Search - Freddie Foxxx :: Konexion

1-1/2 stars -- I think I'm going to cry

Anthony Rupert | Milwaukee, WI | 06/18/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I have been feeling Freddie Foxxx (or Bumpy Knuckles) ever since he helped Guru and Big Shug rip up "The Militia". And I really liked his album Industry Shakedown. But I can't say the same for Konexion. It pains me to say this, but this album isn't even worth downloading.The title track, which samples Kleeer's "Intimate Connection", is really the only tolerable song on here, next to the last track, "New Millenium" (if you even get that far). Too many songs have production that doesn't work well with Bumpy's flow. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell that "PAINE" and "Lazy!!!" were produced by DJ Premier. "Step Up" sounds like a bad remix of D12's "Purple Pills", and the way people in the background keep saying "Whoa!" in that song doesn't help matters.But production isn't the main problem. The lyrics on this album range from weak to wack. It made me ask, "Is this really Bumpy Knuckles?" Wack choruses can be found in "Stick `Em Up!", "Swazzee", "Tell Me", and...well, pretty much the whole album. And the verses in these songs aren't the best, either.I know this is too easy, but better title tracks for this album would have been "Lazy!!!" or "Mega Bomb Dropper". And to do a hyped-up (if not self-indulgent) interview in the intro and then give us 74 minutes of confusion (yep, I said 74 minutes - what's up with Bumpy and way-too-long albums?) is a very bad move. In short, how do I feel about this album? In the words of track 12, "No, I Ain't With It!"Anthony Rupert"

The beats and rhymes don't make a "konexion"

E.J. Rupert | Milwaukee, WI | 11/04/2003

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Freddie Foxxx - Konexion (Rapster, 2003)What a disappointment this album is. And they wonder why file-sharing programs exist, so you can listen to the album before you buy it! On every song of this album, either the production is decent or the lyrics are tight; it's one of the other, never both. The only exception to this is "Me!!" when Bumpy Knucks drops jewel after jewel over a nice beat: "I seen Q-Tip turn into Maxwell and Shyne go to jail/White boys want my culture but they don't want my life/'Cuz when they stop being n****s they go back to being white". But in the song before that, he spits wack rhymes like, "I'm not like you/You're not like me/No matter what they say, boy/You're not like me". Also, why is he always so mad? He complains that the industry is shady but it's hard to take him seriously with these plastic beats. He needs more beats from Primo, Pete Rock, Alchemist, and even himself like Industry Shakedown had. -EJR"

Major disappointment

Michel Mees | Ekeren, Antwerp BELGIUM | 03/10/2004

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Crazy As A Foxxx and Industry Shakedown were as hot and street as it gets. This album is the opposite, it's like they asked him to put his worse out and the beats he got arent much either. Just another example of how those record companies continue to destroy hip-hop, rappers are asked to put out albums that are as flat as a white girls butt. Nowadays the simpler and wacker your album is the more you sell."