B-Real - Smoke-N-Mirrors
This is a pretty uneven affair. Only traxx u should really be checking for:
Smoke-N-Mirrors
Gangsta Music
---Best track on the album. This Soopafly-produced joint knocks & features a good grown man gangsta verse with B-Real's trademark tight-chested flow about coming from the streets and making decisions and real-world consequences, his motivations to leave the streets & his inability to completely leave them behind, repping for folks who feel like they have no other choice "Stuck in this poverty there's gotta be another way out of it / found it in the music in spite of the people who doubted it / couldn't pull away so easy, separation is ugly / how could i pull away, just knowin that the streets still love me / but the love can be so deadly, we ain't talkin romance / sometimes the streets they need a sacrifice, we takin' a chance / it doesn't matter where you're livin, every ghetto the same / the only thing that's different all these people's faces and names / if i pray to god to give me strength to battle the devil / maybe id hit another level so i could hoist up my metal (medal?)"
Don't Ya Dare Laugh
---I don't know what to say about this. I shouldnt like it but what the fuck. Xzibit kills it too. Young De is generic as fukk though, whats up with that?
Everything You Want
Psycho Realm Revolution
Fire
---Real single material with this joint, trading verses with Damian Marley about smoking pot which really what else can u ask for from B-Real
10 steps behind
Stackn Paper
1 Life
The last tracks on the album are kinda ehhhh, like listening to B-Real I want to like this shit but ... its so not-quite-good-enough. Like, a posse cut with Too $hort & Kurupt should feel bigger than "When We're Fucking." Real underwhelming.
Really I just wanted an excuse to post this classic '01 Cypress Hill single:
Smoke-N-Mirrors
Gangsta Music
---Best track on the album. This Soopafly-produced joint knocks & features a good grown man gangsta verse with B-Real's trademark tight-chested flow about coming from the streets and making decisions and real-world consequences, his motivations to leave the streets & his inability to completely leave them behind, repping for folks who feel like they have no other choice "Stuck in this poverty there's gotta be another way out of it / found it in the music in spite of the people who doubted it / couldn't pull away so easy, separation is ugly / how could i pull away, just knowin that the streets still love me / but the love can be so deadly, we ain't talkin romance / sometimes the streets they need a sacrifice, we takin' a chance / it doesn't matter where you're livin, every ghetto the same / the only thing that's different all these people's faces and names / if i pray to god to give me strength to battle the devil / maybe id hit another level so i could hoist up my metal (medal?)"
Don't Ya Dare Laugh
---I don't know what to say about this. I shouldnt like it but what the fuck. Xzibit kills it too. Young De is generic as fukk though, whats up with that?
Everything You Want
Psycho Realm Revolution
Fire
---Real single material with this joint, trading verses with Damian Marley about smoking pot which really what else can u ask for from B-Real
10 steps behind
Stackn Paper
1 Life
The last tracks on the album are kinda ehhhh, like listening to B-Real I want to like this shit but ... its so not-quite-good-enough. Like, a posse cut with Too $hort & Kurupt should feel bigger than "When We're Fucking." Real underwhelming.
Really I just wanted an excuse to post this classic '01 Cypress Hill single:
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