• REVIEW: Birdman, Pricele$$

    Tuesday Nov 24 12:21 PM CST posted by xxl staff

    Birdman
    Pricele$$
    Cash Money/Universal

    Beats: XL
    Lyrics: L
    Originality: M

    Birdman has certainly paid the cost to be the boss. After spending the last two decades at the helm of Cash Money Records, his fourth solo album, Pricele$$, showcases the lucrative fruits of his labor. Featuring a slew guest appearances, Birdman spends much of the disc giving himself a well-deserved pat on the back, while his new Cash Money army gets their shine on.

    Birdman stacks the deck on the album’s catchy lead single, “Money To Blow,” with the winning combination of Lil Wayne and Cash Money/Young Money upstart Drake. Then, with dynamic duo on board (again) for the bouncing “4 My Town (Play Ball),” the trio balls like they won the championship.

    However at times, Birdman manages to crash his own party. From the rock-influenced title track to the predictable T-Pain-assisted “Shinin’,” his lyrics often lean on the same formula the-artist-formerly-known-as-Baby has been using for years now: I was poor… Now I’m rich… Let’s pop bottles! Wash. Rinse. And repeat.

    Still, there’s enough here to keep the celebration going. Just check the thumping Boi-1da-produced “Mo Milly,” featuring Bun B, where Birdman boldly raps, “Black, gold, hundred mil’ off the floor/Now you know how it go.” In the middle of a recession that’s got most of the country—and Birdman’s hometown of New Orleans—strapped for cash, Pricele$$ plays out like one long champagne-drenched celebration for the #1 Stunna. —Chris Yuscavage

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    24 Comments »

    November 24th, 2009
    at 12:53 pm

    Industry Advocate says:

    XXL finally got one right!?!?! Beats are phenomenal, so are the guests. The weakest part of the album is Baby!

     

    November 24th, 2009
    at 2:31 pm

    Jugo says:

    Damn right!! I would like to get this album but i can’t stand listening to Baby rap. This dude spits nothing but hot-garbage and he almost ruins every song he is on.

     

    November 24th, 2009
    at 2:56 pm

    Vhingrhamesonyo'momma says:

    neva heard a album,neva goin to.

     

    November 24th, 2009
    at 3:52 pm

    yoprince says:

    not really a car freak, and def not feelin the corny ass red and black… but damn, what kinda whip is that on the cover?

    November 24th, 2009
    at 5:49 pm

    Ron says:

    its a bugatti veyron. one of the fastest road cars ever..
    still not gonna make me cop this album though.

     
     

    November 24th, 2009
    at 5:16 pm

    $ykotic/Don McCaine says:

    Son gave Baby an “L” for lyrics.

    HAHAHAHAHAHA I caught that…

     

    November 24th, 2009
    at 7:12 pm

    Gutter Benjamin says:

    That whip is a Bugatti. Birdman always raps about them in his songs…not sure if its his though. Costs over $1 million for the car and I think there are only about 5 in the US.

    November 25th, 2009
    at 3:50 am

    Jai Illy says: Subscribed to comments via email

    Aye nigga…. Somebody say sumin’ bout exclusive luxury whips?

    …… Hold on…. Lemme get F-A-B-O on the muhfuckin horn…

     
     

    November 24th, 2009
    at 7:16 pm

    kedordu says:

    THIS IS BABYS BEST ALBUM . AND IT DEFO PLAYS START TO FINISH .. BUT YEA BABY IS TRASH ON THE MIC WASTED ALL THE BEATS

     

    November 24th, 2009
    at 9:31 pm

    jsilva says:

    this album is horrible i downloaded this shit and feel stupid for it birdman should just put down the mic for good and stick to business

     

    November 25th, 2009
    at 12:31 am

    Nate says:

    I’ll buy the instrumental and peddle my own raps on it for fun if I didn’t have a job. It would be cool to outrap Baby on his own music.

    Gotta give it up though- he has nice cars. But why not stop rapping and just publish a car magazine or sell posters of the cars he has to preteen boys?? Most of us don’t have extra 6 figures lying around, not hating if you do but what the hell does it have to do with rap skills??

