This might be the best album of the summer. Unlike other albums, I want to try and avoid the temptation of song/album leaks before July 20th.
Reasons the album might be great?
1)There are only 11 tracks. I'm hoping the expression "less is more" applies here.
2)The single "Super High f/ Ne-Yo" is the song of the summer. Count in your head five better songs that have dropped this year.
3) "Maybach Music I" and II have been great. The third feature has Jadakiss (he can't make a good album [excluding his first one], but he kills on features) and Erykah. Nuff said.
4)Kanye and Ross have already stated that the "Live Fast, Die Young" record will be classic. Could be blowing smoke. I doubt it.
5) "Free Mason" f/ Jay-Z. O BOY!
6) He's doing a record w/ Cee-lo. Have you heard his recent material?! [Scroll down to the earlier blog posting this week]
Reason the album might be so-so?
1) There is a feature on EVERY song except for one.
2) The "MC Hammer" track f/ Gucci. Has a feeling of a track that's skippable and/or one that I would like if I was 16 with a bowl cut and still living at home and pushing his mom's old Nissan like it was a Ferrari and needed something to get me in the mood right before I went in to work at Burger King for the next 8 hours where I would get yelled at by two gross, fantastically bloated manager-monster twins who didn't do anything and got upset when none of us kids wanted to wash their candy-red spray-painted Honda Accord.
[Side story - I DID work at Burger King. On two separate occasions. I hated it the first time, but I could never get a job at a more desirable teenage workplace (Foot Locker, Nautica, Polo) and needed money; consequently, I went back.]
3) Diddy is 1] his manager now I guess and 2] is on the album. Take that, take that.
Anyways, here is the tracklist.
1. I’m Not A Star
2. Free Mason f. Jay-Z
3. Tears Of Joy f. Cee-Lo
4. Maybach Music III f. T.I., Jadakiss & Erykah Badu
5. Live Fast, Die Young f. Kanye West
6. Super High f. Ne-Yo
7. No. 1 f. Trey Songz & Diddy
8. MC Hammer f. Gucci Mane
9. B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast) f. Styles P
10. Aston Martin Music f. Drake & Chrisette Michele
11. All The Money In The World f. Raphael Saadiq
July 20th.
