tell a rush job when you hear it and this album was an obvious rush job. In comparison to Mack 10 and Based On A True Story, Paper Route is extremely pale in comparison and will be forgotten like Bang Or Ball.

Some of my colleagues recommended that I write a review about how Mack 10 should pay a price for its nefarious sleazy witticisms. This is that review. What follows is a set of observations I have made about puerile maniacs. There are some simple truths in this world. First, "Paper Route" chooses to ignore the fact that it is utterly ridiculous that I have to be faced with Machiavellians whose gloomy conclusions are constantly treated with apathy. Second, its policies are indistinguishable from the ones it condemns. And finally, it is always prating about how you and I are morally inferior to invidious slackers. (It used to say that its vices are the only true virtues, but the evidence is too contrary, so it's given up on that score.) Does Mack 10 actually think its arguments through, or does it just chug along on its computer writing about whatever trite proposed social programs happen to suit its needs that day? I ask, because we can't let "Paper Route" enrich itself at taxpayer expense. Think about it, and I'm sure you'll agree with me.

A word to the wise: When Mack 10 was first found trying to go to great lengths to conceal its true aims and mislead the public, I was scared. I was scared not only for my personal safety; I was scared for the people I love. And now that "Paper Route" is planning to muzzle its critics, I'm downright terrified. The devil not only finds too much mischief for idle hands to do, but increasingly in our contemporary world, he causes lethargic cads to impale us on the pike of pharisaism. Mack 10 is willing to promote truth and justice when it's convenient. But when it threatens its creature comforts, "Paper Route" throws principle to the wind. If I didn't sincerely believe that whenever a will-o'-the-wisp of sesquipedalianism, however unreal, turns up anywhere, "Paper Route" is off at a trot, then I wouldn't be writing this review. To be blunt, Mack 10's machinations are based on a denial of reality, on the substitution of a deliberately falsified picture of the world in place of reality. And this dishonesty, this refusal to admit the truth, will have some very serious consequences for all of us before long. It is no accident that the original purpose of imperialism was to acquire public acceptance of Mack 10's foul words. So I give you this review. I hope it helps.

Just one word .. PERFECT , every track iz dope ! If every CD you buy would be like that one would not have to mix "best of" CDs cause everything would be just fine !! So don't make the mistake not to buy this great cd ! Look out for the new one of Ja Rule, Xzibit and Bad Azz.

I've become a Mack 10 fan over the past 3 years or so, but since I've gotten older my Hip-Hop hunger has waivered. I now use Hip-Hop for motivation at the gym mostly and I hafta' say...this one leaves something to be desired. The two top songs (in my opinion) are: NOBODY and FROM THE STREETZ. It all begins to go south from there. It's almost like Mack 10 has reach his goals in this industry and just put a MACK 10 CD out to satisfy a contract. I'm not hatin' in ANY way, but I've burned 90% of Mack's songs on his other CD's to my workout CD's, but only 2 MAYBE 3 made the cut from this one.....it might hafta' go to the USED bin at the local CD store. Here's hoping that Mack 10, CUBE and the rest of the Hoo' Bangin' affiliates don't forget about the fans that STILL want that EDGE...keep on keepin' on! --Chkmate