Mike Jones featuring Slim Thug and Paul Wall - Still Tippin' Chopped and Screwed Version
** (out of four)
I've seen "Still' Tippin'" by Mike Jones pop up twice in an hour. I'm not entirely sure why. The beat is spare and fairly tight, but the rapping itself is voice-processed in that deep, evil-voice way that makes it sound slowed down, slurred and monotone. What is intended to be bad-ass instead comes out sounding semi-retarded. And it makes the song - even when it switches to rappers Slim Thug and Paul Wall - sound even more repititious than its four-bar beat already renders it.
But, and this may be more to the credit of the trace amounts of marijuana I just smoked, the whole thing is almost mesmerizing for a minute or two. Before it all just sounds like some kind of outtake from Prince's "Bob George," the talked-out, deep-evil-voice-processed track off the Black Album.
The video? Maybe it's been, you know, chopped and screwed out of its original glory, but it's just your standard collection of clips of dancing girls; shots of the DJ, face screwed up in conversation; pimped-out cars rolling down the street, some of them featuring neon-light writing on the interior of the trunk - not part of your standard factory options package but well worth the additional cost. And don't forget the posse of G-thugs standing in the street with t-shirts that read "Property of Mike Jones."
And, I mean, I know it's great to get your name out there and all, but do you really want a video full of black men with shirts that say they're owned by somebody named Mike Jones? It's been 140 years, yeah, but take it from me and my existing police record - slavery's still kind of a touchy issue amongst the urban community.
One more question - who starts out in the hip-hop industry looking to pick a unique MC name that sounds badass and that everyone will remember and then settles on Mike Jones? I don't care if it's his real name or not, he really should have sat down and done a little brainstorming.
NOTE: This review written March 8, 2005
I've seen "Still' Tippin'" by Mike Jones pop up twice in an hour. I'm not entirely sure why. The beat is spare and fairly tight, but the rapping itself is voice-processed in that deep, evil-voice way that makes it sound slowed down, slurred and monotone. What is intended to be bad-ass instead comes out sounding semi-retarded. And it makes the song - even when it switches to rappers Slim Thug and Paul Wall - sound even more repititious than its four-bar beat already renders it.
But, and this may be more to the credit of the trace amounts of marijuana I just smoked, the whole thing is almost mesmerizing for a minute or two. Before it all just sounds like some kind of outtake from Prince's "Bob George," the talked-out, deep-evil-voice-processed track off the Black Album.
The video? Maybe it's been, you know, chopped and screwed out of its original glory, but it's just your standard collection of clips of dancing girls; shots of the DJ, face screwed up in conversation; pimped-out cars rolling down the street, some of them featuring neon-light writing on the interior of the trunk - not part of your standard factory options package but well worth the additional cost. And don't forget the posse of G-thugs standing in the street with t-shirts that read "Property of Mike Jones."
And, I mean, I know it's great to get your name out there and all, but do you really want a video full of black men with shirts that say they're owned by somebody named Mike Jones? It's been 140 years, yeah, but take it from me and my existing police record - slavery's still kind of a touchy issue amongst the urban community.
One more question - who starts out in the hip-hop industry looking to pick a unique MC name that sounds badass and that everyone will remember and then settles on Mike Jones? I don't care if it's his real name or not, he really should have sat down and done a little brainstorming.
NOTE: This review written March 8, 2005
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