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ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF 1999!
Spice 1, aka Black Bossalini, drops his best album since "AmeriKKKa's Nightmare". To me all his albums are classics and can't be touched, but on "Immortalized" Spice 1 comes out with much heat and energy that some doubted he still had. His delivery is tremendous as usual and so are his gangsta thugged out lyrics. But the thing that impressed me mostly is the innovative production used on the album. Rick Rock produced almost all of it and he came out with kind of beats that were never heard before. It's just gangsta rap ON A WHOLE NEW LEVEL - some s**t you've never heard before. The only thing that bothers me are some of the featured rappers. At the beginning of the record we get appearences by Noreaga, Too $hort, Yukmouth, Saafir and Roger Troutman - and they are all do a great job next to Spice 1. But on some of the next songs you get appearences by some weak unheard-of no-name rappers which just aren't good, and of course CANNOT shine next to one of the greatest rappers in the game today. Still, Spice 1 handles the album by himself and as usual is fabulous! He even performs Ice Cube's song "You Can't Fade Me" and it comes out real nice. Another re-make is 187 Poof (2 Thougin') which is the 99 version for Spice 1's classic song 187 Proof from his debut self titled album). The album comes very close to being PERFECT. You can listen to it from the beginning to the end, track after track - you don't have to press the skip button at all trough 70 minutes. Don't listen to all those haters that diss the album. People should start recognizing Spice 1's talent, cause he's a real OG in this game and has been spitting this thug poetry for a long time. This is a masterpiece, and if it wasn't for Dre's album, "Immortalized" should be album of the year!

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Surprisingly on point.
For an album that appears to conform to all the thug cliches, this CD is pretty good. Spice 1 isn't really dropping anything most of us haven't heard lyrically speaking. As far as the production goes, I think it is top notch. All the songs have an original and futuristic feel. Rick Rock & Kirk "Kizzo" Crumpler aren't what I'd call well-known producers, but they do a really good job on the overwhelming majority of the tracks. Just cause Spice isn't bringing a whole lot of new stuff to the table, doesn't mean he's not holding his own though. My only criticisms for Spice are that sometimes he speeds his flow up a little too much and he repeats choruses a little more than necessary. Saafir, who was previously unknown to myself, puts down a good part in "Thug Poetry". I like that track a lot but Spice says the chorus a few too many times for my taste. "Killerfornia" & "Make Sure They Bleed" are two more tracks that we've all heard before but are still enjoyable. The second of the two is the usual tribute to Pac and anger towards those that are getting big off his name. As a rapper who actually did perform with Pac, maybe Spice has the right to say this. There's a couple old school tracks on the album and amazingly they don't bother me too much. I don't have any huge favorites on this CD but it does run together nicely. Keep your expectations low for this record and you'll be presently surprised when it actually is good.

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Spice seems to be getting more melodic with time. This one and The Last Dance probably have the best melodies of his. I still like 1990-sick the best though cause its sooo nasty! He really needs to come up with some new lyrics. He tends to repeat the same words and phrases A little too much on each album.