I wanna pack they cds up and sell 'em backSongs like 'The Eye of the Needle' show that he's not just the cocky young rapper he was on 'Cowboys' and 'I Declare War', he's older, faced struggles and it shows on the best few songs on the album.
I paid $12, just gimme $7 back
I'll even take it back to the store and get it wrapped
It's been a long time comin', I seen a lot of evil,What dissappoints about the album is that it mostly dwells in the past. Pace too easily slips into his old groove, he could almost have written some of the songs 10 years ago. Lots of the other songs are filled with reminisces, some of them work but the total effect is to make him sound old. Then there's 'The Joker', a diss of Eminem, one of his friends in the early days. He dissed him before with 'Rap Music' which was a strong track. However, 'The Joker' just makes Pace come off bitter. It's not a great note to end the album on and it stands in contrast with some of the better songs which show Pace moving on and growing. Mr Green's beats are solid but owe too much to DJ Premier and the early-mid 90s.
Felt a lot of pain, and I lost a lot of people,
Did a couple of things I really didn't need to,
Hurt a couple people that I really didn't mean to.
If I could turn time back, I would treat em regal.
Matter fact, I'd treat everybody equal.
Then my world might just be so peaceful
And I wouldn't view it through the eye of a needle.
Overall, The Only Color That Matters is Green is an album that looks back more than forward both in content and style. It's solid but it could have been much more.
Stand out tracks: 'She Can Be So Cold' (with the White Stripes), 'The Eye of the Needle', 'Hip-Hop'.
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