Big Boi Presents Got Purp – Vol 2
Submitted by Blaise on Thu, 2006-12-07 05:20. Keywords:
Album Reviewed by Blaise
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I may be the wrong person to judge this album. I have to admit from the outset, I am no fan of the ‘Dirty South’ craze that has hit the States. However, I have been an Outkast fan from way back. I have always respected them because they went against the grain. Big Boi Presents Got Purp Vol. 2 sees one half of Outkast, Big Boi, showcasing a poor selection of tracks that do nothing to distinguish themselves from the myriad of Southern drawling songs flooding the market. |
The signs were perhaps already there to see, when Outkast released two separate albums, together, in Speakerboxx and The Love Below. Andre 3000’s Love Below was a genre bending, thoroughly invigorating and entertaining album, pushing the limits of Southern Hip-Hop and music in general. Big Boi’s Speakerboxx felt like a poorer cousin, as it trotted out run-of-the-mill bangin’ Hip-Hop tracks one after the other. With his new release Big Boi returns to the same formula as he presents a wide range of Southern talent cursing and sweating through twenty-three arduous tracks.
Kryptonite featuring Blackowned, C-Bone & Killer Mike is an extremely un-inspired track that simply repeats the same old ‘gangsta’ clichés. Body Rock featuring the Purple Ribbon All-Stars is another track that features very few redeeming features, and paints a picture of a studio full of ‘gangsta’ dudes smoking the herb, and rowdy as hell. Other tracks such as Shit Ya Drawers and Mayonnaise South give you a fair idea of where this album is going. A shining light is the wonderfully funky My Chrome featuring Killer Mike, but it is a needle in a muddy haystack.
One desperately hopes that Big Boi doesn’t continue to waste his incredible talent on projects such as this. It just feels so old, dated, I don’t know, it just don’t sound good!
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