Juelz Santana - What The Game's Been Missing

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Juelz Santana is definitely not a MC to be underestimated; then again Santana is not one to be overestimated either. Hate it or love it the young Diplomat does what he does and he does it well - his latest release What The Game's Been Missing is no exception to the fact. Filled with sex, drugs and violence, Santana's latest effort is obviously not for everybody, but there is a huge demographic that love his street orientated brand of hip hop. His simplistic concepts and unoriginal material leave nothing to the imagination, but on the other hand everything he laces is so damn hot!

Santana is like that class clown who is extremely entertaining but after hearing too much of him he gets annoying and you wish he would just stop filling your ears with his obnoxious dribble. Despite his obvious shortcomings, Santana does succeed in putting together a rather tight album that you can easily listen to all the way through. Full of catchy hooks, banging beats and some of the best ghetto anthems that you will ever hear What The Game's Been Missing is a very entertaining album.

At times the Dipset representative does try to prove that he has at least some trace of wisdom with tracks like Changes, Daddy and Gone - god bless the kid for trying. The deepest quotable on his album would have to be the outro for Gone where Juelz advises "A lot of people don't appreciate life until they gone. I mean alotta situations can be avoided. You just gotta avoid em ya dig?" Yep he sure is a thinker, which is a large part of his entertainment value. All in all this is not the album you want to analyse in search of the underlying meaning. This is in fact the album you want to pump when you have a few of your homies/homegirls around at your joint drinking, wilding out, running amok and getting absolutely stupid.

To summarise, What The Game's Been Missing is 100% gangsta. Which is not exactly what the games been missing, but I guarantee that despite its massive entertainment value it is what a lot of Australian stereos will be missing. Oh well... their loss.