Rating: 2/10

Track Amount: 20

Running Time: 1 hour and 12 minutes

Genre: Hip Hop, Crunk

Personnel: Lil Jon (vocals) and guests (as listed in the songs below)

Producer: Andre Harris, Benny Blanco, Catalyst, Dave Moreaux, Detail, DJ Chuckie, DJ Montay, David Guetta, Dr Luke, Drumma Boy, Kassiano, K.E. on the Track, Kool Kojak, LMFAO, R. City, RedOne, Shawty Redd, Silvio Ecomo, Steve Aoki, Swizz Beatz, Vidal Davis, Whole Wheat Bread

Record Label: BME/Universal Republic Records

Recording Location: Various

Art Direction: N/A

Best Tracks: Shots

Quick Verdict: One of the worst albums in recent history ever made

This is one of the more musically ridiculous releases out there, in terms of musical appeal. It took five years for this entire album to be completed, as Lil Jon shifted labels and took what seemed like forever to finish off this album. This is an album with a huge slew of guest stars and pioneered the postmodern trend of having multiple guest appearances on an album. Numerous singles were released prior to this album being completed, all the same. The album cover also has the Japanese worded album title on it as well. Upon release, this album received mixed reviews but nonetheless charted in the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album chart. It further pioneered the Hip Hop subgenre of Crunk as well. Let’s go back in time to 2010 and listen to this album review, and we shall hear if it is any good.

1. Crunk Rock – Intro sets the scene with some interesting electronic sounds and downpitched vocals of Lil Jon profanely swearing and sounding interesting and adventurous. This also samples some crowd dialogue between Lil Jon and his fans. Okay.

2. Throw It Up Part 2 (Remix) features Pastor Troy and Wacka Flocka Flame. It launches into action with some rather moody and dark melodies, and launches into a weird and off-sounding tune that isn’t the best. This music has very limited appeal, especially in hindsight. It is a good listen if you are intoxicated or high out of your brains, but in realistic sobriety, this is not good. Regardless, this music is appealing in its own way to a specific audience. This album is peppered with loads of expletives and 21st-century styled sounds throughout. If you love Hip Hop or Rap, you may enjoy this, but even so, this is difficult to appreciate regardless. This tune would have worked out better if it were much less serious as such. Even so, it is a snapshot of some of what was popular back in 2010. The screamed vocals by Lil Jon and admittedly disgusting imagery aren’t the best overall. A weird and odd music listen throughout. This tune would have been better if it were shorter as well. Weird and not that wonderful.

3. Fall Out features Travis Porter. It is more or less a continuation of the previous tune musically, with almost exactly the same melodies. This is awful as well. This album is a recurring theme of the fact that most music in the Pop charts is genuinely awful today. Even so, there is a slightly humorous fashion to it all, especially with Lil Jon’s screamed and profane lyricism. Sure, if you want to feel like you are totally dumbed down and like trash for music, this is perfect for you. With lyrics about money and sex, this is definitely not the sort of tune that one can appreciate hearing. The sounds and performances throughout are very lazy-sounding, and overall, this is not really good at all. This is a compilation of awful tunes, with some occasionally humorous lyrics throughout. Not recommended, but then again, you probably were expecting this if you heard this album.

4. G Walk features Soulja Boy. It begins with some tremendously hilarious musical loops that sound like Beethoven being butchered, and the two main rappers screaming and shouting over it all. This is not supposed to be taken seriously. At all. Which is the purpose of this album. Lil Jon and Soulja Boy take turns at orchestrating their rapping over this laughably bad music. There is very little that one can actually take seriously about this rubbish. Then again, that is the point. You should get a copy of this album, turn it up to full in your car and roll down the windows for maximum effect to disgust nearby drivers. This is proof that in the 21st century, USA-made music is mostly worth junking, in this album release at least. Terribly enjoyable. You won’t know whether to laugh or turn this garbage off. Nonetheless, Yoko Ono would be worse than this with her tuneless screaming.

5. On De Grind features Stephen Marley and Damian Marley. It is a pseudo-Reggae tune that makes little sense on this album. Again, this music is not the best overall. Despite the good intentions of the guests, this is not a worthwhile or memorable song to listen to. Lil Jon references the Slumdog Millionaire film, and this tune is an awkward fusion of Lil Jon’s trashiness and the Reggae of the Marleys. This is fairly awful in its own way and is very difficult to take at all seriously. All in all, unless you are blasted out on drugs and alcohol, this music will have very little appeal overall for you. It just sounds unpleasant to listen to, even with the Reggae lyrics throughout. References to Jesus and Rastafarianism do not save this tune from mediocrity. This music is certainly ordinary and has largely been forgotten from music history today for a very good reason. It just isn’t that good overall. It’s a poor tune indeed. It ends with prominent vocals.

6. What Is Crunk Rock? – Interlude is a recording of a phone call stating that Crunk Rock is an extension of a musical ideal, and a lifestyle, per se. It’s okay, but not perfect.

