KEAK IN XXL
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Here's the review in XXL...
Keak Da Sneak: Deified
ALLNDADOE/KOCH
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After his stand out verse on E-40's 2006 hyphy hit "Tell Me When To Go," Keak Da Sneak seemed poised to be the Bay Area's next big thing. Unfortunately, the gravel-voiced MC failed to immediately capitalize off his momentum, relegating himself to local phenomenon status. Now signed to Koch, Keak makes his national debut with Deified.
While Keak reps hyphy to the fullest, he makes a concerted effort to prove he can rap about more than goin' dumb and shakin' dreads. Over the screaming synthesizers and menacing drum smacks of "N Fronta Yo Moma House," he reveales the only thing that can come between a man and his boomin' system: "See that black-and-white car, it's only time I turn it down." The run-ins with the law don't stop there. On "Blurpt," Sneak rhymes, "Ain't no tellin' what them boys will do/Give the German shepard something to chew/Bite you up/Resistin' arrest/And write you up."
Clearly, songs of substance are in Keak's repertoire, but his sometimes-undecipherable flow winds up being a major distraction. "All I Know," featuring Akon, comes off like a muddled apology about the perils of street life due to the track's stacked vocals. And on the heartfelt hometown tribute "Oakland," Keak's inaudible rhymes are overpowered by a superb verse from Mistah F.A.B. "Drop It On The One," with it's gargled hook, suffers a similar fate. Keak manages to turn the negative into a positive by matching his unique vocal stylings with more uptempo tracks. Take "That Go," for example, where the Left Coast MC effortlessly rides the track sparse instrumental, displaying his uncanny knack for making club hits.
Dispite the verbal faults and filler among the project's ambitious 22 track's, the album is a proper introduction to the Bay's most known unknown. But while Deified packs an impressive array of hypy heat, it doesn't yet cement Keak Da Sneak as a hip-hop god.
-Jozen Cummings
Keak Da Sneak: Deified
ALLNDADOE/KOCH
L
After his stand out verse on E-40's 2006 hyphy hit "Tell Me When To Go," Keak Da Sneak seemed poised to be the Bay Area's next big thing. Unfortunately, the gravel-voiced MC failed to immediately capitalize off his momentum, relegating himself to local phenomenon status. Now signed to Koch, Keak makes his national debut with Deified.
While Keak reps hyphy to the fullest, he makes a concerted effort to prove he can rap about more than goin' dumb and shakin' dreads. Over the screaming synthesizers and menacing drum smacks of "N Fronta Yo Moma House," he reveales the only thing that can come between a man and his boomin' system: "See that black-and-white car, it's only time I turn it down." The run-ins with the law don't stop there. On "Blurpt," Sneak rhymes, "Ain't no tellin' what them boys will do/Give the German shepard something to chew/Bite you up/Resistin' arrest/And write you up."
Clearly, songs of substance are in Keak's repertoire, but his sometimes-undecipherable flow winds up being a major distraction. "All I Know," featuring Akon, comes off like a muddled apology about the perils of street life due to the track's stacked vocals. And on the heartfelt hometown tribute "Oakland," Keak's inaudible rhymes are overpowered by a superb verse from Mistah F.A.B. "Drop It On The One," with it's gargled hook, suffers a similar fate. Keak manages to turn the negative into a positive by matching his unique vocal stylings with more uptempo tracks. Take "That Go," for example, where the Left Coast MC effortlessly rides the track sparse instrumental, displaying his uncanny knack for making club hits.
Dispite the verbal faults and filler among the project's ambitious 22 track's, the album is a proper introduction to the Bay's most known unknown. But while Deified packs an impressive array of hypy heat, it doesn't yet cement Keak Da Sneak as a hip-hop god.
-Jozen Cummings
