What makes it great is excellent producer and guest rapper choices, a tight track list with nearly perfect flow, and the fresh G-Unit meets crunk and Lil Jon sound that dominates the album. If that was all there was, Straight Outta Cashville would be a good record. The obligatory "how I got here" track, "Look at Me Now," is his best moment lyrically - vivid and all that - but you can drop the laser anywhere and hear more brain than boast. But with none of 50's smirk or Banks' city swagger, Buck is the one to relate to, still struggling, still hungry. Buck has been graced with 50's ability to bring street life to the CD player with that grotesque/flippant delivery.
Lyrics are often the same-old, same-old G-Unit topics - weed, the game, Tony Yayo, guns, lots and lots of money talk - but this crew has yet to present a rapper who doesn't attack these tired subjects with style and flair. Less than two months after the solo debut of his G-Unit brother Lloyd Banks, Young Buck dropped Straight Outta Cashville, another well crafted but uncompromising premiere that expands 50 Cent and crew's empire below the Mason-Dixon line.
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