7. Killas features Ice Cube, The Game, Elephant Man and Whole Wheat Bread. It is a multi-guest featured and brutal tune with some awful electric guitars that have little to no appeal, no matter what sort of music fan you are, complete with drums that sound like they were ripped from the awful Metallica St. Anger (2003) album. This is not an inspired nor pleasant listen with threats of violence and other foolish raps throughout. In short, this is a pile of you-know-what. Absolutely beyond awful, and certainly not worth hearing. The guest appearances do not make this tune any better, either. This music is sort of catchy, but has no real inspiration behind it. With references to major celebrities and screamed vocals throughout, this is definitely awful. Even Ice Cube cannot save this tune from mediocrity, and he was definitely past his peak by the time of this recording. This is like swallowing your own vomit, difficult to take. A terrible song overall. Just pathetic.

8. Get In Get Out is a weird-sounding tune from the start. It has bad melodies and is a Lil Jon solo tune for once. This eventually slightly improves with thunderous drum sounds and launches into a weird piece of music that has a relative catchiness to it all. A really interesting but not necessarily good tune that has some out there sounds. Still, this is polishing a product that isn’t good in the first place. Overall, Lil Jon fails on this album, and this song is merely filler overall. This music is a real drag to get through. It is enough to put one off the postmodern Pop Music of today. The lyrics are downright awful as well, and this is the sort of music that the worst nightclubs of 2010 would play. Seriously. Terrible, skip ahead if you can. The repeated background melody is just annoying as well. So much for an album that took five years to finish. Fortunately, this is not recommended listening, so you can walk away from this right now. Terrible. The beats at the end are cool though.

9. Pop Dat Pu*$y features Blazed and is absolutely terrible from the start. In fact, this is one of the worst songs you will ever hear. Period. It is selfish, macho-male Rap Music sexism at its absolute, downright worst. The music and sounds are unforgivably bad. This album definitely gets worse as it goes along. There is absolutely nothing good about this song. If you hear this song, you will be totally aware of how truly ridiculously bad it is. Nobody with a mind or intellect will enjoy this tune at all. So many downright disgusting sexual references are in this tune. If you, as the listener, can sit through this tune, then you are truly a champion at sitting through absolutely awful music. Goodness knows what people were thinking when this tune was made. Lil Jon’s throaty singing is the only saving grace of this junk. The outro is absolutely stupid overall. This is exactly the sort of music that nobody this century should listen to. Terrible.

10. Outta Your Mind features LMFAO. It is a much better-sounding tune from the start, and has Lil Jon screaming nicely. That is, until the main section of the tune kicks in. This is the sort of music that is, if you need to hear the equivalent of projectile vomit in your ears. There are good moments in it, but it is so difficult to listen to and appreciate overall. Again, this tune is beyond bad. It mixes some 8 Bit styled sounds, and the chorus is okay, but again, this is not an overly impressive song to hear. LMFAO makes a terrible-sounding vocal appearance on this one, with RedFoo sounding bored and disinterested throughout. This is a shockingly low-quality song. It proves exactly why Lil Jon had to hop between labels to get it done. Who would rationally want to release this junk? Skip ahead quickly, or turn this nonsense off. Very awful. Nothing good should be said about this music.

11. Ride Da D features the Ying Yang Twins. Essentially, this is much more of the same, with some okay sounds and a slightly better tune with the most awful and terrible lyrics out there. If you want music to have sex with, then this is certainly not it. It is so bad and repetitive throughout that it falls apart upon listening. With lyrics that an eight-year-old could create, repetitive lyrics, and an unpleasant listen overall, this is disgusting music. Enough to give you a headache as well. This album is one of the worst listens imaginable. It fails on every count of music listening that you can ever hear. This is the sort of dumbed-down Rap based Music that makes no sense to listen to today. Unpleasant and unnecessary to listen to. Very, very bad.

12. Ms Chocolate features R. Kelly and Mario. Odd that a convicted paedophile and a video game character feature on this tune. It continues to sound awful throughout, in any case, and R. Kelly’s vocals are drenched in autotune. This music certainly is terrible, and sounds like the sound of the mind of a serial rapist. All in all, yet another failure of a song. This sounds a little pleasant in the chorus, but all in all, it is a poor take on the desires and sexual lust of a young African-American male who is a nymphomaniac. Fortunately, this one is relatively short and seems a lot less unpleasant than other tracks before it. If you have a gun, you might want to shoot your head listening to this junk. Another failure from this album.

13. Like A Stripper features Pleasure P and Shawty Putt, ironically named guests, given this tune’s name. It begins with some looped tribal drums and sounds hilariously bad. This would be easier to take in a situation where it is seen as a joke. Unfortunately, it is not. The music at hand is actually alright on this song, but still on an unbelievably bad album and therefore, tainted musically as such. Again, you may want to skip ahead, given the ordinary nature of this album. After hearing this stupid music, you will want to go and hear Classical Music instead. Quite simply, if this album had some popularity to it, then one can observe the beginning of the end of decent Pop Music in the 21st century. Lil Jon’s throaty vocals are somewhat amusing, but this tune carries no weight. Avoid like the plague.

