M.O.P. "Firing Squad"

Posted on 10.22.1996

M.O.P.
Album : Firing Squad
Release Date : October 22, 1996
Label : Relativity

customer review :
First time I heard M.O.P. was on there second album "Firing Squad" (1996). The duo of Lil’Fame & Billy Danzenie delivered a solid album full of hardcore tracks. DJ Premier and Big Jaz’s production contributions to this album are memorable. Backed by a sick piano beat, M.O.P. rip up the grimey title track "Firing Squad", followed up by the deadly "New Jack City". Next Rap legend Kool G Rap drops in for a rugged collabration on "Stick To Ya Gunz" another sick track. "Anticipation" embodies part of KRS-One’s "MC’s Act Like They Know" and is another blazing track. M.O.P. represent on "Born to Kill" love the keyboards to this one.

Big Jaz’s beat to "World Famous" was reused last year on Scarface’s hit single "My Block", its a sick beat and I like the M.O.P. version. On "Lifestyles of a Ghetto Child" and "Illside of Town" M.O.P. deliver dark hardcore tracks of Murder, loyalty and survival. The next cut "Nothin 2 Lose" is outstanding, M.O.P. get more personal talking about themselves, fallen friends and family, jail and the streets. "Dead & Gone" is another standout, sampling portions of Curtis Mayfields "Let’s Do It Again" and featuring background vocals from Battle, Tanya Ray and La Shonda Middleton, M.O.P. pay tribute to fallen friends while addressing death and the afterlife. Album closes off well with "Born 2 Kill" (Jazz Mix). M.O.P. deliver genuine grimey streetlife music with "Firing Squad" an album I would recommend to anyone who enjoy hardcore Hip Hop.

Tracklisting :
1. Intro
2. Firing Squad (Skit)
3. Firing Squad
4. New Jack City
5. Stick to Ya Gunz
6. Anticipation
7. Born 2 Kill
8. Brownsville
9. Salute
10. World Famous
11. Downtown Swinga (’96)
12. Lifestyles of a Ghetto Child
13. Revolution
14. Illside of Town
15. Nothin’ 2 Lose
16. Dedication
17. Dead and Gone
18. Born 2 Kill (Jazz Mix)

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