TEAM RNS PRESENTS

RIPPER: thing 2 aka chocolate thunda

1hr 47min total-103.2mb

RELEASE DATE: 2004-01-27
RIP DATE: 2004-01-27

02 Kill Us All                    5:27
03 Pimp On (Featuring 8Ball and   6:22

04 Slow Jamz (Featuring Kanye     4:51
West & Jamie Foxx)
05 Overnight Celebrity            6:30
06 Still Feels So Good (Featuring 6:41

09 One Last Time                  7:40
10 So Sexy (Featuring R Kelly)    6:32
11 Higher (Featuring Ludacris)    5:50

13 Like a 24 (Featuring T.I. &    8:13

14 Hope (Featuring Cee-lo)        7:26
15 Sunshine (Featuring Anthony    6:25

16 Art & Life (Chi-Roc)           6:46
(Featuring Memphis Bleek & Young

AS REQUSTED LAME+APS VBR of this cd.

To say that motor-mouthed Twista and
producer Toxic took their time getting
Kamikaze out is an understatement.
Released nearly five years after his
last album and promoted by the rapper
since 2001, Kamikaze finally dropped in
one of the least popular months for
music buying, January. The
long-talked-about Timbaland team-up ended
up on Timbaland's album and Kamikaze's
original single, "Tattoo," landed on
Toxic and Twista's Legit Ballaz
project instead. Seems like Kamikaze is
doomed from the start, but it's actually
a fair album for two main reasons: the
new lead single, "Slow Jamz," and the
killer guest productions of Kanye West.
West is at the helm for "Slow Jamz,"
producing, singing, and delivering what
could be the couplet of 2004: "She got a
light-skinned friend look like Michael
Jackson/Got a dark-skinned friend look
like Michael Jackson." Between the
speedy Luther Vandross samples, Jamie
Foxx's verse, and West name-checking all
of the heroes of pillow-talk radio,
there's just enough room for Twista's
rapid rap. Twista's style is stunning,
doubly so for any aspiring rappers, but
for those who just listen it lacks the
depth to carry a full album on its own.
Still, his in-and-out appearances on
other artists' tracks whetted the
appetite for more, and Kamikaze delivers
past the single. "Still Feels So Good" is
a worthy sequel to Adrenaline Rush's "It
Feels So Good," "So Sexy" features a
slinky R. Kelly appearance, and "Get Me"
finds Toxic's production coming off as
cinematic where elsewhere it's just
anemic. Two slower numbers toward the
end -- the introspective "Hope" and
the Bill Withers-sampling "Sunshine" --
go a long way to expand the album's
narrow spectrum, and Twista's skills
adjust nicely to the mellow pace.
Whatever the reasons for Kamikaze's
delay, it does make for near-perfect
timing for the both stunning and limited
rapper. One album per five years,
monthly guest spots, and the occasional
brilliant single equal just the right
amount of Twista. --  David Jeffries