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PSD / Keak Da Sneak / Messy Marv – Da Bidness (2-13-2007)

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As you may have heard for the last decade or so a mass movement has been brewing in the Bay area. Right now that movement known as hyphy is spreading across the nation through the airwaves and other forms of mass media like a Santa Monica wildfire. Bay area representatives Keak Da Sneak, Messy Marv, and PSD Tha Drivah have band together to make a one time group effort entitled Da Bidness. With Messy Marv at the forefront of Cali’s underground movement and Keak Da Sneak the acting originator of the term “hyphy” this latest effort will indeed prove to be a pivotal brick in the mainstream pyramid currently under construction in the Yay! 

The Bay area trifecta opens up the album with the breezy but gangsta banger “Reloaded” which uses a sample of Al Pacino’s infamous one liner from Carlito’s Way. Keak Da Sneak’s over the top outrageous personality cries for attention all over the aptly titled “Yee!!!!!!” while his counterpart Messy Marv however comes with a much more laid back delivery which stands out the most on the pimp tight “If She Know Me She Owe Me”. Keak does his best Donald Duck impersonation on the Droop-E laced and hyphy defined premier cut “Cus, Cus” .The Bay’s biggest icon E-40 shows up on the feel good hood joint “Gumbo Pot” then passes the torch to his eldest son Droop-E so that he can work a wealth of instrumentation into the smooth rolling “Burdens Of His Youth”. Keak Da Sneak is back to his usual animated antics on one of the album’s few solo joints “That Go”.

The majority of the collection comes off bland and unappetizing as Marv, PSD, and Keak don’t really show any chemistry on any of the album’s cuts. For an album that seems to have been cut and pasted together some of the production efforts aren’t lost in the midst of this catastrophe. Messy Marv proves that he is the MVP of the collection time after time with his never ending street savvy, while Keak Da Sneak switches from serious to cartoon all too often leaving PSD lost behind the higher caliber performances of his counterparts. For there first effort together Marv, PSD, and Keak prove that mixing ice, oil, and fire will leave each one of them with just as much unfinished business as they started with!  
 

VERDICT – 11 / 20
LYRICS: 3
PRODUCTION: 3
DELIVERY: 3
CONSISTENCY: 2

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