Search - Don Yute :: Adrenalin

No. Just No. . .

Achis | Kingston, JA/Philipsburg, SxM | 02/20/2002

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I think Don Yute's best musical quality might actually be the downfall of this album. Yute has what he calls world-hop, and its new and innovating and exciting, all that good stuff. However, on Adrenalin, it just really never seems to get off the ground. Yute seemingly has a hard time deciding if he wants to do dancehall or hip-hop and while several top dancehall artists also share the same problem (i.e. Elephant Man, Baby Cham) those artists ultimately pull it off brilliantly, where Yute's star pretty much just stops shining. He has guestspots from some of dancehalls current royalty including Wayne Wonder and Mr. Vegas on Lovin Excess and Bamboo De Yah respectively but even they fail to save the quality of this album from dropping so low. He also has a track (Yu Own De Man) produced by Dave Kelly and a Sean Paul riddim on Gal Catalogue, also a guest spot from rapper Chyna White, but none of it, and I mean none of it helps too much. Overall, I think the thing that might have most helped this album is a better flow by Don Yute, he needs to work on his skills and he probably shouldn't even have had an album at this point in his career, also his best song (Get It On with Cecile isn't even on the album. I would only recommend this if you are an absolute nutty fan, in which case you probably already have this one, otherwise, just wait and see if Yute gets better with more experience."