Skull Duggery – These Wicked Streets (9-8-1998)

Posted on Sep 10 in Rapaveli Retroby adminPrint

September of 1998 was a crazy ass month for No Limit records. Master P for real dropped four CDs in like four weeks. What kind of shit that is? The second No Limit release of September 1998 was Skull Duggery’s These Wicked Streets. I couldn’t buy this CD because I was like 13 with no money and P had already taken enough of my hard earned grass cutting money for the summer. Ten years later I was finally able to find this CD on the Internet and I’m pretty glad that I did. Well actually I stole just the disk from someday in high school so I already had it, I just happen to be really anal about CD cases. I need them!

Is it strange to anyone else that Master P made the song “Where You From” about a good ten times through out the No Limit days. I swear it was the last song on Snoop’s The Last Meal. “If It Don’t Make $$$” is one of my favorite songs of all time. I love the way the beat drops on it and of course you’ve got to appreciate the message behind the music. I have to be honest in saying that it’s hard to find a bad track on this disc and there’s absolutely no reason to count out the Mia X assisted “The Set Up.” Carlos  Stephens laced the Fiend assisted “Testimony” with some bass that hit your nerves harder than the scary ass lyrics that Skull kicked.

Well… actually I lied because now that I think about it“Satisfied”, “Mistakes In The Game”, and “Shakin The Streets” are all pretty crap. Skull Duggery manages to make up for things when Big Ed, Soup Bone, andShad show up on the O’Dell produced “I’m Not A Victim.” When this CD first came out the only song that I really-really liked was the supposed to be C-Murder and Silkk The Shocker assisted “If U Feel.” You may recall that neitherC-Murder nor Silkk The Shocker showed up on the track. I really appreciate how Skull took a whole track to profess his appreciation for the fans on the Carlos Stephens produced “For The Fans.”

These Wicked Streets had a whole bunch of worth while material. I must say that I wasn’t the biggest Skull Duggery fan back in the day… actually I thought he was pretty bad. This album made me appreciate him a lot more because when this album came out it was right about the time when No Limit really started to lose its musical edge. These Wicked Streets more or less defied the lack luster outcome that most of its No Limit counterparts were seeing at that time. Every track wasn’t good on here, but the ones that were good were great.