Mr Green & Young Zee - One Crazy Weekend (Album Review)

An artist who i've been into for a good 10 years now i'd say, maybe a little less. I can't pin point what the first song was, but I've been a fan for a while. Even though I might have got him (Young Zee) at one stage confused with fellow Outsida, and his wife (I think) Rah Digga. I remember the 'D12 World' skit in 2004, was one tune, and other than that it was the Outsidaz album 'The Brick', and the Eminem featured songs 'Macosa' and 'Rush Ya Clique'. So I mean this album i've been quite interested to hear. Even if it is only 12 tracks.

12 tracks that begin with 'Throw Your Hands Up', which is a quite interesting track beatwise, with a hard rock kind of backdrop, sampling partner in rhyme Pacewon, and as a little insight into what production Mr Green has to offer - this is a perfect example.  As for Zee it's all about the lyrics as usual, and this one is no different:

"I'm not your average rap dude, i done morphed it, I can spit it from round March to July or August".

So business as usual from Zee, the album continues with the heavily sampled 'Those Days'. A track with that typical Outsidaz sound, and with its skippy kind of beat - you could say it's one for the DJ's.

Track 3 now, and this one is called 'Chillin with the kids'. Assumingly about spending time at home with the family. A lot softer than the last two, it's not dislikable, but as a personal kind of track - it's more one for Young Zee to listen to rather than his fans. A mistake by no means it follows with track 4 on the album 'I Love It', which again is different beatwise than the usual sort of Young Zee or Outsidaz track. About making music i'd have said, good lyrics include:

"She pass out like i'm in a coma, with my whole, hand in her hole, I stand up & go".

"Don't think i'm soft - see i jump around and playful with my 4 -5th they'll need the power of Grayskull".

An alright track actually after a couple of listens, and for the fact that it's a 3rd of the way through already - you could say that as a retail release it's good value so far. So far so good, but what's my opinion of the next track (track 5) 'Hahahahahaha'?

Well, it's got a hardbeat for a start, and for content: Ok - a bit out of order to certain individuals you would have thought, with the shout out to the dude who sold keys (Kilos of ??) to Whitney Houston (what ultimately killed her), but it's kind of funny for the hook in a morbid kind of way:

"I shoot and blast, then I drive away.... Bang, I laugh like Hahahahaa".

On to track 6 though - halfway through the album, and this one's called 'Ohh... I'm telling', and this one is also kinda funny. The concept is about people getting offended by Zee's lyrics, and threatening to tell his mother. So yes quite funny even hearing about, and to picture Zee getting chased round the kitchen with a broomstick - even funnier. Followed by track 7 'Never Enough'. A bit more serious this time, and it's about Zee's insatiable appetite to do what he does whether it's women or music, and if the lyrics anything to go by...

"I'ma do this rap s**t till i've got bright white hair..."
then the rapper doesn't plan on stopping any time soon, but back to the present, and we move on to track 8 'Wierd'. A title that is quite fitting to the first lyric actually:

"I wanna have kids with a dazziling anglo saxon actress like Brad Pitt, and then adopt a black kid from Africa/ I be a kids father to make my baby switch mama's like Swizz, and Mashonda, then Alicia Conda".

Wierd, but anyway, good beat, sounds a bit Linkin Parkish, and for a rapper that dares rhyme Mermaid with Bird Cage - you gotta love right. For the first 8 tracks at least, and two thirds of the way through the album, you can only hope that the last four tracks keep this momentum going. Tracks that begin with 'Hometown', and it's basically about Zee's locality of the Bricks, NJ, and its day to day goings on. Which sounds as Zee describes it as not exactly a haven, but you would think that there's probally no other place that the rapper would rather be.

A rapper that we get to know a little bit better on track 10 'Number One Fan', and it's a song for people like myself i'd say who've been checking Zee & the Outsidaz stuff out over the years. It's basically a little run down of some of the stuff Zee's done over the years, and kind of like an interlude in length (only 2 mins).  So i mean over quite quickly. Over, and on to track 11, 'If I only had a brain', and this one is kind of like the last track on the album considering track 12 is freestyle with 'Stretch & Bobbito'. A track what you would imagine has adopted its title from that famous saying from the Scarecrow out of the Wizard of Oz. A track which is good end to the album considering track 12 is like a bonus track, and it's a typical Young Zee/ Outsidaz track really, with that classical hip hop sound. A good finish to a good album, but on to the freestyle now, and it's a collective effort from as well as Zee; Outsidaz: Pacewon, D.U, Azizz, & Rah Digga. From ?? I would say it's probablly a few years old, and as a bonus? I would say fair enough, a bit random, but the albums good so why not.

Evaluation:

I'm not complaining, and at assessment time, I'm going to give this album a 9/10 rating. Quite a high mark, but I think that this album couldn't have really been anything more than it become, so for that reason I'm gonna say that it's a 9/10 because for a short album - for Zee's lyrics - It's on point. So I mean you would hope there's more to come, but for the moment this is good as it gets I suppose. Till a new Outsidaz album hopefully, and of course any future releases from Mr Green, Pacewon, and of course Young Zee.

My Opinion:

You should buy this album on Vinyl, but before you do check out the album yourself at Amazon.

For U.S Customers.

For U.K Cusomers.