19 thoughts on “No Country For Old (Rap) Men: Sorry M.O.P, I’m Finally Tapping Out”

  1. I agree – the album as a whole is bit soft and uninspiring but I liked Broad Daylight – taking an arbitrary, throwaway Jay-Z line and making a killer hook to accompany the hard beats. The production on the Mobb Deep track is pretty good too.

    I’m in the pro-187 camp with you – it’s similar in concept to the use of the Foreigner sample on Cold As Ice and then slapping a hard beat underneath.

  2. Wow. Just Wow. I listened to this yesterday while I was working and I def heard nothing rewindable. It’s not horrible. Still better than the crap on the radio but something is def missing. I dont know bout the production credits cuz I downloaded it but if what you say is true than they def need to go back to the drawing board and get the old team back. Preemo isn’t needed but I’d love to hear them over that one dude that use to lace them in the beginning of their career. His name escapes me right now. But I give you dap for wearing them feeling on your sleeve man. The old heads may need to consider retiring or go back to what we love. Leave that pride at home.

  4. I agree! Their last album I liked was “Marxmen Cinema” which wasn’t even an album technically and that was 10 years ago… damn! What happened to them ? As far as rappin they still alright to me, Lil Fame as a producer is still capable of makin bangers – so why the hell they choose to release their albums like this?
    And why albums executively produced by Premier, suck that hard ? (“Street Hop”, what else?)

  5. @ Robbie…I feared this was true and I believe you ( I won’t listen, I just won’t do it! ) …. And this is especially sad because It’s MY WORD that Danze’s verse on ” You Can’t Hide ” ** (True School) is like Top 5 verses of the entire year for me!?!

    ** Every listener is a Vic, Danze is talking to you while robbing you and there ain’t a mothafucking thing you can say or do to
    stop it!

  6. Sounded like shit from an interview i read about it and wtf?? Maino?? Nah B…These niggas loosing their audience, the only people who still gave a fuck about them. I dont care how stale Preemo got its better then the bullshit on here and Fizzy knows how to make a good beat as well i thought..fuck this

  7. I’m done wit them too. Truth be told though, 80% of these commercial & underground rap artists, old & new, be stale nowadays. Nobody take chances creatively anymore.

  8. Sad but true. This is what indulging numbnuts like Snowgoons and Termanology does, unfortunately. And Fizzy has some beats but I’m afraid he might have used them up on others… I also don’t think these guys ever recovered from the G-Unit fiasco…

    St. Marxmen was spotty, Foundation was spotty… If not Wariors, the last solid M.O.P. was probably the fugazy version of Ghetto Warfare…

  9. p/s– as a Brooklyn native myself, I apologize to the world for Maino, worst Brooklyn rapper ever to have even a make believe career on the mic… Dudes from Group Home are like Rakim & Kane by comparison.

  10. @Ghost of Prospect Plaza: The good tracks on ‘Marxman Cinema’ were classic to me. The day that Rakim invited Maino to a record will forever be remembered as the beginning of the end.

  11. EP was dissapointing and they released the whole more listenable half of it before it dropped.

    Still will continue to check for there future shit because loyalty is an admirable trait.

  13. These guys could have been arms dealers in another life.

    I remember tracks like the G Rap collabos, Both Salutes, 4 Alarm Blaze, you would just end up randomly screaming “FIRST family”. Teflon’s Game of Life is a classic, the track that is.

  14. Not “shout” song is used on “187”.

    The song is called “head over heels”.

    J

  15. “shout” song is not used on “187”.

    The song is called “head over heels”.

    J

  16. I haven’t checked it out yet but I will out of morbid curiosity. I think the 187 joint was gully and the joint with Busts was tolerable. If Preme EP’ed the joint, blame him for the weak beats (never thought in a million years, I’d say that…)

    @Malmoe: I think you’re talking’ about D/R Period

    Bboy, what up!

  18. Body On The Iron’ From the Snowgoons stint at least still had some hunger & ambience i thought, this new effort however is stale bread, with nill rewind factor. @Robbie Ettelson what ever happend to DR Period anyway?

  19. “Broad Daylight,” “Street Certified,” and “187” are probably the best songs overall. “187” knocks b/c Fame produced it. Unsure why he isn’t handling ALL production on a M.O.P. album.

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