Search - Mack 10 :: Paper Route

It's the "Dope Man" What did you expect

Nick M a.k.a- FMC | BC, Canada | 09/07/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"One word, "DOPE". Mack 10's fourth album is hotter than ever. You wont find yourself flipping through the songs to get to the Hot Trax on this Album. Mack knows how to keep it real from start to finish. From the "WestSide" gang feat. in "Nobody" to the dirty lyrics of Too Short to the original voice of Mack's new wife T-Boz. This record Features some of the hottest players in the rap game today. I have to say that I honestly belive that the paper route is mack 10's best album to date! I didn't think he could do it, but he has! The Dope Man did it agian!"

Continual Slide

Huy Pham | Los Angeles, CA | 10/24/2000

(2 out of 5 stars)

"Mack 10 seems to have lost it. Like Ice Cube with War and Peace, he tries to sound hard with an edge but you can tell he's trying too hard. He seems to have lost his hunger along with Ice Cube after the Westside Connection album. This is probably 10's worst album has he continues to fall. WC's the only hope for the old Westside Connection. Mack 10's gangsta believability is very very questionable after putting out a pretty lousy album here."

He's done better--let's hope this isn't a falling-off point

sav-man | USA | 08/15/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Hmmm..."From The Streetz" hits hard, "Hustle Game" features GREAT production work by EASY MO BEE, "Tha Weekend" has a pretty cool hook from ICE CUBE, "Pop X" has a nice, underground-ish, ALKAHOLICS-type sound (not to mention a great XZIBIT cameo)and "I'm Dope" is a fun drug metaphor song (dope horns, too--pun intended! Ha ha ha!). Unfortunately, the rest of this seems rushed and just doesn't have enough juice. It seems like he tried to reach too many markets. "Tight To Def" shows that R&B isn't the Chicken Hawk's thing. The southern collaboration ("For Sale" with THE YOUNGBLOODZ and BIG GIPP) just doesn't do it for me, either. "Keep it Gangsta" is underdeveloped and too simplistic, and the beats on "Spousal Abuse" (interesting topic, though), "Nobody" and "Pimp or Die" rob the lyrics (especially WC's) of their potential impact. Since this album came out, though, MACK 10 has signed with CASH MONEY and admitted in an interview that he had his differences with PRIORITY (on which this CD was released) and that they didn't know how to promote him right. This could explain the slapdash quality here. My advice? If you're a MACK 10 fan, buy it, but if you're a novice who wants to get to know MACK 10, buy his first CD (1995's "MACK 10") and THE WESTSIDE CONNECTION'S "Bow Down" CD instead. WHY do once-cool musicians always let the money change them? As BILL COSBY once said: "there's no guarantee for success. But the guaranteed way to fail is to try to please everybody." Think about it."