Cam'Ron - Killa Season
Submitted by Hazard on Thu, 2006-12-07 05:50. Keywords:
Album Reviewed by Hazard
| Subsequent to flooding the market with more mixtapes than some people have albums; getting shot at and after a prominent split with Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella Records, the Dipset general, Cam'Ron, returns with Killa Season, the follow-up to 2004's Purple Haze. Cam'Ron definitely has one of the most unique flows in hip-hop and he does have some entertaining lyrics. Despite its annoying beat, check out White Girls where he uses a girl as a metaphor to talk about drugs. The track contains some of the humour and uniqueness that initially drew him to listeners.
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Love My Life, featuring the vocal talents of Nicole Wray, shows some rare introspection over a simple piano loop, as Cam laments over his family and his late Children Of The Corn comrade Bloodshed (born Derick Armstead). Also peep Leave You Alone for that distinct style and flow. Killa Season possesses some very powerful beats. A good example is the cinematic War, with its booming strings and horns. The track features Hell Rell, who sounds awfully similar to the other Dipset members.
Do Ya Thing (Remix) has a very rich, soulful sound, varying from the other tracks - which is a good thing. However, for all the rare introspection and entertainment, there are some tracks and lyrics that leave a lot to be desired. For example, listen to the chorus of We Make Change, featuring Juelz Santana, which sounds like a children's nursery rhyme, "We make change-ay, we slang yay, it's sounds like meringue, like ay-ay-ay-ay." I understand the slanging yay part, but what the hell does the rest of that mean. Touch It, with Lil' Wayne, is another juvenile-sounding track with stupid sex boasts like, "I got something for your face, f***k pro-active", and also what on earth does "pucker-rama" mean. Did we really need I.B.S., a track about Irritable Bowell Syndrome, honestly, is it meant to be funny. It makes you wonder why you are hearing such childish musings from a 30-year-old man.
If you are going to handle a subject matter that better artists have already touched, you can at least show some intelligence and some skill. But the weak disses on the Jay-Z-baiting You Gotta Love It just make you shrug your shoulders and wonder why Jigga would even bother to respond to it. First of all I think it's funny that a man that tried to popularise the wearing of pink and purple clothing can question somebody on wearing jeans and sandals. I'm sure that Jay is going back to the drawing-board, after hearing the genius lyrics about changing the name of Roc-A-Wear to Cock-A-Wear and the lyrics about " … should have kissed you on the cheek, you a pretty hoe". The boasts about Jay stealing the Roc-A-Fella empire and Kanye West from Dame Dash are also questionable.
This is definitely not making any leaps and bounds and it won't do anything to make people become Dipset fans. This one is strictly for the die-hard Cam'Ron fans, for the rest of us though, Killa Season, despite some entertaining moments, is more filler than killa.
Warner Music/Asylum Records
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