★★★★★
"Ay Max Julien here, a.k.a. Goldie. I'm a little pissed right now. To all you cockroaches and creatures out there, I'm gettin tired of people tellin me about somebody else did this or somebody else did this shit. Y'know I've been hearin from Snoop and Pimp and all these other people back there y'know, talkin about y'know Do or Die started this whole pimp thing on their records man. They laid this shit out long time ago...
- rapreviews.com
2010-05-28
★★★★★
Although their most famous acts were still Houston rappers, by the mid-90s Rap-A-Lot Records was a national entity, with artists such as Seagram representing Oakland, Mad CJ Mac and Poppa LQ representing Los Angeles, Boston's Almighty RSO, Ghetto Twiinz from New Orleans, Milwaukee's A-G-2-A-Ke, Chicago's Da Snypaz, and Memphis' Tela...
- rapreviews.com
2010-03-12
★★★★★
If you crossed Bone-Thugz, Scarface, and the Chi-Town sound, what wouldthe result be? Well, you can't exactly give this group much credit fororiginality, but this album defies a complete smackdown.Why? First of all, unlike Bone the flows are actually intelligible anddon't rely _solely_ on musical chanting and harmonizing -- it seems tobe the exception rather than the norm...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
For any fan of 90's hardcore rap, thoughts of Chicago will inevitably bring Do or Die to mind. Ever since their gold debut album "Picture This", Do or Die's Westside Chicago sound has epitomized the kind of harmonious thug melodies that draw (favorable) comparisons to Cleveland's own Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. The downside of that is their biggest hits "Po Pimp" and "Still Po Pimpin'" are associated with guest rapper Twista's rapid-fire delivery and the crooned hooks of Johnny P...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Chicago's Do or Die try different thug themes on their third album, Victory, like they're trying to score at a singles bar. Rappers Belo, A.K. and N.A.R.D. are making G's one minute (detailing a bank robbery on "Tha Heist") and embodying the hardcore G the next (on "Thuggin It Out"), but their verses sound like hackneyed pickup lines: "Diamonds 'round my wrist going bling bling bling/Money at the bank going ching ching ching" is as trite as "What's your sign?" Producer Mr...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Hip-hop eats its own. Artists who were once on top of the world are half-forgotten footnotes a few years later. But hip-hop is also fiercely regional, and its backwaters are undyingly loyal to their hometown heroes. Chicago, the third-largest city in the nation, has only produced a few rap artists of note, and therefore remains a hip-hop backwater. So when Do or Die-- the first hip-hop group to bring a platinum record home to the Chi-- decide to mount a comeback, local royalty like R...
- pitchfork.com
2009-06-07
★★★★★
Decent enough album from these Chicago native trio, Do or Die. The general concensus about DoD, I think, is that their MC innovation isn't in lyrics but in flow. The flow is one part Fu-Schnickens, one part doo-wop. It's kind of amazing, and their protege Twista has made this flow as important to Chicago as choruses are to crunk...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
Perseverance in hip-hop tends not to pay off when you start strong and can't maintain momentum the second time out. Unlike a lot of other rap artists who debuted with a big single during the '90s, Do or Die did not fall off the face of the earth. They didn't dissolve after a second LP, either. They've remained active since 1996's "Po Pimp," building a catalog of albums that has been snapped up by a core following, despite only three charting singles to their credit. The group's sixth album, D.O...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Taking a major U-turn from their 2005 effort D.O.D., Do or Die have stripped things to their bare essentials on Get That Paper, and it suits this veteran, underappreciated trio perfectly. No Kanye West, no R. Kelly this time, just Bun B, whose appearance on the slippery slow jam "Hey Ma!" is a Chicago-meets-the-South highlight, while everything else on this solid effort is homegrown...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
Loading...
