Customer Reviews

Voices from the Front Line

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This CD is one of the best Hip/Hop CD's I've heard all year! I bought the CD cause I wanted to support the troops and ending up liking it even more than the new T.I. album. The stand out tracks are "First Time", "Girl at War" and my favorite "When I get home". "When I get home" sounds like a mix of Outkast and Ying Yang Twins. Everyone who has a family memeber or friend thats in the service pick up this album cause it really gives you insight to their experience.

Don't know why one reviewer here is so concerned about these folks "stealing ideas." As Woody Guthrie once suggested, "sharing ideas is the essence of folk music." Hip-hop IS folk music, and it was founded on the sharing of ideas, the mixing up of old and new, the actual sampling of other works. Criticizing this CD for "stealing ideas" is the ultimate irony. At any rate, I'm interested in hearing as many voices from soldiers on the front line as possible. This is war. This is reality. It's urgent these voices be heard. Screw who thought of it first. No one has a monopoly on the dissemination of thoughts, feelings and ideas through hip-hop, and this CD is an excellent example of that. A good companion DVD to this CD is the documentary film, "The Ground Truth." You won't hear or see this stuff on CNN, that's for sure.

Yo, this CD is the real deal. Forget what you heard about cats with ak's, glocks, 9mm and all that crap in the world! These cats are going thru some real crap in Iraq and put'n it on beats like crazy! Some real talent! Hope to hear more in the future! ONE

Years from now when we look back on this war in Iraq, this CD will be a good resource for how it was for those who fought it. Men and Women of our US Military now becoming the next, "Greatest Generation".

I didn't listen to any of the samples before I bought this cd, so unfortunately I didn't even know what I was buying. I really like four25 though, and since it had Voices from the Frontline tagged with it I just thought it must be good and be close to that. But it isn't. It's obvious from the beginning that these rappers wouldn't make it in the underground or popular sectors of rap. Their inexperience you can hear right away. The best part of the cd is the little [skit] tracks in between where they just talk about rap and Iraq, which is cool, but I was hoping for good quality music. The one rapper that I thought had potential, Truck, was only featured in one song. That was track 6, I think I liked track 10 too, whoever that is. And then possibly track 18 or 19? But I mean a lot of talking and 2 or 3 good tracks for sixteen bucks. Please. You can get great underground cd's for like $8/$9 and they blow this cd out of the water. So yeah they can all go back to Iraq and practice their rapping and beatboxing somemore.

looks like a rip off version of the real deal. The 4th 25th- Live From Iraq, is the real deal. buy that, not this.