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How does this Face stack up? Good, somewhere between the poorly recieved My Homies and Face masterpieces like the Diary and The World is Yours. Don't ask me how that got past the censors.Įnough about the cd cover. And the cd comes with a mock foil-wrap like the ones Face sold in the early eighties before he started rapping. The packaging was ambitious, so ambitious that the title Fix can't even be found on the cover. Anyone who's looking for Reynolds (read: plastic rap) can seek elsewhere. Scarface is real rap, not HIP-HOP, I said RAP. FINALLY, someone gets it: you don't need to have a long album to get your point across. But enough hating, this album is great, and it's even 47 minutes long. And every time they say, "Guess who's bizzack," I always wanna say, "They were gone? Where did they go?", "And why does this song sound like it was left off Jay-Z's Blueprint album?".
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Only ONE flaw to find on here: though I like "Guess Who's Back" (with Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel) as a single, it sounds a little out of place on this album full of Down South flava (Jay-Z even starts off the track by saying, "Welcome to New York City"). Both rappers give introspective tales, and while most people don't like the long chorus in between the two verses, I actually think that it's good to hear a song that defies the usual "16 bars-chorus-16-bars-chorus-16 bars-chorus-fade out" formula. And while I loved the Nas/'Face 1999 collabo "Favor for a Favor", "In Between Us" blows that track out the water. The other guest star contributions are also stellar: check out "I Ain't the One" with W.C. On the latter, 'Face goes back to his low-key, "I Seen a Man Die"-esque voice, which is classic in its own way. Though I was skeptical to hear Scarface with The Neptunes and Faith Evans on "Someday", that track actually works, as does "What Can I Do" with Kelly Price. And while most "back-in-the-day" raps are played-out now, Scarface wins by telling original tales of how it used to be.
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Hearing that song (and seeing the video) reminds me of 1994 rap, where there's just a gangsta beat and a gangsta rhyme, minus any pimping, jiggy dancing and popping Mo'. The song that you've all heard already, "On My Block" (which uses a slightly chopped-up, sped-up sample of Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack's "Be Real Black for Me"), sounds just as good now as it did the other million times I played it. On the latter, the music is just plain funky, and speaking of production, the diverse production from everyone from Kanye West and T-Mixx works in his favor more on this album than on Last of a Dying Breed. Scarface still brings those hood tales to us like on "In Cold Blood" and "Keep Me Down". While his last albums (The Untouchable, "My Homies" compilation, Last of a Dying Breed) each had a few hot joints on them, this album never runs out of gems. And I'm glad I did, because The Fix is his best solo album since The Diary. That's why fans like myself have supported him, even on his okay days. With his voice, social commentary, and wicked on-and-off again flow, you can feel him AND believe him, unlike most icy, studio gangsta rappers today. What's so admirable about Scarface is that when he raps, he never tries to impress anybody.