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DEREK K. SCOTT Staff Writer
NO WAY OUT Puff Daddy & the Family W
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i/j (out of five stars)
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^ Out by Puff Daddy & The Family, sim- P
w ply because the joint stanKs.
Puffys horrible perpetration of the
hip-hop culture has gone too far. If you're '
looking for original beats and dope MC's, v >
don't pick up a copy of this mediocre project
that will just upset the listener song title
after song.? WC,
And after being a personal victim of
Putty's hip-hop brutality, I wondered what
would be worse?a freestyle session with 1
Rampage, Master P, and Puff Daddy, or inch
being forced to watch the USC football You'
0 team attempt to play on the same field Tho;
with the Florida Gators. Bro\
Puff Daddy is known in the business out>
as Mr. Billboard, producing multi-plat- J
inum hits for artists such as the Notori- Nob
ous B.I.G., New Edition, SWV and Mari- turi
ah Carey, not as an MC. and
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With lines like, im the macaroni with '
the cheese" on the song "Been Around SP?
The World," featuring his version of "boy
wonder," Mase, and a hook that samples is th
^ Lisa Stansfield's early Ws hit of the same per<
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re Doing," Ginuwine, Twista and Carl ^
mas on "Is This the End?" and Foxy
vn on "Friend," should have been left
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the hook done by Busta Rhymes,
the verses by newcomer Black Rob the
[ Love You Baby," are the only bright of 1
s on this project. a n
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and Black Rob. Master's Degree in self
.^^1% will be multi-plat- pity and everything else
k]diT * hium. pie horribly depressed.
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there's no way from the more energetic,
d Boy can compare with Boot Camp mar (energetic for Mc
elter Skelter, Cocoa Brovaz, O.G.C., Apparently, his lonj
ckshot, etc.), Wu-Tang (Method Man, brought on by lis ex-Sm
ostface, RZA, etc.), or even The Firm only sunk bim into the
is, AZ, Foxy Brown and Nature), turn- siori( but has made bim
[ Bad Boy's platinum status to multi- This notion is apparen
iminum. Come in the End."
After hearing No Way Out, I just Rather than singi
nted to get out and get a shot of real speaks, while ominous \
)-hop. When you need an R&B pro- create tension and dran
cer, Puff Daddy is the answer. mates, "You pleaded a
However, when it comes to gripping you think you've won
! steel and blessing a packed house lull come/to you in the end.
xwt and blunted "heads," Puffy's still In ^ ?M0re You Igr
aajor question. er j Get"-sounding first s
Do yourself a favor and don't pick up ters," Moz seems to be
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adjustment. He sings, "So, the choice I
I have made/may seem strange to
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f J Ironically, the most up-beat, pop-sounding
song on the album is the darkest lyri0^
cal song, "Satan Rejected My Soul." Hopelessly
looking for "somewhere else to go," Albei
noBH Moz finds that even "Satan rejected [his] Room
soul." As Morrissey points out, "As low
as he (Satan) goes/he never quite goes . Sour
this low."
? As one can tell by some of the lyrics, a
?sey (Mercury) Morrissey seems to be somewhat more (Myrtle
depressed and bitter. For Moz fans it
comes as no surprise. ,
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Drrissey's seventh What may be a surprise is that lfs one Specia
1 a long-awaited ?fhis best efforts since 1992*3 catchy, Your pa
destruction, self- Arsenal.
} that makes peo- # Hie album has diverse sounding songs. # Fion
Moz fans will be glad to hear their prince c0ie?e
ting his latest al- ?f sadness has not jumped on the electric
lis solo efforts in bandwagon. # Eltoi
ep down in hope The sound of Maladjusted seems al- ? ,.
Southpaw Gram- most like a compilation of sounds from 0 eu
irrissey, that is), previous works.
I drawn-out case They jump around from the faster rrg
ith mates has not and catchy, like "Alma Matters," "Am- climax
of depres- . munition," and "Satan Rejected My Soul,"
angry and bitter, to the piano bar sounding, "Trouble Loves msDl
t in "Sorrow Will Me," to the acoustic introductory, "Papa Enter;
Jade," to the finally dramatic, "Ambitious Pillshm
ng his pain, he Outsiders," and "Maladjusted." and y0i
iolins and strings Maladjusted is not for everyone. The rules, c
ta. He tells his ex- depressed and glum may*benefit from Or pick
nd squealed/and Moz's latest effort. They might feel con- details r
/but sorrow will soled by Morrissey's self-imposed, con- www.h
fessional eternal depression.
tore Me, The Clos- In summary, it's a wonderfully di- Open ?
ingle, "Alma Mat- verse album as far as the music is con- R ,
defensive about cerned. The lyrics, however, could not be 0
icized and maybe sadder. * comedy
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