Search - N.W.A. :: Niggaz4life

Underrated nightmarish rap album

Tishauna Diana Delacroix Starr | LA and GA | 05/18/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Its true that while cube was gone alot of the social messages went with him.cube was the socio-political anchor of the group but he eventually would leave.so now Gone are the urban morality tales and "street knowledge" tracks of the previous album. The songs here are pure ghetto nightmares. The lyrics are haunting, ominous, and as raw as anything that could have been allowed on record shelves in 1991 or today for that matter.



its kinda like when all of the political leaders of the black panther party was either killed,went into a self imposed EXILE,or went to jail.and what was left of the party was the remnants militeristic part of the group "The BLA" (The Black liberation Army).So in essence CUBE was the Socio-political master mind,and when he left the only thing that was left was the urban Guerillas .and without the angry violent social-political commentary the group lost not only its edge but its intemidation factor aswell.face it they wasnt as much of a threat with out bitting social political undertone.



the first half of the album is just straight up gangsta warfare with no sense of purpose.just violent mindless nightmare tales of the inner city.the second half is just raunchy sex songs.



the album might not have a sense of purpopse but ULTIMATELY this is their most realized album as far a hitting their stride,and dr dres production was at its best on this album.



so the album does balance itself out,but it really depends on prefrence more so than wether or not this album is good or not"