    Oh, and baby are you going to still try and fool kids into thinking that ARE/WAS a blood when you are using a cane or in a wheelchair?
    You never were, a blood, you aren’t a blood, and you aren’t ever gonna be a blood. Why don’t you and Messy Marv get over it??
    Fake ass bloods. And tell your “young Money” bitch boy Wayne that you french that you are dressing neutral now. He’ll do whatever you tell him do, “daddy”….

     

    November 25th, 2009
    at 4:10 am

    Jai Illy says: Subscribed to comments via email

    And just for the record….. This nigga right here my niggaz… THIS NIGGA RIGHT HERE (Baby/Birdman/Stunna) never ceases to amaze the fuck outta me… real shit… NO Not lyrically… But am I the only one here that can see this dirty ass nigga literally strong-arming Drake in the studio for that single… “Hey whoadie… this one right here got dat flame youngin’… tell u what I’m a do for ya… don’t even worry ’bout that next verse… that soundin like it need Stunna”

    Signing the most popular rookie in the game - $2 Million
    Re-releasing a his free mixtape - $7.99
    Watching Birdman fuck countless artists outta their shit - PRICELE$$

     

    November 25th, 2009
    at 9:08 am

    Trini Uptown says:

    he’s smart according to lil wayne he’s gon be alright as long as drake on every hook. poor guy can’t rap and still taking yall money. please don’t knock the niggaz hustle. i think he just adds a verse to say it’s his song. he not a rapper but an image and the image seems to be working. Birdman go hard (no homo). play ball, mo milly AND money to blow go VERY hard (no homo)

     

    November 25th, 2009
    at 11:25 am

    reckless says:

    Birdman is the truth and I got the album a week early and its better than carter 3 I think not baby is better than wayne he’s not a lyrikal but he’s so fuckin g wit it its like he’s speaking to me might not be a lyrikal klassik but def. A hood klassik

     

    November 25th, 2009
    at 12:54 pm

    Lewis Hegeman says:

    poison

     

    November 25th, 2009
    at 4:02 pm

    Songstar! says:

    Jai Illy…….LMAO i got a feeling you might be dead on with that one my dude.

     

    November 25th, 2009
    at 6:08 pm

    eddiesixes says:

    i wonder how many songs got him ending each line with “nigga” or “on ‘em”…by the way, how the fuck old is this nigga?

     

    November 26th, 2009
    at 3:00 am

    ChRi$ says:

    fuck cash money, new money, young money, old money,,, whatever this nigga calls his shit…this nigga is trash, garbage, and this album is NOT NEEDED in the game. corny ass mainstream cock suckaaZ.

    Lyrics: XXS
    ORIGINALITY: XXXS
    (how could anything coming from this people be original??!!)

    RAP IS IN A RECESSION!!,

    IM SICK OF THESE FUCKS…

    December 9th, 2009
    at 8:57 pm

    RD says:

    I Hear ya FUCK Lil Gayne and Baby those gay faggutz. Young Money can go die in the deepest fuckin whole there is

     
     

    November 26th, 2009
    at 3:50 pm

    tommy gunz says:

    c/s

    never heard a baby album

    never will

     

    November 26th, 2009
    at 9:27 pm

    kedordu says:

    IMAGINE IF JAY SEAN HAD THE BEST OF THESE BEATS .. OR IF GUDDA OR EVEN TYGA HAD THESE BEATS ON THIS ALBUM ??

     

    November 26th, 2009
    at 9:28 pm

    tommy gunz says:

    and real shit anybody coppin a drake album is either a 14 year old female or on some fag shit…cmon son

     

    November 29th, 2009
    at 1:22 pm

    Giggaleezy says:

    This go haaaaaaaaard
    Brrrrrrr
    Waaaaavvvvvvy

     

    November 30th, 2009
    at 1:57 pm

    DUDE says: Subscribed to comments via email

    MAN EVERYBODY BROKE….NO ONE WANTS 2 HEAR HOW MUCH MONEY THIS CLOWN HAS….HE BETTER NOT COME 2 NORTHFLA…IM GONNA JACK HIS AZZ…..

     

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