“Ack Like You Know…” – Review Of Flo Rida’s Mail On Sunday
ALBUM REVIEWS By TC on March 29, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Unless you practice the ways of the Amish, you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who’s avoided the club fervor caused by newcomer’s Flo Rida’s “Low” which featured yet another T-Pain choral response. The single albeit a tad bit formulaic, rose to the top of the Billboard Charts and raised suspicions that the torch had been passed to him as Rap’s go-to hitmaker. Falling in as the latest rapper with a hot single, Flo Rida (pronounced “Flow-Rider”) aims to make sure he stays on top of his peers. Surprising enough, his major label debut Mail On Sunday is filled to the brim with irresistible pop that could garner the same success that helped make Nelly and Yung Joc household names.
For a rookie, Flo Rida shows no signs of aphonia with plenty of ambitious material geared towards the dance floor. As a hitmaker, songs like Timbaland’s futuristic thrill-ride on “Elevator” and the rowdy “Don’t Know How To Act” come as no surprise with their precise execution, but Flo Rida manages to show he can hold his own on harder material such as the blistering “Ack Like You Know.” Over pulsating sirens and bass lines with a crescendo of their own, Flo manages to drop some nimble lines like “Flo Rida franchise em’ like the pizza man/all about cheese/full of dough/let me grease ya hands…”
Sporting an unique sing-songy delivery that rides the tracks as well as a candy-painted Chevy with a cruise control, Flo Rida’s flow (hence the name) is his biggest ally. On his duet with Trey Songz, the mildly lewd “Freaky Deeky,” there’s enough variation in his vocals to make an otherwise cliché sex tale acceptable. Same goes for the ode-to-flossin’ “Priceless,” which features Birdman. The brawny MC uses his capable mic skills to bear the tracks massive rumble and easily breeze past his guest’s lukewarm performance.
Mail On Sunday is far from perfect however, as the package is a little soggy in the midsection. As a ringtone dealer, Flo gets the job done, but when he tries to exercise his witty side, the album forms into a big ball of cheese. There’s the syrupy metaphor-for-women “Ms. Hangover” where Flo croons: “She had Hennessy hips/and Belve eyes/Grey Goose on her lips/and cognac thighs…” and Roger Troutman is somehow resurrected for some digital luv on “Me & U.” And he’ll really get the dogs howling on the pitiful “Still Missin” which features some serious boo-hooing with a chorus that reads “My lawnmower home but my hoe still missin’/my rake in the shed but my hoe still missin’…” Flo should make sure he stays in the club until his creative juices have fermented because whining on wax doesn’t get you any respect, word to Keith Sweat.
After the last call is sounded and all the confetti has fallen from sky, Mail On Sunday still leaves room for improvement conceptually and lyrically, but all factors considered, this is the type of product that’s destined to move units – physically and digitally. With joints like his collabo with the Beluga Heights family “Low” at his disposal, Flo Rida has set himself up in the position to be Pop music’s next token rapper. And when you’re talking career moves, there couldn’t be a more perfect situation.
Flo-Rida – Mail On Sunday (Bonus Tracks)
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Yea I thought album wasn’t crazy or anything but for what he was trying to do (be commerical) thought it wasn’t bad.
He does have a terrible MC handle though. Can we at least agree on that?
Oh yea…
TC=Picasso of the review
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Nike and Phoenix Suns guard/environmental obsessive Steve Nash have come up with a new basketball shoe made from manufacturing waste. Ingeniously, the Nike Trash Talk ($100; April 2008) features an upper that’s made of leather and synthetic leather pieces collected from the factory floor. In addition, the mid-sole uses factory scrap foam, and the outsole uses less toxic rubber and incorporates Nike Grind material from outsole manufacturing waste.
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KRS-One – Adventures in Emceein [2008][Retail][Explicit]
1. Intro F. Rakim
2. Todays Topics F. Chuck D
3. Our Soldiers F. Cx
4. Money F. MC Lyte
5. We Dem Teachas F. Keith Stewart
6. Better & Better F. Pee-Doe
7. The Way Its Goin Down
8. The Teacha Returns
9. The Real Hiphop F. Nas
10. Watch This! F. S-Five
11. Whats Your Plan?
12. All Right F. Just Blaze
13. Dont Get So High (Dancehall Mix)
14. I Got You
15. All My Love F. Carlet Boseman
16. Over 30 (Remix)
17. Getaway
18. Dont Give It Up F. S-Five
19. Gro—Oh!(Hiphop Nation) F. S-Five
20. Its All Love F. Non-Stop
21. Wachanoabout F. Vince Flores On Guitar
http://rapidshare.com/files/103362597/K1.AiE.rar
The more I looked @ his name, the more it sucked but it’s damn sure easy to remember.
Boogie – those shoes = no go. at least not in that colorway. I fuck w/wht/org both those didn’t move me @ all. They look like Nash though b/c I know he’s a fan of low-cut models.
bomber or anybody have the Krs-One “Life” album.
please and thx in ad. peace yall.
can somebody get me links to emanon albums
Now!
