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Lil' Flip Album - U Gotta Feel Me
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Release Date:2004-01-01
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Type:Album
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Genre:Hip-Hop/Rap, Dirty South, Hardcore Rap
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Label:Sony Urban/Sucka Free/Columbia
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:827969073827
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Review - Yahoo! Music - Dan Leroy :
Like many of his fellow self-made Southerners, Lil’ Flip has hip-hop hustle impossible to knock. The Houston native and protege of the late DJ Screw is building a business empire just out of his teens, and his third major label outing is a reasonable, drawled demand for acknowledgment. Except that these two discs lose sight of what made “Da Freestyle King” more than just a regional novelty, spreading the musicianship and occasionally levelheaded lyrics of his last effort, Undaground Legend, even thinner amidst blinging bluster that confirms Flip’s boast, “I take 15 minutes to drop a track.” Even the presence of Ludacris, on the crunkified “Bring the Pain,” and Cam’ron (“All I Know”) can’t give those tossed-off tunes an extra dimension, so U Gotta Feel Me stays most interesting at the margins: the sweet soul “Sunshine,” which declares “I’ll treat you like milk/I’ll do nothin’ but spoil you,” and, at the other extreme, the chopped and screwed remix of “Dem Boyz,” a link to Flip’s underground lineage, its beats ominously slowed and suspended in cough syrup. You can certainly feel such diversions–they just can’t carry this overloaded, underwritten double album.Review - AMG :
Having left the underground in his wake, Lil' Flip gets a little ambitious by making his third solo album a double-disc set. Though the two discs combined only add up to an hour and a half worth of music (admittedly just ten minutes more than a filled-out single disc), he still doesn't deliver enough hot material to warrant the move. Two remarkable guest appearances prior to this -- on David Banner's "Like a Pimp" and Fam-Lay's "Rock 'n Roll" -- raised the level of anticipation for the set considerably. Though a good chunk of what's here could've been sacrificed, Flip more or less delivers. The blip-filled, Fury-produced "Game Over" ranks with his best tracks to date, and even without it, the hit-to-miss ratio is favorable. DJ Paul and Juicy J, Play-n-Skillz, Carl So-Lowe, the Heatmakerz, and the Legendary Red Spyda contribute beats; Pastor Troy, Ludacris, and the Diplomats provide guest verses. Flip isn't really saying anything that he hasn't said before, but his skills have improved greatly since his status as a local phenomenon. Having to bounce between two discs is undeniably problematic, though. When you reach the only track involving David Banner, at the very end of the second disc, it's like discovering the prize at the bottom of a Lucky Charms box. [The album was also made available in a clean version.] ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
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