Search - Messy Marv :: Bandannas Tattoos & Tongue Rings

Let it Be Known

Hurt M. Badd | Los Angeles, CA | 05/03/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I thought Disobayish would be a difficult album to top. It was one of my favorites of last year. Thankfully Messy Marv came back with slaps on this new LP. The title, "Bandannas Tattoos and Tongue Rings" is a blatant shot at Black Wall Street rapper the Game. It seems like everyone is going hard at the Game right now. Marv is also airing out the rapper Obie Trice.

The production is consistently excellent and definitely on the same level as his last album. These are some of the hardest beats out right now, period. Almost every track on here is thick. Mess can hold an album on his own and the guest appearances are not out of control (but check out Suga Free's fly contribution to "Sexy Thing"). Some of the skits are funny, especially "Eat the Poot". Marv is on that laid back, beatin down the block vibe so it dont sound like a lot of cats from the bay that are hot right now. Someone is going to have to call their album "Sponge" after soaking game from "Bandannas Tattoos and Tounge Rings", another high powered album from one of the best in the Bay and definitely one of the best LP's so far this year"