Where do you start when it comes to an artist like Chingy? He breezed on to the scene with a mammoth club banger, 'Right Thurr' and a multi-platinum selling album 'Jackpot'. Both were under the watchful eye of Ludacris until the St. Louis native decided he could roll out on his own.
His second album 'Powerballin’' flopped by his standards, as did the single 'Balla Baby', and then from that moment on it all went Pete Tong. Back with his third effort, the double r spitter seems to have fallen short yet again. Splitting the album up between ‘Hood Side’ and ‘Star Side’ (Didn’t Jay-Z do an album like that?), Chingy’s pointless rhymes about girls bouncing their asses “Bounce That' and 'Ass N Da Aurr' do nothing to capture the imagination of music lovers. Okay, so maybe they’re designed for the club. After all southern artists are renowned for their incredible club joints. This album doesn’t contain any of them. Chingy did however do a few things right, and the first was hiring the Oscar-winning talents of Three-6-Mafia for the album’s best cut, 'Club Getting’ Crowded'. DJ Paul & Juicy J hooked the boy up good. There’s also the uplifting joint 'Cadillac Door' where the CEO of Slot-A-Lot records compares life’s hardships to a car door, and you can’t really fault the Timbaland-produced 'Let Me Luv U'.
Lacking in good direction is all that’s hurting Chingy’s chances to truly excel. Halfway between trash and tidy is the point where 'Hoodstar' resides.
His second album 'Powerballin’' flopped by his standards, as did the single 'Balla Baby', and then from that moment on it all went Pete Tong. Back with his third effort, the double r spitter seems to have fallen short yet again. Splitting the album up between ‘Hood Side’ and ‘Star Side’ (Didn’t Jay-Z do an album like that?), Chingy’s pointless rhymes about girls bouncing their asses “Bounce That' and 'Ass N Da Aurr' do nothing to capture the imagination of music lovers. Okay, so maybe they’re designed for the club. After all southern artists are renowned for their incredible club joints. This album doesn’t contain any of them. Chingy did however do a few things right, and the first was hiring the Oscar-winning talents of Three-6-Mafia for the album’s best cut, 'Club Getting’ Crowded'. DJ Paul & Juicy J hooked the boy up good. There’s also the uplifting joint 'Cadillac Door' where the CEO of Slot-A-Lot records compares life’s hardships to a car door, and you can’t really fault the Timbaland-produced 'Let Me Luv U'.
Lacking in good direction is all that’s hurting Chingy’s chances to truly excel. Halfway between trash and tidy is the point where 'Hoodstar' resides.
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