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Buck The World
Put Young Buck and his mentor 50 Cent together and you get a whole lot more than the artistic equivalent of an item and a half off the dollar menu. The two of them proved it on 2004's Straight Outta Ca$hville, and it holds for Buck the World, a disc that clamps itself to the G-Unit sound even while playing yo-yo with it. "Hold On," Fitty's sole contribution here, pops with the same menacing energy that informed Ca$hville, but elsewhere Buck defects from the unit (where are four-star gangstas Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo?) in favor of mostly successful team-ups with Snoop, TI, 8Ball, Lyfe Jennings and, kind of surprisingly, Ky-Mani Marley. (And that's just naming a few--clearly, Buck's phone calls are getting returned these days.) The extra-unit collaborations sound like natural enough dabblings for the sake of musical growth, especially the sizzling soul glance-back "Haters," featuring Kokane. But even though he's eased up on the G-pedal, 50's guiding principles poke up throughout: besides their hot beats, what binds these songs is authenticity. Buck may have temporarily lost sight of the corner, but he knows how to keep it real. -Tammy La Gorce
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Tracks| 1 | Push Em Back | | 2 | Say It To My Face feat. 8Ball & MJG and Bun | | 3 | Buss Yo' Head | | 4 | I Ain't F******* Wit U! feat. Snoop & Trick Daddy | | 5 | Get Buck | | 6 | Buck The World feat. Lyfe | | 7 | Slow Ya Roll feat. Chester Bennington | | 8 | Hold On feat. 50 Cent | | 9 | Pocket Full Of Paper feat. Young Jeezy | | 10 | Haters feat. Kokane | | 11 | U Ain't Goin Nowhere feat. Latoiya Williams | | 12 | Money Good | | 13 | Puff Puff Pass feat. Ky-Mani Marley | | 14 | Clean Up Man | | 15 | 4 Kings feat. TI, Young Jeezy & Pimp C | | 16 | I Know You Want Me feat. Jazze Pha | | 17 | Lose My Mind |
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