Customer Reviews

Untouchable

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I thought that a Mac Mall track which was not produced by Khayree would never reach my ears, but this was a great album. Pimp or Die, produced by Ant Banks was off the hook. I also liked the story raps he brought with Opening Doors and Get Away. Get Right remains an inspirational classic, and the relaxed feel of Crestside is a track one can kick back and listen to on a good day and feel okay with life. This may not be on Young Black Brotha Records, but this is a great follow up to Illegal Business?, and any rap fan who does not feel this is probably a mainstream rap fan who only likes Jay-Z, the Wu, and Cash Money. Open up to the bay and take a chance on a young playa named Mac Mall.

This is tha Mac's straight fire. Representing V-Town puttin it down. Listen to the whole cd all the way through and if you dont like it then you a little b!tch and you dont know what good rap is. Buy this muthafu<kin CD!

Tight album...I recommend you get all of Mall's cds, you will not be dissapointed if you are a fan of Westcoast and Bay Area Rap...But if you like that punk music like No Limit, Cash Money, Bad Boy, Ruff Ryders than this album probably isn't your cup of tea...Its way above you.

An excellent come back from mall. He came with some real deep lyrics on this one, the tracks are tight too. He talks about a lot of problems and deals with issues from his heart on this. He came back and on this album and showed he was a serious rapper who had something to say. He has a good flow too advancing from the last album. These were the days when mall was ripping s#it properly. I don't feel his later stuff. I recommend this to anyone who wants a good, serious album from the bay. This is another tight one for the collection. Peace!

This is one of the best Bay Area rap albums ever. Mac Mall is an extremly gifted rapper. He is one of those artists whojust tells what he sees, feels and thinks. Some of the best producers worked on that album - Mike Mosley, Ric Roc, Khayree, Ant Banks, Cold 187um and others. Mac Mall raps about mainly about life on the streets and his own way to success. Just one track features other rappers. It's one of the albums best tracks - "Pimp or Die" and there Ray Luv and Young Lay just tear it up. This is a very good album, it has perfect music to it and Mac Mall (a.k.a. Baby Capone) proves that he is one of the most talented young rappers out there in the industry. He is real, and he ain't no wanna-be hustler. He just tells it how it is. If you love West Coast rap, especially the Bay Area it's a must-have for you.

songs like untouchable and servin' game are off tha hook. The whole cd is great just to buy it and see for yourself!

i dont know what TMoney is talking about Mac mall is from valleo not Oakland but anyway. Mall's first album was a tite release but not as good as this album. this is deffinently malls best album he has came out with. a lot of his newer albums have been kinda weak but i would suggest anyone who is a rap fan to pick this album up you would be disapionted

this is the one of the best bay area albums out there. mac mall a.k.a baby kapone is a savage. he tore it up in illegal business and in this album too. he keeps his sh!t on the real. i give it five stars because i cant give it six.

Mac Mall's 1996 album "Untouchable" is an album that really grew on me. I remember first buying it and expecting a standard Young Black Brotha Records album like Ray Luv's "Forever Hustlin'," Dubee's "Dubee aka Sugawolf," or Young Lay's "Black 'n Dangerous," and this album is pretty different from those other YBB releases of 1995 and 1996. When I first had it, I wasn't very impressed with it at all, but the more I listened the more I really began to get into the deep grooves and Mac Mall's hypnotic flow. The list of producers includes YBB's in-house man Khayree, as well as Mike Mosley and Ant Banks, the Bay Area's three best producers. It doesn't sound like a traditional YBB release because Khayree doesn't produce the whole thing. It's kind of odd, though, because the beats throughout this album are quite similar, at times to the point of monotony. Some of the songs will even kind of run together in your mind. But after a few listens, for me at least, the bass heavy, synth woozy production really begins to make your head nod, and I guess for me it was kind of an acquired case. Mac Mall is a cool MC, he has a really great flow with a kind of high pitched voice that spits Bay Area slang effortlessly. He doesn't sound quite as ridiculous as E-40 but their deliveries are sometimes similar. Mac tells the traditional Bay Area tales of "triple-beams and ice cream," but he also does a little philosophizing at times. His subject matter may get a little tiresome as there is a whole lot of it on "Untouchable." The tracks are pretty well-polished, and they all have nice hooks. This is really simple gangsta rap, so some fans looking for a lot of lyrical substance might want to look elsewhere, but Mac has style and charisma. "Untouchable" is a cool album from a good MC that showcases the unique Bay Area style.

After a cool 1-minute instrumental intro, the album begins with "Let's Get a Telly," which has a hard-hitting standard Bay Area beat and Mac Mall doing his thing. It's a solid song but not exactly a standout. "Straight Lace" is more catchy and upbeat. "Servin' Game" is a decent song speaking of the crime life involved in such activity. "Young N..." is funky and has nice bass. "Dopefiend's Lullaby" is woozy and appealing musically, and Mac Mall adjusts his delivery to it nicely, a very nice track. Lyrically "Ghetto Stardom" is the album's standout, because Mac steps back from his crime tales and talks about the other side of it. He wonders why so many people must engage in such a risky lifestyle, and the chorus is emphasizes it ("They tried to tell us in the verses and the scriptures, but I guess the real message musta missed us..."). The production is also very nice on this track, it's a real highlight. I also love the song "Get Right," which has an inescapable chorus and Mac's hardest verses. This song induces head-nodding from start to finish. The upbeat "Playas With da Choppas" follows, with the similar "Get Away" next. "Pimp or Die" is a nice track featuring Ray Luv (for the record, Ray Luv's verse was just taken from his song "In the Game" and laid over a new beat). The beat is very nice here and it's a feel-good track. The title track is strong but sounds very similar to a lot of the other tracks. He gets autobiographical on "Opening Doors" which has a soulful chorus, which precedes the average "Playa Tip." "Crestside" represents his home, the last song before the outro, which sounds just like the intro.

"Untouchable" is pretty basic gangsta rap, but it's well done and I think it's something that many listeners will find appealing. It's consistent enough that you can pretty much listen to it straight through, and this might be a good starting point for people unfamiliar with the Bay Area genre. I recommend it to fans of E-40 or Celly Cel, and also to fans of YBB, even though it's definitely more similar to the former. It's almost worth it just for "Get Right," "Ghetto Stardom" and the other handful of standouts, but it's definitely a nice disc to add to the collection.

this is without a doubt one of the best cd's of all time. mac mall is a very underrated, un recognized artist and deserves more attention. Every song on this cd is worth listening to, the whole cd is great, my favorite song would have to be track 2 , lets get a telly