Aaah my life! I simply cannot fathom how fucking amazing this record sounds! Having heard this possibly a hundred thousand times since I was 11 years old, I finally bought this album when I saw it on the "home listening" rack in Cardiff's Catapult Records. I know I waffle on about how fucking great vinyl is (that's the original point of this website, really) but Jesus fuck...it really, really makes the difference to make sure your music on the right format! The bass lines here reach a whole new low, and the music reaches a whole new level of stereophonic scope. Just hearing the cheeky Dolby-esque orchestral rush that Dre put at the beginning of this record is enough to know that this sound is phenomenal. I'm not gonna go off on one about expensive music systems or anything, but shit...if you LOVE music then you NEED to put down that fucking mp3 player and get some records. PLEASE for the loving of fucking God, do it! You will not regret it. I invite ANY of you to come over my place and listen to this record and smoke a couple of bowls...if it means converting you to the way of the wax!
Anyways, onto the record itself! Ha ha! Every good bone in my body tells me that I shouldn't like gangsta rap, with it's hella macho-posturing, subliminal racial segregation, promotion of violence and extreme misogynistic overtones...but hey, I love fucking pornogrind bitches, so I guess all hope is lost! Ha! I can't deny a good beat when I hear one, and I sure as hell can't hate on an amazing flow, regardless of the lyrical content. I am partial to the occasional blunt, sure, but I don't go around smacking bitches if they don't "get all up on this dick" (perhaps I should try that?) and I more than definitely don't carry a "piece", but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the lamentations of people who do (or used to, at least).
I would go into every song here but there are so many fucking classics that this review will go on and on and on forever. I find it pretty crazy that I am so passionate about an album that really, reaaallly doesn't fit into my selection of other favourite albums. 2001 was definitely written about a certain place and time (even though it came out in 1999, figure that one out) but what Dr. Dre and his endless roster of cohorts have created is something that is immortally timeless (in the world of rap, that is). Dr. Dre (and Eminem, and I suppose ICP) taught me that music doesn't have to be heavy as fuck to be cool. Growing up, I definitely think that being into rap from a young age has stopped me from developing the insane narrow-mindedness that a lot of "open-minded" metalheads possess. How's that new Devildriver record treating you, fuckwads!?
I'm gonna round this off for now or we'll end up like one of my Godflesh reviews and last for like 20,000 paragraphs. If you're into this record, you CANNOT go wrong by getting this on wax. If you haven't got a record player, then buy one. If you've never heard a track off of this record then....fuck, what are you waiting for?
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