Music to Driveby

Music to Driveby Artist: Compton's Most Wanted
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 074645298429
EAN: 0074645298429
ASIN: B0000028SB


Release Date: 1992-09-29

Music to Driveby


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Tracks:

  1. Intro
  2. Hit The Floor
  3. Hood Took Me Under
  4. Jack Mode
  5. Compton 4 Life
  6. 8 Iz Enough
  7. Duck Sick II
  8. Dead Men Tell No Lies
  9. N 2 Deep
  10. Who's Xxxxing Who
  11. This Is A Gang
  12. Hoodrat
  13. Niggaz Strugglin
  14. I Gots Ta Get Over
  15. U's A Bitch
  16. Another Victim
  17. Def Wish II
  18. Music To Driveby

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Serious Game Poppin' Off From The CPT.......2007-04-13

CMDubb's 3rd album, Music To Driveby is easily one of the top albums of the early 90's, thumpin beats and awesome rhymes. DJ Slip, Unknown, and DJ Mike T serve the beats in different flavas, raw, smooth, funky, melodic , jazzy (at times), and hella funky! Productionwise, this is one of the best albums of 1992, in my opinion. All three layer soul and funk samples one on top of another and Mike T dices and scratches them up with precision. Musically, this album resembles a West Coast DJ Premier of Gangstarr. Here in 1992, West Coast and East Coast beats diverge musically, and G-Funk was starting to pop up in West Coast albums. This album shows those tendencies while remaining raw at the same time. MC Eiht is game tight throughout the album. He can hold his own, and he gets hard on DJ Quik (who to be fair, I am a big fan of too)on the short "Who's Xxxxing Who?" and "Duck Sick 2," the latter is a funky classic. I love the Issac Hayes "Walk On By" sample by Slip on the melodic "Hood Took Me Under," an absolute classic where CMW shoots game about the trappings of the hood. Another classic is "N 2 Deep" with Mr. Scarface, another one of my favorite rappers; they both serve heat over a soulful funky beat. I love "This Is A Gang" which beautifully samples the beat sequence and hook of NWA's 1988 classic "Compton's In The House," and Slip adds a soft funky flute to add to the effect. This album sets a high standard for West Coast rap and often takes a back seat to other West Coast albums like The Chronic. It should not be overlooked.

4 out of 5 stars OFFICAL HIP-HOP REVIEWER.......2006-12-12

hello crazy hip hop fans. im so glad to read these comments left about this wonderfull album. i'd like to say "DJ MIKE J" has left a brilliant review and has said all that needs to be said about this album. to be blunt * * * GO BUY IT * * * *

5 out of 5 stars Compton 4 life.......2006-06-20

I hooked up this cd after playing GTA San Andreas, when hearing one of their songs "Hood Took Me Under" on Radio Los Santos, I went simply crazy and butt-Wild. The Album has the most powerful beats ewer made out westcoast. If you planing to look foe some real gangsta, this is it right here.

Review`ed by: S.A.G rapper from Norway, Bergen.

4 out of 5 stars cpt's most wanted.......2004-07-25

it's a good album, it has some nice songs like def wish 2 and n 2 deep, but if you want cmw's best then i suggest you pick up it's a compton thang or straight checkn em

5 out of 5 stars Maybe the best Gangsta rap album ever..........2004-03-29

Say what you will about the obvious choices of "The Chronic" and "Doggystyle", my choice will always be Music to Driveby. This album exemplifies what not only great Gangsta rap should sound like but what good hip-hop should sound like as well.

First and foremost, Eiht is an emcee, not just a rapper. This performance is the pinacle of his rhyme ability before he became known to the public as "the guy who says geeyah". He battles ("Dead Men Tell No Lies", "Duck Sick II", "Def Wish II", and "Who's ****ing Who?"), he paints big lyrical hood murals ("Hood Took Me Under" & "Jack Mode"), he constantly reps his hood ("Compton 4 Life"), experiments ("N*ggaz Strugglin" & "U's a B*tch"), and destroys with rapid fire delivery ("Hit the Floor"). He may be the only artist to ever hold his own on a track with the great Brad Jordan a.k.a. Scarface ("N 2 Deep").

Production is cutting edge as well and again. After the slightly uninspired Staight Checkn'em album, this album returns to the original formula that made It's a Compton Thang so great - creative use of samples. "Hood Done Took Me Under" is the classic example. Eiht rips the Isaac Hayes sample used by Easy Mo B for Notorious BIG a few years later for "Warning", and a good decade before Ludacris used it again on his "Chicken & Beer" album. To top it all off, the loop was vastly superior to either of these uses or numerous others. Or better yet, check the clever use of scratches and snippets on "Who's ****ing Who?" where Tim Dog's voice is used to scorch himself. The complete bastardization of BDP's classic "South Bronx" was even a bold manuver with, to my surprise, absolutely no response from Krs-ONE. And to wrap it all up, you get the smooth instrumental "Music To Driveby" to round it all out.

Yeah sure, Eiht didn't get the national recognition until We Come Strapped a few years later. But that album, in my opinon, pales in comparison to the overuse of the same production used on Driveby's "Hood Rat" and waaaaaaay to many "Geeyah's". Driveby's way more diverse in both production and lyrics and does not suffer from any overused topics that Eiht would later be forced to employ from the overabundance of other Gangsta rappers and their albums.

If you're even a mild fan of gangsta rap or even hip hop in general, do yourself a favor and pick up this classic.

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