What do people think of Chamillionaire's "The Sound of Revenge"?

"seeing as i just got into him last night because of his very good interview w/ respected music journalist and swell cat tom breihan."

I think the album is really quite boring. He's constantly lashing out at 'haters' etc. and just sounds really bitter, it's more one-note than Mike Jones. Its really more disappointing than anything, because his stuff on "Get Ya Mind Correct" is so good.

review is up next week.

His delivery is maybe not the most mind-blowing, but he's got plenty of good lines and almost every song has a distinct theme or POV so it's not just a bunch of tracks about nothing but candy-paint and grippin grain all running together like the (still-good) Paul Wall or Bun B.

The best thing about it though is the hooks - I liken Cham to 50 Cent in terms of having memorable, catchily sung hooks on most of his songs - ex. "Southern Takeover," "Turn it Up" and especially "Radio Interruption," which I listened to like 5 times in a row after the first time I heard it.

I MIGHT PULL MY CASH OUT AND MAKE U WANNA PASS OUT/CAUSE I GET MORE GREEN THAN A LEPRACHAUN IN A GRASS HOUSE

so good... except: what album are these lyrics from? i just have a bunch of random cham tracks and verses from smokingsection (which is great, by the way).

also, i totally hear the 50 cent connection, which actually turns me off a bit.

but Chamillion is the shit. as far as I'm concerned, the best rapper alive --- maybe not in terms of personality or backstory or overall vision (all that shit's important) ---

but just in terms of pure rapping ---- just the way he lines up syllables and the grace/intricacy with which he fucks with them -- sound and meaning both ----

I mean obviously no one's heard everyone but I've never heard anyone better.

and he knows it and kind of backed himself into a corner thinking he'd fight his way out with pure skill ----

I started getting worried when he dropped "mixtape messiah" ------ I mean you can see why the Mike Jones phenomenon pissed him off cause Mike jones is all personality and basically zero rap skills.

and I can appreciate his desire to be serious and not be thought of as a punchline rapper --- even though his best punchlines have a lot of gravity themselves.

but there was this sense with "mixtape messiah" that he was just choking on his own bitterness ---- you still get a taste of that on "revenge"

plus it feels a little overworked ---- definitely not the definititive slap in the face to all comers he was promising but still lots of bad ass tracks.

if you're digging it check out his 2 CD greatest hits though.

but there are a lot of good tracks. fly like an eagle or whatever it's called is totally banging.

is this in reference to Cham, or to the discussion on this thread?

Tom Breihan interview focuses primarily on interviewer's favorite subject: Tom Breihan.