Ok...Class, come on now u got to back me up on this one!
Has anybody here heard Pastor Troy's album "Face Off" (NOT Face Off pt2, the original from 2000)?
Man, this has got to be one of the most balanced Crunk albums ever!
I've had the album since it came out but I've just recently picked it back up after disregarding it as trash 2 years ago. I went back and listened to the album on a more mature listening level then I had when I was in the 12th Grade. And I realized that I never really gave the brother a chance...Troy was really saying some real S*** on that album. When I was younger I never paid much attention to anything other than the beat (and to be honest the production is some pretty steller work) but I think Pastor Troy could have seriously gone somewhere with that style of writting! Pastor Troy is very self aware, and his lyrics may not be the most complicated, but the message is there non the less, and the power in his voice makes the honesty in the lyrics cut u deep in a powerful way. I mean, Pastor Troy is one of the founding fathers of Crunk music, he pioneered the s*** and in the process created something that was rowdy yet organized, thug but yet concious, and club friendly but at the same time something u could sit back and listen to word for word and gain something from it. He ain't no Outkast or Scarface, but hey, as far as crunk is concerned he is the closest thing to actually being profound. I soooo wish those who came after him would have followed in his foot steps instead of ruining a perfectly good style of hip hop music. And I wish Troy wouldn't have gotten so caught up in the buisness cause he could have really done somthing great eventually if he just stayed true to his orignal concept (cause "Universal Soldier" was WAAAAAAAAACK and so was "By Any Means") But I think being dropped from universal was the best thing cause now he is doing his own thing, and while Face Off pt.2 isn't great, it' better that his last two major label efforts.
Bottom Line is I think Pastor Troy in some ways is the Jay-Z or better yet the Nas of Crunk music....Who agrees?????
Has anybody here heard Pastor Troy's album "Face Off" (NOT Face Off pt2, the original from 2000)?
Man, this has got to be one of the most balanced Crunk albums ever!
I've had the album since it came out but I've just recently picked it back up after disregarding it as trash 2 years ago. I went back and listened to the album on a more mature listening level then I had when I was in the 12th Grade. And I realized that I never really gave the brother a chance...Troy was really saying some real S*** on that album. When I was younger I never paid much attention to anything other than the beat (and to be honest the production is some pretty steller work) but I think Pastor Troy could have seriously gone somewhere with that style of writting! Pastor Troy is very self aware, and his lyrics may not be the most complicated, but the message is there non the less, and the power in his voice makes the honesty in the lyrics cut u deep in a powerful way. I mean, Pastor Troy is one of the founding fathers of Crunk music, he pioneered the s*** and in the process created something that was rowdy yet organized, thug but yet concious, and club friendly but at the same time something u could sit back and listen to word for word and gain something from it. He ain't no Outkast or Scarface, but hey, as far as crunk is concerned he is the closest thing to actually being profound. I soooo wish those who came after him would have followed in his foot steps instead of ruining a perfectly good style of hip hop music. And I wish Troy wouldn't have gotten so caught up in the buisness cause he could have really done somthing great eventually if he just stayed true to his orignal concept (cause "Universal Soldier" was WAAAAAAAAACK and so was "By Any Means") But I think being dropped from universal was the best thing cause now he is doing his own thing, and while Face Off pt.2 isn't great, it' better that his last two major label efforts.
Bottom Line is I think Pastor Troy in some ways is the Jay-Z or better yet the Nas of Crunk music....Who agrees?????
