Das sehen in Bezug auf Eric Third und Black Don einige aber anders:
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16 years after his first appearance on the Daily Operation album by Gangstarr and some Group Home albums it's finally Gangstarr Foundation's Lil' Dap time to shine by himself.
The first time and perhaps only time people have heard Lil' Dap was on those occasion he took the mic from Guru on the Gangstarr albums. He was anything but special and was easy to tolerate for a few bars. This time around it's all Dap though and if you can stomach him for an entire album, you are a special person. It's not that he is a horrible MC or something (though he is far from being a good one), he just has very little going for him. Lyrically he was very little things of interest to say and his flow is very basic, basicly he just sounds like a cheap version of Guru, but he is not nearly as creative (hate Guru all you want, but he had some moments of real genius). The real trouble comes with his voice though, it's just so damn hard to listen too him for an entire album. It was a breath of fresh air when the real Guru got on the mic. Believe it or not, but Dap wasn't even the worst MC on the album. Save that honour for Black Don and Eric Third, the latter trying to sound like Ol' Dirty Bastard.
Lil' Dap himself leads the prodoction team for his own album. I don't even think I knew he was active on the boards as well. He does half the cuts. However, just like the the mic performance, it isn't really broken, but it isn't exciting either. There are a few dope cuts, especially when Large Professor gets on the boards for 'In My Life Time' and when Grudge gets on 'Long Way From BK'. Both are some smooth laid back joints. Lil' Dap himself shows he can make a dope joint on the Group Home cut called 'Real Group Home' and 'One Hand Watches The Next'. However most of the time the production sounds a little bit like a DJ Premier knock off. Which isn't really suprising of course, but it should have left me thinking Primo did some actual stuff on this. I was disappointed with the Alchemist cut 'Get It'. He is really hit or miss for me lately. He has me either flipping my wig (like on Evidence's The Weatherman LP) or I just don't care at all (like this shit of what he did with Prodigy). The DJ Skizz produced 'Security Deposit' is also a strong beat, especially those scratched vocal samples in the hook are dope and on some real east coast shit, but the MC's do nothing to complement the beat.
The album has a couple of choice tracks which are nice, but most of it just isn't really good (or bad for that matter). Aside from a nice title I.A.Dap has not much going for it. If you think Lil' Dap is a great MC you will love this joint, but I doubt those people excist.
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) objektiveren Standpunkt aus nicht ganz nachvollziehen. Klar, es sind nicht viele neue Tracks dabei (sprich das Track-Recycling hätte er sich sparen sollen) und das Rad wird nicht neu erfunden (wer macht das schon?), aber das was geboten wird, finde ich - auch im vergleich zu dem was aktuell aus der NY-Ecke kommt - absolut gelungene Kost die sicherlich tief in den 90ern verwurzelt ist und keinen Schritt voran gekommen ist, aber muss das auch unbedingt sein? Wenn das Album vor 10 Jahren gekommen wäre, hätte es sicherlich heute einen höheren Stellenwert, aber das heißt doch nicht dass die Scheibe heutzutage nicht mehr wert ist, einige der Alben aus der Zeit werden doch heute nach wie vor landaus landein gefeiert. Mir sagen die Beats zu, Lil Dap gefällt mir nach wie vor mit seiner raumgreifenden Stimme, mehr brauche ich nicht um meinen Spaß mit dem Album zu haben. Allerdings hätte Lil Dap besser den Track "Baby Momma" weggelassen, wie Black Don und Eric Third (hat der noch mehr draußen?) Ihm da die Butter vom Brot nehmen ist ja schon nicht mehr feierlich. Und den etwas zu chilligen und in ähnllicher Form schon mehrfach gehörten Extra P Beat hätte er auch weglassen sollen, passt m.E. nicht zu seiner kantigen Stimme. Alles in allem sicherlich nicht der allergrößte Wurf, aber ich halte es da wie Puddah, ein gutes Album mit (in meinen Augen verzeihbaren) Schönheitsfehlern...