Space Age 4 Eva

1	Intro 3:44
2	I Know U 4:50
3	Thingz / Jazze Pha 5:01
4	Collard Greens 3:43
5	Pimp Shit 4:02
6	Buck Bounce / DJ Quik 4:36
7	Space Age 4 Eva / Peachee P 4:32
8	Pimp Hard 5:05
9	Boom Boom / Swizz Beatz 5:06
10	Alwayz 4:23
11	At Tha Club 5:06
12	Jankie 4:23
13	It's All Real / Billy Cook 4:51
14	Thank God / Swizz Beatz 4:40

Barnes & