B.G. - Checkmate
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Artist: B.G.Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2000-11-21
Music Label: Cash Money
Soundtracks:
- Big Tymers
- To My People
- Gun Slinger
- U Know How We Do
- What's That Smell
- This N_Die
- Change the World
- Tyma Talkin'
- Hennessy and XTC
- Tyma Talkin'
- Press One
- Jungle
- I Know
- Bounce with Me
- Get In Line
- Run With My Chopper
- Tyma Talkin'
- Problems
- Ah Ha
- He Used 2 Be A Man
Free Music Notes for Checkmate
Free Music Review: May Take A Few Moves, But He'll Put You In Checkmate (Rating: 7 out of 10- -3.5 stars)
Hit: 3 Stars
After his great 1999 album Chopper City in the Ghetto, B.G. comes out with his album Checkmate. With this album B.G. does what I believe his label mate (at the time) Juvenile did with Tha G-Code and capitalize on momentum from the previous album. As with every Cash Money album that dropped at the time, B.G. rhymed about the street life, mostly about guns and drugs. Every once in a while, he'll switch it up, but don't keep your hopes ups while listening to this album.
What plays a great part in this album (or on almost every Cash Money album back then) was Mannie Fresh's production. Most of the beats here will keep an interest of the listener. At the same time, B.G.'s rhymes do have some substance. With songs like "Gunslinger", "This ***** Die", and "Jungle", as well as a few more, revolving around the same subject matter. Times he does switch it up a bit here. The sort of conceious song "If I Can Change The World" featuring Juve, Lil Wayne, and The Big Timers, explains what they would do if they had control over the world (to this day I still believe that they could have done another verse seeing the pattern of when everone rhymed in that song). "Press One" is pretty good, sort of like a love song. "Get In Line" is great and features Juvenile and is one of my favorite tracks on this album. A young Lil Wayne would appear on the first single "I Know" as well as "You Know How We Do". The Big Tymers would also appear on "Hennesy & XTC" (was that a video by any chance?).
No doubt this is a great album. New commers of B.G. while he was on Cash Money should try to find Chopper City in the Ghetto. Both that as well as this album are out of print, which I wonder why, because these are his two most popular albums while he was on that record label. But if you find it at a reasonable price, add this to your collection. Peace!
Lyrics: B+
Production: B+
Guest Appearances: B+
Musical Vibes: B-
Top 5 Tracks:
1. Get In Line (featuring Juvenile)
2. I Know (featuring Lil Wayne)
3. Change The World (feauting Lil Wayne, Baby, Mannie Fresh, and Juvenile)
4. Press One (featuring Baby)
5. Gun Slinger
Honorable Mention Tracks:
1. Bounce With Me
2. You Know How We Do (featuring Lil Wayne)
Checkmate Poster
A teenage heroin addict, B.G.'s always had stories to tell, dating back to his first album, True Story, which he recorded when he was just 11. Nevertheless, B.G. ascended to fame with "Bling Bling," a love song to ostentation that epitomized his label, Cash Money Records, at its peak: unchecked excess in lieu of dark thug anthems. Those were the good times, and there was nary a hater in sight. Apparently, times are getting harder 'round Cash Money Boulevard, as reflected by B.G.'s latest, Checkmate. Gone are the epic tales of jewelry and cars, the promises of helicopter rides and fellatio. As Cash Money president Bryan "Baby" Williams says on the album's intro: "This lil dude rap about sunflower seeds, and somebody got killed; he rapped about stunting, and somebody got killed; he rapped about babymamas, and somebody got killed." That said, here the Baby Gangsta gets back to doing the killing himself. On "Gun Slinger," over a wicked pan-flute arrangement, he promises to "bust hollows like Cupid bust arrows," leaving "your family grieving, saying 'Amazing Grace'." He's no kinder on "What's That Smell," warning, "When it come down to you and me, it won't be me." On "Bounce with Me," he even indicts the bling economy: "Tie your family up / They all on the floor, nigga / By all means, whatever it takes to get green, I do, 'cause I wanna bling." Even when he was celebrating excess, B.G. conveyed arrogance with an easy, slurred drawl. Back to recounting tales of the danger zone, his tenor evokes even more gravitas, which results in a set of songs that are compelling and occasionally downright scary. In Cash Money parlance, this album is a risk, and completely forsakes the formula that's earned the label hit upon hit. But perhaps the clique is prescient, merely the first to recognize that hip-hop's Platinum Age is coming to a close, and that the streets are as real as ever. --Jon CaramanicaRap & Hip-Hop Music CDs
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