Album Reviews : VARIOUS ARTISTS, ** 1/2 “Tales From the Hood”, <i> MCA</i>
This uneven soundtrack was created for a movie that’s a series of macabre tales dealing with street life meeting the afterlife.
It starts off with a boom-box bang--with Wu-Tang Clan pummeling your ears on the searing “Let Me at Them.” Face Mob and Scarface continue the tension with their brooding, death-knell offering, as do teen rappers Havoc & Prodeje on the gut-wrenching “Hood Got Me Feelin’ the Pain.”
But then the soundtrack loses steam with MC Eiht’s surprisingly lackluster performance and Domino’s limp title track, which proves a slow, simple groove is no longer a recipe for success.
Albums are rated on a scale of one star (poor), two stars (fair), three stars (good) and four stars (excellent).
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