Baller Blockin Cash Money Millionaires

Baller Blockin

1	Intro 4:25
2	Baller Blockin / Baby 4:40
3	Family Affair 4:50
4	Rover Truck 3:29
5	Skit / Big Chief 0:52
6	Project B! #$H / Baby 4:41
7	Ballin' G's / 8Ball 4:21
8	Thugged Out 4:26
9	Don't Cry 4:37
10	What You Gonna Do / Braveharts 4:55
11	Calling Me Killer 4:21
12	I Got to Go 3:32
13	Whatever / Baby 4:45
14	Let Us Stunt / Big Tymers 3:48
15	Skit 0:37
16	Milk and Honey / Comrades 4:34
17	Uptown / Turk 4:08
18	I Don't Know 3:53
19	Win or Lose 3:55

Barnes & Noble

Cash Money Millionaires Juvenile, B.G., Lil' Wayne, Young Turk, Mannie Fresh, and Bryan "Baby" Williams have already taken Southern hip-hop to new heights with the crossover hits "Back That Azz Up" (Juvenile) and "Bling Bling" (B.G.) -- now the good ole' boys have their sights set on the silver screen with the straight-to-video film Baller Blockin'. Produced by Mannie Fresh and Stormy Day, the soundtrack delivers bass-heavy, blues-infused instrumentation as the backdrop for the clique's typical ghetto-fabulous odes to designer threads, fast women, and clockin' dollars. B.G.'s drawled bellow bubbles through the slow broil of "Thugged Out," which laments the less glamorous side of gangsta life. On "Project B***h," Fresh lays down a cartoonishly horn-ridden track, over which the Big Tymers, Lil' Wayne, and Juvenile pay homage to all the hood rats they've loved before. Baller Blockin' also features appearances by hot boys such as Nelly, Nas, Capone-N-Noreaga, and E-40. Other highlights include Wesside riders Mack 10 and TQ, who provide introspective commentary on hustling, respectively on "Milk & Honey" and "I Gotta Go." As the DMX and Nas vehicle Belly attested, hip-hop movies are often hit or miss. But even if the films are disappointing, entertaining soundtracks such as Baller Blockin' offer fans plenty of bang for their buck. Neo Brentacious

All Music Guide

The Baller Blockin' soundtrack features the Cash Money crew -- Juvenile, B.G., Turk, Lil Wayne, Big Tymers -- along with a cast of other well-known rappers that specialize in the same sort of affluent gangsta ballin' -- E-40, UGK, Eightball & MJG, Nas, Mack 10, Rappin' 4 Tay. Though it would be wonderful to hear all these non-Cash Money rappers spewing their rhymes over Mannie Fresh's bounce beats, it doesn't happen. But at least half of the album features some of Fresh's best production work yet, with the other tracks being crafted by an adequate stable of other producers. This integration of non-Cash Money rapping and production actually works in the album's favor. Where past albums such as Tha G Code and I Got That Work became a bit over-saturated with Fresh's trademark beats and the Cash Money crew's excessive "bling, bling," "ice," and "stunna" talk, the non-Cash Money tracks here bring the much needed sense of variety that these aforementioned albums lacked. Though Nas and Mack 10 do seem like the East and West Coast's Cash Money equivalent, their distinct rapping style, stance, and production motifs function as nice sabbaticals, providing the sort of perspective that makes one realize how unique the Cash Money aesthetic really is. As always, there is the obvious single on this album, "Baller Blockin," along with a few other songs that could just as easily be seen as hit singles -- Juvenile's "Rover Truck," Big Tymers' "Let Us Stunt," Eightball & MJG's "Ballin' Gs" -- as well as a few songs that are worth repeated listens -- BG's "Thugged Out," Nas' "What You Gonna Do." What really seems out of place here are the two Unplugged contributions, which are essentially Cash Money's take on R&B as produced by Stormy Day. Of course, with such a broad palette of styles, there are going to be a few tracks worth skipping, but this album's variety seems preferable to Cash Money's usual gluttonous dose of overabundance. Jason Birchmeier