Its finally 1998, hold on to your seatbelts ladies and gentlemen as we prepare for the flood. Im not talking about any flood, I mean saturation. No Limit records are about to turn every Sam Goody, The Wall, and Mom/Pop store into a musical trap house with the sudden impact of albums from the rap label. Starting with the debut album from Young Bleed entitled My Balls and My Word. If you havent heard of Young Bleed, he was the dude with the hit single How Ya Do That off of the Im Bout It soundtrack. Will this album live up to expectations...maybe? The album starts off with a laid back track called Keep it Real featuring his counterpart C-Loc and Master P. Something seems fishy about this track
it doesnt have a soldier theme and the album cover doesnt have the No Limit cliché of overkill amounts of Pen and Pixel. What gives? Well according to rumors, this really isnt a No Limit album. No Limit distributed the album, while it was a part of C-Locs label with the same name as the rapper. I guess it was more of a hey Ill give you my hit single and you release my damn album
. Master P was such a hustler.
Back to the review, the album is ok at best. The problem with My Balls and My Word is the fact that it is so boring. There are some tracks that stand out like Keep It Real, Bring the Noise, Pull It Off, Times So Hard, and How Ya Do That, but other tracks are on the dull side. Maybe its Young Bleeds style. It works in some tracks, but he comes off like a mumbling Snorax on lean. Plus, the albums saving grace was his own damn boss C-Loc who KILLED each track he was on, along with his fellow label mates, Fiend and Mystikal.
Bottom line, this album can be skipped despite the fact that its not bad. Some people called it underrated, while Ill say I have heard better albums than this one.