Taste of Chocolate
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What can I say? The man loves to spell. He
also loves to take his shirt off and brag about what a great
lover he is. "Let me lick you from head to toe?" No
thanks, dude. Sure, the guy has a good voice, and as was
the style in 1990, you can actually understand what he's saying,
but the hooks that came about a little later in the game are
lacking from song to song. On songs like "It's Hard Being
the Kane," it's certainly more about showing the fact he
can flow and throw a bunch of words together than it is
about writing a decent song. Then he gets political on "Who
Am I," talking about the destruction of black people, and
urban radio playing Young MC and
Paula Abdul (who is actually of Syrian/Canadian descent
and not African American) instead of his "hard core"
rhymes. I hate that Barry White talkin' shit too, so I
always skip over his lame track. Most rap just doesn't age well--and
this is no exception. You hear samples throughout the album
that you swear have been used by every album between 1988 and
1994. The one saving grace, "Mr. Pitiful," brings
it up a level and "Put Your Weight On It" uses that
Billy Squier drum beat that both Dizzee Rascal and Jay-Z think
is the shiznit up in 2004. It's obvious that Mr. Kane thinks
very highly of himself (like we'd want to taste his chocolate),
but one too many bragging, talky tracks like "Big Daddy
vs. Dolemite" ruins what could have been an otherwise decent
old school jam. |
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