Celebrating a decade of keeping it gutter, Murder Dog magazine presents two discs of up-and-comers, overlooked players, plus a
Banner and a
Bone. Heavy with Dirty South tracks, the collection is more 2005-oriented than a nostalgic look back at a decade of hip-hop, but there's no denying, Murder Dog are worthy compilers. The discs aren't straight-up mixed but tightly edited together with no gaps. With fierce banger after banger tightly edited together, the two CDs roll hard and you'd be hard-pressed to put together a more fist-pumping experience on your own. Superstars
David Banner,
Krayzie Bone, and
Mike Jones all bring their best, but the B-list supply the real highlights. Whitefolks' "So Much Drama" is the perfect marriage of
Cypress Hill and
Lil Wyte while Venomous Smoke plays Dirty South
Jay-Z to
Gangsta Boo's Dirtier South
Beyoncé on the smoking club track "Donkey Kong." The legendary-to-those-who-know
Relativez offer yet another tasty G-funk track while both
Jacka and
Husalah kick it experimental.
Jacka's and
Husalah's tracks seem out of place among so much gangsta music, but they're both worthy and placed together at the end of disc one in case you want to make this a 100 percent "head bussa" experience. ~ David Jeffries