Space Age 4 Eva

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Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 64:02

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Jon Caramanica

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04.22.11
The brash and nasty sound of the south
2005 | Label: 8 Ways / Entertainment One Distribution

On Top Of The World, the duo's second album, was brash and nasty, from the distorted-perspective album art to "Space Age Pimpin'," a slow-jam seduction that, on this fifth album, became a full-blown concept, at least in title. Truth is, this is one of the duo's most aggressive and musically vivid albums. "Buck Bounce" has one of the great Southern rap beats of all-time, a series of hollow cracks and pops that sound like they could have been pulled from a minimal techno — or maybe a sound art — record. And songs like "Collard Greens" and "Pimp Hard" show that, almost a decade after their debut, the prides of Orange mound, Tennessee, were as vicious as ever. Additionally, this was the first major-label album also issued in an official chopped-and-screwed version.

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After the thoughtful reflection of In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1999), which had cast Eightball & MJG as been-there, done-that Southern rap sages and earned widespread acclaim in the process, the duo responded with the lighthearted Space Age 4 Eva. This album, Eightball & MJG’s first non-Suave House release, returns to the space-age pimping that had been the duo’s stock-in-trade for years. The club-orientated tracks stand out, particularly the Swizz Beatz-produced “At the Club” and the DJ Quik-produced “Buck Bounce,” both of which pair Eightball & MJG with non-Southern big-name producers for the first time. Elsewhere, a pair of Jazze Pha productions also stand out, the meditative “Thingz” and the aggressive “Pimp Hard,” as do the celebratory title track and the intense album-closer, “Thank God.” While these individual moments feature some of the best production work of Eightball & MJG’s career to date, the album itself as a whole plays like a mishmash, more a collection of big-name producer collaborations than a cohesive whole, which many of the duo’s previous albums had been. – Jason Birchmeier

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