Categories : Music Reviews, Rap + Hip-Hop.
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Rating: 2/5 Released: August 15, 2006 Reviewer: Trent Depue |
Jamaican Dancehall star Cham (formerly Baby Cham) has proven to be far from a one hit fad or a passing phase in the music industry. To this end, his third release, Ghetto Story, once again inundates us with this tiresome musical form, popularized by Sean Paul in the late nineties.
While the title track (of which there are three different versions on the album, one featuring Alicia Keys) and ‘Rude Boy Pledge’ show lyrical hope early, but Ghetto Story soon recedes into the stereotypical subject matter of the genre; sex, drugs and alcohol. ‘Bad Boys’ is a completely ignorant attack at the responsible gentlemen (“He pays the bills, cleans the house, and fix the flooring/I’m into money ‘cause it keeps the liquor pouringâ€), while musical creativity reaches its lowest point on ‘Talk to me,’ where Cham’s primary lyrical tool is a rhyming dictionary.
With Ghetto Story, Cham provides little more than the genre suggests it should. These songs, although appropriate in small doses on the dance floor, are tiresome and repetitive when played together as an album.
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