14. Moist features Oobie. It begins with some rain sounds, slower beats and thunder sounds. This quickly launches into 1970s Pimp sounding music that is odd for this album. This sounds out of place on the album listening. It’s surprisingly a good listen, and makes a break from the macho-male dominance of the album to this point. Even so, this should have been put elsewhere rather than on this poor Rap wannabe album. The singing by the guest is smooth and fantastic. It just proves that there are surprises in music. Lil Jon destroys the second half of the track by screaming into the music, which is disappointing. No surprises there. Grab your copy of this album and toss it out of the window. Try early releases by The Chemical Brothers for something of a much better quality. Sadly, Lil Jon has about a two-second-long appeal musically. A good listen for the sort of ladies who are nymphomaniacs. Still, not every lady will like this tune. It’s barely passable. It ends with the intro sounds.

15. Every Freakin Night features Naadei. It begins with some weird electronic sounds, and launches into some beats, textures and French speaking. Goodness knows what this album is attempting to achieve. This is another dumbed-down and male sexual styled listening that is downright terrible. There is zero pleasure and delight in listening to this trashy music. It has literal zero appeal, even though the French being spoken is interesting. Even EDM has better tunes to listen to as a piece to play whilst doing it. Absolutely terrible to listen to. This album is best listened to as a compilation of the worst music released in 2010. The production and sounds are uninspired and sound lazy as well. This piece of junk tune can be put into the dustbin of history. Just stop. No thanks.

16. What A Night features Claude Kelly. It begins with lone, repeated kick drum beats that seem to go on for an eternity. It launches into a really boring and lame EDM-style tune that has nothing valuable at all about it. This is so predictable and unnecessarily boring, with Lil Jon’s appearance sounding just out of place, once again. This music certainly is not great. It falls apart from the first listen, and you will not wish to hear it again. This album is a genuine disaster, not even like Oasis’s Be Here Now (1997) or Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants (2000) misadventures were deemed on their release date. In fact, this is much, much worse. Lil Jon destroys these songs with his ego and poor personality musically. This is very difficult to love. Avoid it and you will be fine. The outro is okay-ish.

17. Shots features LMFAO and is likely the only listenable tune from this album. That is because it is not designed to be taken seriously. It was a club favourite at the time, and many people loved the alcoholic nature of it all. LMFAO also did a good job here as the guests. This is good, provided that you can’t take it seriously. Very repetitive, but that is the point of it all. Lil Jon would have been better off making an album that was actually hilariously funny to listen to. A good listen if you are an absolute heavy drinker, but its appeal doesn’t last very long. Good in hindsight, but these days, it sounds cheesy and corny. Silly and fun, this album really should have been much more like this tune. All really absurdly terrible but good nonetheless.

18. Work It Out features Pitbull. It launches back into the terrible nature of this album, and just sounds like absolute junk music throughout. This is the sort of garbage that nearly everyone in postmodern Pop makes today. Again, this tune and album need to be jettisoned out of your bedroom window into the bin below, never to be heard ever again. A weird tune with too many male sexual lyrics musically, which don’t sound right. Fortunately, this tune is towards the end of this shameful album. This sounds just weird overall. It is a real drag on the listening ear. There is much better music from this time; go and check out some better releases than this album. A drag to get through. The outro is too long as well.

19. Machuka features Mr Catra and Mulher File. It begins with some interesting sounds and launches into a weird song again about getting it on. This is the sort of trash that won’t stand a chance in the history of the world. Lil Jon seems to ruin everything he touches on this album. The female vocals are also annoying. Does everything really have to be about what goes on down below? The answer quite clearly is no. The sexual references are really disgusting as well. Again, not worth your time or listening needs. The sexually suggestive vocals are okay from the lady guest, but the male rapping means that this is banana territory, not something to impress ladies by any chance. Turn this off when you can.

20. Hey features 3OH!3 and is the final track on this bad album. It begins with random electronic sounds and Lil Jon screaming about wanting to party. This one is actually okay, but even so, it is too little and too late to improve this album. The chorus is annoying with the guest, and there is no turning back, indeed, at this point. This is one of the worst albums in history, and is never mentioned anymore for a very good reason indeed. This music is more immature than a Year 9 High School class. Seriously, this is no good. Hit stop and finish. If you made it through all this and enjoyed it, then you really need to check out some better music. Fortunately, this is bad enough for most to avoid. A pathetic finish to a bad album. Just not good.

This is one of the worst albums ever made, with some exceptions and justification to this rule. It’s just Lil Jon reaching into his pants with his supporters and saying, “Buy this album to look cool”. Just no, thanks, man. Do not listen to this under any circumstances; it is a real joke.

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