Down South Hustlers: Bouncin and Swingin
Overall Score- 8.0
By the end of 1995, No Limit Records was slowly rising to the top. A major distribution deal with all of the trimmings and a following that stretches from hood to hood. Its time to let more southern acts on this buffet as the double disc compilation album Down South Hustlers: Bouncin and Swingin introduce the world to southern hip hop. As the album West Coast Bad Boys Vol 1 gave the west a bit of showroom, this album gives listeners a taste of that good ole southern bass, hard drums, funky melodies, and dope gumbo laced rhymes from major acts like Eightball & MJG, The Dayton Family, DJ Screw, Point Blank, the No Limit crew, and other local acts from New Orleans. Each track has a different style to it from the Cadillac door slamming sounds of Playaz from the South (love that track btw), gangsta shit like A Lot Auh Nuttin, and some booty bouncing club tunes like Bounce That Azz. Each track has something for everybody.
However, some of the tracks are from previous albums. So if you had an early screw tape, dont feel discourage about the fact that My Mind Went Blank is on the album (why would you trip since the song is dope though?). Now, since this is a double album I want to discuss the long bloody war between disc 1 vs disc 2. From my recollection, disc 2 was always better than disc 1, but on this album its more of an exception that disc 1 is better than disc 2. The second half of the album is riddled with boredom and heard it all before tracks. Hence Ps method of quantity>>>quality. One last thing about the album is that it introduced Soulja Slim to the world, under his former name Magnolia Slim. He proved that hes no slouch on the mic with the track You Got It. Overall, its a pretty dope compilation for fans of Southern Hip Hop and worth checking out for the simple fact playas from the south stack gs/Flippin tight on that white/with that candy on them gold Ds.
Overall Score- 8.0