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Title: Cheer Up, Slug
Review: How many albums of whiny songs about girls can a "rapper" put out?The beats are not necessarily bad, but only by "backpacker" standards. If you listen to genuine hip-hop and not the suburban version of it, you will likely find the production to be sub-par.Slug himself sounds like he doesn't even want to be rapping half the time. I don't know if that's part of his "I'm a lonely soul" appeal, but it sure sounds bad. It is clear that this album is meant to appeal to angsty suburban teenagers and no other demographic.I'm not trying to write a nasty review here, and I must say that "OverCast" was actually a good Hip-Hop album. But Slug and the whole rhymesayers crew are just killing the idea of underground hip-hop by stripping it of it's hip-hop elements. Hip-Hop is not the type of music where whining and complaining to a psuedo-creative beat works.
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