The few guest rappers on Brothers From Another (Daz, Memphis Bleek, Pooda Brown) fit the Gunners' personality vacuum. On Young Gunz' 2004 debut Tough Luv, the duo was constantly overshadowed by infinitely more talented guests like Jay-Z and Beanie Sigel. 2", featuring one of Kanye's unbearable loverman verses and a hook with John Legend doing his best to impersonate the world's most generic lounge singer. The one glaring exception is the unbelievably obnoxious Kanye West pianos-and-string ballad "Grown Man Pt. On his two tracks, for instance, Swizz Beats forgoes hype-man yelling and Jay-Z vocal samples for amazing swirling pianos on "Beef" and canned electro synths on lead single "Set It Off". The tracks that Hamilton didn't produce have the same lustrous throb.
On the thug love ballad "Don't Keep Me Waiting" guests 112 coo like a prepubescent New Edition while Duran Duran cheese guitars and a popping slap bass swoop trough the track. "It's the Life" has a spare, empty shuffle and a ghostly, sustained synth wash. "Don't Stop (YG Party)" supports a rippling marimba loop with eerie, rolling bass tones. Hamilton knows his way around a drum machine, and his tracks for Brothers From Another have a slick, chilly electro pulse, like the skeletal booming drum machines of mid-80s Marley Marl with the rough edges polished off and replaced them with a glossy futuristic sheen. The album belongs instead to producer Chad "Wes" Hamilton, who turns in seven of the album's 12 tracks. They sound exactly the same rapping about guns as they do about girls, and neither one ever says anything remotely quotable.Īnd so Brothers From Another doesn't really belong to either Chris or Neef. (Chris sounds slightly more gruff Neef is slightly more nimble.) Their voices don't carry a hint of emotion or personality. Both members have essentially the same flow: A prim, conversational mumble that usually turns sing-songy on the hooks. On a terrible beat, they'll sound terrible. On a great beat, the duo of Chris and Neef will sound great. Those less enthusiastic about the two Roc representatives won't hear much to change their minds. Young Gunz Roc-A-Fella Roc-A-Fella (label) Hip Hop (CD, LP) We realize that there are many different interpretations of the standard grades used for pre-owned vinyl record albums & CD, so we thought wed offer you the ones that we are working with, so you have an idea what we mean when we give the grade for a non-new item on our pages. Things turn grim for the remainder of the disc, including somber journeys into personal hardships and loss on "What We Gotta Do" and "It's The Life" - with bits of real talk like "Everybody name brand, me I was same pants/ Same top, eating hot dogs out the same pot." Neither an exact continuation of the Gunz previous work nor very much removed from it, Brothers From Another will please the Young Gunz faithful. 2." Besides lending a verse, West produces a thick blend of piano, rapid snares, and muffled tones for a backdrop that is distinctly Kanye. After a couple of clunkers in the form of the annoyingly composed "YG Party" and "Same Different Day," business picks up with Kanye West and John Legend on the soul-tinged "Grown Man, pt.
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The upbeat vibe is strengthened by the mellow vocals of 112 over breezy bells, plus a sample from the late Luther Vandross. The album's feel-good, follow up single "Don't Keep Me Waiting" proves much more engaging than "Set It Off," the first track put into radio rotation. Trying again to revisit the success of their 2003 hit single "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", the Young Gunz are here for the summer with a second full-length - boasting some of the same old, same old along with a hint of maturation from the Philly duo.
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