Eve: Ruff Ryder's First Lady - Ruff Ryders' First Lady
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Artist: Eve: Ruff Ryder's First LadyEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 1999-09-14
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- First Lady (Intro)
- Let's Talk About (featuring Drag-On)
- Gotta Man
- Philly Cheese Steak (Skit)
- Philly, Philly (featuring Beanie Segal)
- Stuck Up (featuring C.J.)
- Ain't Got No Dough (featuring Missy Elliot)
- BM (Skit)
- Love Is Blind
- Scenario 2000 (featuring DMX, The LOX, Drag-On)
- Dog Match (featuring DMX)
- My B****** (featuring DMX)
- We On That S***! (featuring P. Killer Tracks)
- Chokie Nikes (Skit)
- Maniac
- My Enemies (Skit)
- Heaven Only Knows
- What Y'all Want (Remix)
Free Music Notes for Ruff Ryders' First Lady
Free Music Review: Let There Be Eve
Hit: 4 Stars
Eve (Eve Jeffers) was at the right time, right place when her debut album with the long name "Let There Be Eve...Ruff Ryders' First Lady" was released in 1999. While other female rappers like Lil Kim and Foxy Brown were oversexual and vulgar, Missy Elliott was corny and homouristic or Queen Latifah that was never making many albums in the first place. Eve was a woman with attitude, although she was quite sexy she didn't take s!it from anyone, and she would go on making lyrics about respect and girl power delivered with the help of Production from mostly Swizz Beatz (all but one song) from Ruff Ryders that had produced fellow Ruff Ryder mate DMX albums aswell. She may not have been as outstanding as Queen Latifah that had many simular themes in her lyrics but she was more commercial and could therefore appeal to a broader audience. With great production and street smart lyrics about self respect and strenght Eve really does stand out from the crowd. I do believe that women may like her more then men cause of that, but she does get respect from me too.
A duet with Ruff Ryder proteg? Drag-On with awesome beats called "Let's Talk About" serves as a good introduction to who Eve is and what she stands for. However, it's the more serious songs that Eve shines most on like "Gotta Man" about staying true in a relationship, the touching "Love is Blind" about domestic violence and the autobiographical song "Heaven Only Knows" a Hip Hop ballad about self respect. But there is more then that, a tribute to her hometown Philadelphia with underrated rapper Beenie Siegal called "Philly Philly". A hot duet with Missy Elliott called "Ain't Got No Dough" about cash flow and then duets with DMX, "Dog Match" and "My B____es". The latter also a female anthem and a third with him The Lox and Drag On called "Scenario 2000". The're also a remix of the song "What You'll Want" as the closer, a latin inspired beat oriented song that is also wothwhile. With 18 songs included there's also a intro, a few skits and some less fascinating songs but nonetheless this album is strong.
Overall, Eve is one of a kind and she came out at the right time and place with an album with enough variety between no nonsense uptempo's for the clubs, street credability to serious songs about self respect, domestic violence and love. Like already mentioned, Swizzy deliver the beats and he does a splendid job on that. If you want a female rapper with attitude that demands respect, you got Eve and this is probably her best album aswell one of that years.
Ruff Ryders' First Lady Poster
Rather than a full-fledged coming-out party for this tough-minded rapper, Ruff Ryders' First Lady seems more like a sequel to the Ryde or Die, Vol. 1 compilation. Ryders boss DMX, Missy Elliott, and other guests take mic time equal to that of the album's nominal star, making performances such as "Scenario 2000" posse cuts more than reflections of Eve's state of mind. She does get her own thing going on "Love Is Blind"--the angry expression of sisterhood in the face of male abuse that Chante Moore's "Chante's Got a Man" should've been--and "My Bitches," which praises students and job holders as much as the gangstas who get props on other tracks. --Rickey WrightRap & Hip-Hop Music CDs
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