Slaughterhouse

So my older sister had this promo music thing where she had 25 free downloads. It was about to expire so she asked me if I'd like to use it. Um, of course! However, when I went on the site they had music that was like, not this year... ahaha! I mean they had recent shit, a bunch of old shit but no (good?) new shit! But I went ahead and browsed to see what I could possibly download. I came across Slaughterhouse. Album released 8/11/09 - I thought, who are these people? Thinking they were a new rock/hip hop kinda group. I didn't even sample the music, I just went ahead and downloaded. Then I did a little research and am listening to it as I write... Slaughterhouse consists of Crooked I, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz & Royce Da 5'9". Not bad and a little grimey. Grimey, in this case, is a good thing. The first 4 tracks obviously reflect each other; go hard like underground rap battles on 8 mile. Then I get to 'The One' and it follows up it's title as I think this track is indeed "the one" of the album. I can always do without skits on an album because I think they serve as useless 'intro/track fillers' (there are 3 skits on this album, go ahead and skip thru 'em). Onslaught 2 made me wanna get up and put my hands in the air. Fatman Scoop makes me do that. I enjoyed Salute. Reminded me of something like Nappy Roots in Long Beach... Cut You Loose took me there like The One - always partial to hip hop tracks when the artist(s) are talking about their 'relationship', love & hate, w/Hip Hop...

Overall the album was worth the (blind) free download. Although I would suggest to just go thru iTunes and purchase the songs you prefer from this album and maybe not the whole thing --> Slaughterhouse on iTunes



Listen well
Be swell
And remember half the time I really 'Don't Give a Shit'

XO