Search - Lil Jon :: Crunk Rock

Horrible

Jacob Roberts | CULLEO, TN! | 07/12/2010

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Wow. I don't think Nickelback could make a worse album, even if they tried."

Mostly Garbage

Walt Whifflebats | 07/03/2010

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Judging purely on the music, one gets the sense that Lil Jon has completely sold out. Things start with a flat-out lie about this CD being full of "real crunk", despite it being the farthest thing from crunk Jon's ever released. Most of the club/party songs are filled with uninspired, horribly lame lyrics with beats to match. They lack everything that made Crunk Juice such an addictive, hard-hitting album and never does the rock influence come through the way it should have. Not helping matters are the guest stars, which plague this album from start to finish. Some even drag the music further down, if that's possible. Ice Cube is the only one that manages to infuse real talent into his section, though he's severely underused.



Remember how his old CDs had maybe a couple of songs made solely for women? A full HALF of this one is designed that way, presumably because that's his core demographic now. Needless to say, this half is un-listenable and most certainly not crunk or rock. What's even funnier is that everything leading up to these songs belittles and disparages women, including the one or two "best" tracks. And the best tracks even require some break-in time to acquire a taste for, as they at first seem just as bad as everything else. These do however display the talent hidden within Lil Jon, if only for a minute. It's possible he drank it all away or he's too lazy to utilize it, but if he really wanted to, he could put out something significant. Right now though, that's not the case. This CD was solely created to trick people into buying it, not because it's quality music, but because it's borderline mainstream pop. It's awful. Whatever relevancy Lil Jon has left has been put on death row because of this. If he doesn't put out something 100 times better, very soon, he's on his way out."