Obie Trice, Special Reserve
Here’s XXL’s review of Obie’s collabo disc with producer MoSS…
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Obie Trice
Special Reserve
Moss Appeal Music
Beats: XL
Lyrics: XL
Originality: L
Obie Trice’s new album, Special Reserve, his first official release since leaving Eminem’s Shady Records in 2008, isn’t actually new. Rather, it’s a collection of songs recorded between 1997 and 2000 by the Detroit MC and Canadian producer and DJ Premier protégé, MoSS. Although that makes most of Special Reserve more than a decade old, it’s aged remarkably well.
From the scratched-up samples on “Welcome,” to the appropriately-titled “Got Hungry,” where Obie angrily spits, “I should have 20-inch rims on a V-12 Benz/Hangin’ with brand-new friends, all-flavored Timbs, hittin’ nothin’ but skins,” Special Reserve is short on gimmicks. Instead, it features Obie rapping his ass off about everything from death on the gloomy “You’ve Been Slaine” to survival on the hopeless “Dope Jobs Homeless.” Coupled with MoSS’s Primo-esque production style, the album is a tall shot of bare-bones boom-bap.
Of course, Obie’s pre-Shady recording isn’t without its rookie mistakes. The laughable “Jack My Dick” provides, as you might guess, way too much information about Em’s former running mate. Yet, O. Trice mixes just enough of his patented tongue-in-cheek playfulness on the self-defining “I Am” to make it easy to see why Eminem was so impressed by him at the turn of the century. Cheers to this Special Reserve. —Chris Yuscavage
When will this hit the Stores?
the fact that gucci mane got a xl makes this rating system mean nothing to me but i will be checking this cd
TODAY fools!!! In stores NOW!!
Correcto ee bubble. Gucci Mane was trash too, I listened to that whole cd, there was 2 songs I liked. This Obie album was ok, it’s definitely one you have to listen to a few times and it grows.
i second that kid pistol. The first obie was like that too. I wasn’t really sure after seeing that first single off Cheers, but I was pleasantly surprised, and OBie is good wit me
I’ve been hooked onto Obie since “Average Man” so I’m very excited for this. I haven’t heard from Obie in three years. He released a track recently and I saw it here on xxlmag and now…I’m trying to find it.
Did XXL really give Gucci an XL rating? Really?
AGREED…
“WHEN IM UP IN THE CLUB, AND THESE NIGGAS THEY WANNNA ACT TOUGH TILL THEY GET PLUGGED / WATCH THEM BULLETS GO ( / NOW YOU TOUCHED FROM A SLUG, HUGGIN THE STREETS LIKE YOU IN LOVE / YOUR HEART RACE LIKE (FLATLINE) / THE AMBULANCE ARRIVE (SIREN), THEY RUSH YOU TO THE SPLITTER FLYIN BY MY RIDE ENGINE LIKE (VVRROOMM) / HOMIE YA JUST DIED / YOUR FAMILY THROUGH CRYING, I PULLED OFF A CRIME JUST AS QUICK AS…”
I’ll be sure to check into this, i still listen to Obie’s “Cheers” album daily. I’ll most likely buy the album to support REAL HIP-HOP.
~~~FUCK GUCCI MANE~~~
AGREED…
“WHEN IM UP IN THE CLUB, AND THESE NIGGAS THEY WANNNA ACT TOUGH TILL THEY GET PLUGGED / WATCH THEM BULLETS GO (GUNSHOT) / NOW YOU TOUCHED FROM A SLUG, HUGGIN THE STREETS LIKE YOU IN LOVE / YOUR HEART RACE LIKE (FLATLINE) / THE AMBULANCE ARRIVE (SIREN), THEY RUSH YOU TO THE SPLITTER FLYIN BY MY RIDE ENGINE LIKE (VVRROOMM) / HOMIE YA JUST DIED / YOUR FAMILY THROUGH CRYING, I PULLED OFF A CRIME JUST AS QUICK AS…”
I’ll be sure to check into this, i still listen to Obie’s “Cheers” album daily. I’ll most likely buy the album to support REAL HIP-HOP.
~~~FUCK GUCCI MANE~~~
haven’t been out to get it tried on amazon and they said that shit don’t come out til january…but obie the man
You can cop it on ITUNES NOW!! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/special-reserve/id340569390
MoSS killed the production on this…hard beats x hard rhymes
SOMEBODY STOP THIS DUDE FROM GIVING REVIEWS!!!!!!!!
Special Reserve is short on gimmicks. Instead, it features Obie rapping his ass off about everything from death on the gloomy “You’ve Been Slaine” to survival on the hopeless “Dope Jobs Homeless.”
Yet originality gets only an L? Hmm…