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Obie Trice- Not as Great as the First Round, But Not Bad!

Rodnick Darden | MPLS, MN USA | 08/19/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"It really had slipped under my radar that Obie Trice was coming out with his second album this month. I hadn't really heard anything from him in awhile except for recently. It's been three years since his debut dropped which was an excellent effort! Cheers was a very enjoyable album with it's lighthearted humor, tales of things he'd been through, dis tracks and deep, painful songs. It was probably one of the more underrated albums of '03. Second Round's On Me didn't quite reach the level of Cheers after me first listen, but there is no sophomore jinx in my view either. It is still good listen. The CD starts off with what Obie talked about in his listen album with him and his mom, a skit that revisits that moment when his mom discovered the work he was selling and kicked him out the house. It leads into a track called Wake Up, which Obie challenges his people to wake up and realize what it is they want to do with their lives. Violent is a cool track, then after that you have Wanna Know and Snitch, which were the first two tracks I heard before the album. They have grown on me a lot. Wanna Know has a rock edgy feel to it as it samples from Van Halen and Snitch features Akon on the hook which made the song even tighter! Cry Now is probably one of the better tracks along with Ballad of Obie Trice and Jamaican Girl. After that, the album kind of tails off in the latter half. Maybe only a few songs that you can take out of there. The song with Eminem, Big Herk and Trick Trick is one of them as Obie and Em really work well together as they did on the first album. The track where Nate Dogg makes an appearance as okay for now. Everywhere I Go with 50 kind of caught me by surprise. When I saw the package, I figured it would be a violent song or a type of clubbanger beat to it. Not even! It's kind of slowed down off-pace beat on which at the end they talk of how thoughts change once you get a chance to step outside the hood and see other things. Pretty decent track! Obie's Story is probably the best on the back end. He tells his story from childhood when he was excelling in school to young adulthood with his being a drug dealer to growing up as a man and becoming a father which changed his whole demeanor and way of life into being a rapper. What makes even tighter is how they switched up the beat to match the points in the story. The beat starts off all happy-go-lucky with its upbeat feel, then goes into deep heavy bass and drum type deal where you can feel pain and anger of the beat and goes back again when he starts to talk about life with his daughter. Listen for yourself to see what I'm talking about. It was a very nice wrap-up. This album kind of strays away from Cheers as Obie tries to take it in another direction with the production he got, although he kind of stays with his first album in the aspect of going a bit deeper into his own life. I cannot give this album the level status of Cheers, but Obie keeps himself around with another good effort. Thanks for seconds!"

Banging

K. Thurston | 08/28/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This album is of the chainzzz Obie did his thing since i bought this album its have neever leave my car cd player all the songs are banging love the skits cant wait for the third album"