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http://streethopmagazine.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/krs-one-prepares-to-release-maximum-strength-on-koch-records/ …
and when a new album!
Gotty that wouldn’t be in ya summer shoe collection
Chris I think u mean
Eamon
NO @Boogie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanon
Emanon!!! a duo
but Eamon is agood rapper?
TC = the Shakespeare of the review
Picasso is a little two-sided, PM. Like Picassos are really special, but also really fucked up. Hmmm… that’s deep though… let me think on that…
Is this gonna be the new way for Hip Hop to go?
Musicians take social networking into their own hands
By Jennifer Netherby
50 Cent has more than 1 million friends on MySpace, but if the rapper ever decides to leave the social network, he’ll be leaving behind those friends, too. So like a growing number of artists, he’s started his own social networking site.
On Thisis50.com, fans can create profiles and friend lists just like on MySpace, but 50 Cent has direct access to the site’s users and their e-mail addresses.
More and more acts, from Kylie Minogue to Ludacris to the Pussycat Dolls, are launching their own social networks, which are becoming a sort of next-generation version of artist Web sites.
The social networking component gives fans a reason to hang out on a site and visit more often than they would a standard Web site. And artists can sell advertisements on their sites and offer downloads and merchandise for sale — options they don’t have on MySpace or Facebook. Plus, they own the content and data on how fans use their site, which they don’t get on other social networks.
“The thing that separates Thisis50 from MySpace is we control the e-mail database,” says Chris “Broadway” Romero, director for new media at G-Unit Records, which handles Thisis50. “We can e-mail members if we want to.”
Thisis50 isn’t meant to be a fan club, but rather a platform for 50 Cent to showcase his music and music he likes, and comment on news and user profile pages. Ludacris’ WeMix.com, on the other hand, is more of a hub for aspiring artists to upload their music.
The artist networks aren’t meant to replace MySpace or Facebook, which tend to attract a broader audience and more users.
“(Artists) think about MySpace and Facebook as funnels for their own social networks,” says Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning, a company that provides social networking tools for Thisis50, Sara Bareilles and others. “They take and use services where they don’t know the users, don’t have access and don’t have full control, and funnel those fans to something they do control.”
TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION
The key to getting users coming back to the sites is artist involvement, either through blogs or comments on user pages or exclusive footage and other content.
“The biggest thing we push to artists is, ‘Embrace the site,”‘ says Evan Rifkin, CEO of Flux.com, a social networking platform partly owned by MTV.
It’s relatively inexpensive to create a social network if artists use one of the growing number of companies that provide the tools and hosting. For instance, Ning charges $34 per month for a site and hosting. And Flux works with artists and labels on a revenue-sharing basis. Artists can set up their main site for free and pay a percentage of revenue from advertisements and sales on additional pages.
Artists also tend to pay for labor to run the sites. But if fans get involved and add things to the site to share with others, it can reduce the need for staff to constantly provide new content, Romero says.
In addition, many artists are simply turning their main Web site into a social network. Suretone Records director of new media Ashley Jex says the label is working with Flux to incorporate social networks into all its artists’ sites to cater to the hardcore fans and keep them clicking around.
With Flux, which also has deals with Universal Music Group and Virgin, users create one profile and with one click they can join the network of any artist using it, rather than having to create new profiles for each.
Ice Cube and DJ Pooh added a twist earlier in March, launching UVNTV, a broadband TV and social networking site where artists and brands can create their own channel and subscribers can create profiles and chat with one another. Artists get detailed information on their users and can sell advertisements, merchandise, downloads or even subscriptions to their channel. They also own and control the content.
“You know the demographic of anybody watching your content,” DJ Pooh says. “You know what they watched and clicked on.” The service is in beta and free to artists and is expected to formally launch in January 2009. So far, Snoop Dogg has a channel there, as does Ice Cube and such brands as RockStar Games and Source.
Even more important: Fans seem to be buying directly from the sites. On Minogue’s KylieKonnect, launched in fall 2007 through U.K.-based New Visions Mobile, nearly 25 percent of users have made a ringtone, download or merchandise purchase, company director Julia McNally says
KRS-One “Life”
http://www.mediafire.com/?9v4kzxqcqmy
I’m gonna come back to that.
But the immediate answer is 100% yes…for some artists, it’s the route or at least a route that they’ll be using.
Bomber you’re greumsy! thank homey for da lunk!
peace
@ Turk
I could see that idea catching on. I kinda envision it being a fan club where the bucknuttiest of an artists’ fans go to collectively get their stan rocks off, and the artist occasionally stopping thru to bless their presence.
Look yall I dont mind artists “diversifying”…but at some point I wonder if the music is gonna be compromised.
Well given what some folks are doing now, that answer is HELL YEAH!!!!!
Yo, I think Greums gets the award for illest Gravatar. That shit is fresh.
U KNOW DOUG I KNOW
GREUMS IS TRUTH, TSS IS MAJOR
THX AND PEACE HOMEY
Flo-Rida is PERFECT for Florida. He allows d-boys to dance without looking gay and everybody in FLA dances. I can already hear how the summer is going to go… shoot me.
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