Search - Snoop Dogg, Tha Eastsidaz :: Free Tray Deee 1

Hot!...But...

502 | Harm City USA | 11/12/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a weird CD. Not musically weird, because it may be one of the best recordings to come out of the west coast hip-hop scene in the last year or two (along with The Game's "The Documentary & Warren G's "In The Midnight Hour"). But weird in the fact that it seemingly came out of nowhere & the CD itself gives no clue as to it's origin. There are no liner notes, production credits or any information as to when or where it was recorded. The sound quality is excellent which is what matters most, but otherwise, this is very cheaply put together, for some reason. Even the cover photo of the group is out of focus. By all accounts, this is all new, or at least relatively new Eastsidaz material. Most of the usual suspects pop up for some good collabos. Nate Dogg, MC Ren(!), Kokane, Suga Free & even Redman guest on various tracks. Even familiar themes & skits, like the "WBallz" radio spots are included. However, the CD suffers to a degree, because there is about a 8 second silence between tracks which makes the flow of the album non-existent. Also, the sequencing is a little off as well. Max "The Mack" Julien has a great skit in the middle of the disc, but it would have been even better if it had been the CD's intro. There's also two bonus tracks, that go uncredited entirely. Some featured artist on certain tracks are uncredited also. Never mind all the minuses, though. True DPGC fans will be feeling this. With the exception of "Vegetarian" which is kind of a wack track that champions eating pork(?), it's tight all the way through. If it could find major label distrubution, and fix it's minor issues, this could be considered near classic material."

3.5 star album from the "Eastsidaz"

G$ | B-More, MD | 11/21/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Their 3rd group album, if you want to call it that, comes 4 years after thier 2nd and best album. Most of these seem like they are from 2000 - 2001 time frame and just were never used. With 17 songs, you get some more of the Eastsidaz, Goldie Loc is on all 17 songs, Tray Deee is on 15 and Snoop is only on 7. Other guests drop in on about half teh songs as well. Of the 17 songs, 1 is almost a classic, 1 I skip, 7 are ok and the other 8 are good, nothing great though. Production credits aren't given but I know Battlecat does a few songs and Jelly Roll does at least 1. For their fans I'd cop this but they have much better work. As usual Tray Deee far outshines Goldie Loc with his nice raspy gangsta voice and tight flow, Goldie is average at best once again.



#1 - 7.5 (snoop, goldie, tray)

#2 - 8 (tray & goldie)

#3 - 7.5 (goldie, tray, snoop)

#4 - 8 (MC ren, tray, goldie)

#5 - 7.5 (tray, goldie, doggy's angels)

#7 - 7 (goldie, battlecat, tray deee, mr. maestro, and some1 else who isn't credited or good -- dirty song nice beat)

#8 - 8.5 (snoop, goldie, tray -- nice beat, dirty song)

#9 - 8 (goldie, tray, nate dogg -- nice beat, another dirty one)

#10 - 8.5 (tray, goldie, suga free, kokane -- nice beat and another dirty track)

#11 - 8.5 (goldie, tray, snoop, kokane -- funny hook and good beat)

#12 - 7.5 (goldie, tray, kokane, 40 glocc)

#13 - 9.5 (goldie, tray, redman -- great beat)

#14 - 6 (tray, goldie, snooP)

#15 - 6.5 (goldie, tray)

#16 - 8 (goldie, tray, jelly roll)

#17 - 7 (snoop, goldie)

#18 - 5 (kokane f/ goldie & snoop -- kokane whines for about 4 mins. then they each do 8 bars)



GOLDIE LOC -- K. Spillman -- Long Beach, CA

TRAY DEEE -- Tracy Davis -- b. around 1967 -- Long Beach, CA

SNOOP DOGG -- Calvin Broadus - b. 10/20/72 -- Long Beach, CA



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