Customer Reviews

Units in the City

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Who keeps giving out record deals to cats that can't flow and don't talk about anything at all worth hearing? He must be real good friends with Gucci Mane to get this shot, because I know of and heard plenty of artists that should've been signed over this dude. Some of the beats are not too bad, but they're wasted by probably the most annoying voice I ever heard on the mic. That song Dey Know actually is the only good song on this CD, and that ain't saying much. I know there is a market for everything and to each his own, but this guy is garbage straight up.

You know, I was never a big fan of Magoo, but he was tolerable over Timbaland's production. This time out, he dropped Timbaland (which is ALWAYS a bad idea), bought some incredibly goofy lookin' sunglasses, and turned in his best Rick Ross impression. The thing that irks me the most is that he changed his name to Shawty Lo and started rapping like Young Jeezy instead of giving us the Q-Tip imitation that he's been known for all these years. He's never been all that great on the mic, but Magoo...I mean, Lo...really embarrasses himself this time out. Joints like "Dunn, Dunn" and "100,000" are straight up corny. As a matter of fact, every song on this album is doo doo, straight up. He basically made the same song 15 times and he's obviously fooled a small number of people on Amazon -- at press time, two people -- into thinking this album is original or, at the very least, noteworthy when it's nothing more than a link in the chain of terrible "music" flooding the market. And what's up with the whispering over every track? He runs Bankhead talking like that? lol Well, if he runs Bankhead -- which I highly doubt -- then he should probably tell a good number of them to buy this album as I'm afraid that's the only way he'll keep from going wood on the charts.

The only two positives I can think of is the fact that Magoo/Shawty Lo kept it under an hour. The production, though terribly generic, is good for bouncing to as well -- thus the ½ star I gave it. I find it gives me the energy to do my daily chores with zeal. Outside of that, this album is a steaming lump of zebra poo.

Units In The City is simply another in the long line of forgettable "dope boy" albums. Fans (?) will play it to death and move on once it wears off in a week or two. I'm pretty sure this album will be making a pilgrimage in staggering numbers to a dollar bin near you within the next 4 or 5 months -- you can quote me on that. I can't recommend this album to anyone, but if you must own this, wait until that happens. Or, you could download the lead single for free and keep it movin'.

Standout Tracks: They Know (Dey Know)

Worst CD i've bought in a long time an I buy a lot of CD's. To save you the time, here's whats up with this cd. Shawty Lo is a wanna be Young Jeezy, which he proves with songs like "Let's Get It". His voice is too low and raspy to even hear if you have any bass in your car. Dey Know is a good song but you can just turn on the radio to here that. Don't buy it, it sucks, hopefully Shawty Lo will never make another album again.

Address is 151st Walsh Ave., and new zipcode & address is new too. I'm just afraid that people steal stuff that they see in front porch.

the cd good but you got to understand what he sayin my fave song off this cd is (georgia lotto) (feels good to be here) (dey know) (dunn dunn) ( got em fo the lo) get

if you love Shawty, check out his homie Devin the Dude Smoke Sessions, Vol. 1- track 3 getting high is something to smoke to - whoah - this is the first album since Rapalot Days and the first album of Devin's to hit the Billboard Charts - Congrats

This CD definitely lived up to my expectations. Well, I had a lot of these songs on mixtapes that I've bought over the last year. And I liked them all so much, I decided Shawty Lo was worth it and went out and bought the CD. The beats are a little on the slow side, not a lot of high-energy type of music, but its a good laid back album. The beats are at least catchy, and it doesn't make you mad when one gets stuck in your head. The lyrics are pretty good for the most part, nothing too groundbreaking, but nothing too annoying or repetitive.
Dont listen to the idiots giving this CD one star, most of them were written by people who either didnt even listen to the whole CD or are so clueless that they think Shawty Lo and Magoo are the same person, lmao!

Yea so I first heard this cd and wanted to burn it. Then I listened again and I love it. I dont know how the hell it grew on me like that but I love this cd.

I've listened to all kinds of rap, from Black Moon to A Tribe Called Quest, to the Pharcyde, to Spice One, to UNLV, to Goodie Mob, to Nas, to K Gates, to Lupe Fiasco, to Little Brother, to Common Sense, to Mac and everything inbetween. I'm not one of these new comers who just started listening to rap five years ago and now pretends to be a rap expert. I've been listening to rap for 26 years (I'm 26 years old). Plus, I listen to other genres of music, including artists such as Bebel Gilberto, Goldfrapp, Air, Royksopp, Massive Attack, Zero 7, Phillippe Saise, Norman Brown, Smashing Pumpkins, Elaine Elias, Fleetwood Mac, The Emotions, Atlantic Starr, Donny Hathaway etc etc.

That being said, this Units In The City is a good album. I'm sick and tired of rap snobs and wannabe rap experts hollering and crying about lyrics. I've got news for you guys, the first rappers were not spitting out complex similies (sp) and metaphors. Whether you like it or not, they were nursery rhyme raps. Yes, rap has advanced (as it should) and lyrics have become more complex and substantive. However, rap is art and there are different types of art. There's the complex stuff and then there's the straightforward, simple stuff and there's nothing wrong with either, they're just different. All rappers don't have to be the same and all rappers don't have to come with thesaraus raps. We need the simple rappers and the complex rappers and everything in between to make rap enjoyable and I can appreciate all forms (if it's good). HOWEVER, my only critisizm of Shawty Lo and other rappers such as Young Jeezy is that they glamorize selling dope and breaking the law, which can be disastrous for our increasingly impressionable youth.

trash, i rather listen to mc hammer then this clown. most wack rappers atleast have good beats. this wack rap is killing the genre