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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hardcore hip hop has elevated to a new plateau, 13 Oct 2000
By A Customer
MOP's new album "Warriorz" is a blueprint for a near perfect hardcore hip hop album. Of course it couldn't be perfect because what would they do next, but I don't feel MOP want to be associated with the word 'perfection'. Lets get it straight from the start, this album is raw, angry and powerful. Throughout their previous albums MOP have developed and grew in vocal strength sounding larger than life on their latest effort. From the opening to the closing track the album kicks along at a pace that will have you head nodding the entire duration. Beats come courtesy of Primo, DR Period, Lazy Laze and MOP themselves and each song is a street anthem that finally gives the hardcore heads something to chew on and digest. From Primo's up tempo 'Follow Instructions' to the albums strongest moment, 'Cold As Ice', this is solid hip hop that doesn't fail on any point. MOP have remained fairly under-rated in the past and if 'Warriorz' doesn't blow them up then the hip hop world has committed an unforgivable sin. Support real hardcore! 'Ante Up'.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Some of the best from some of the best..., 4 Nov 2000
By A Customer
I won't lie, I'm a huge MOP fan, and was waiting for this album with thickly baited breath. Indeed, it took many trips down the road in precarious conditions, to surrounding towns and every shop I could find, until I got hold of this album...which happened incidently when it was raining hard and I was soaked to the bone. But after all the waiting, all the horrors I had to endure, was the album worth it? Well, on the way back from the shop on that rainy day, drenched like you wouldn't believe, my friend said 'Imagine if this album, after all we've been through, is really crap. If they've just sold out, gone R&B or pop.' I said 'No, even if they had done MOP would pull through...' And this is possibly their best album yet. It has the professional production, far surpassing Firing Squad, and the rugged hardcoremanship we'd expect from them, pushing First Family 4 Life bank into the past. The only album that can compare is the original, To The Death, and the variety of Warriorz is enough to beat even that away. The actual album has a variety from the featured R&B stylings of Project G&B with an MOP to edge, to the over-jazz of Nig-gotiate and the absolutely immortal Ante Up that will move you like no other track- physically. Teflon plays his part like the bonofied backhand man that he's always been, while Lord Have Mercy performs another great feature and the sampled Cold as Ice shows through their old-skool rootz. It's just...a brilliant album...if you're a fan and you don't have it then you should be thumping yourself with a metal shoehorn for being so foolish, and if you're not a fan then this is the album to start on, because it has everything you could want.
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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent album. Buy it now., 14 Jun 2001
By A Customer
This album has it all: focus, slick production, slamming beats and razor-sharp lyrics and vocals. I would recommend it to anyone who likes rap in general, though particularly gangsta, although some might find it a little heavy for their taste. The Pharcyde, it ain't.
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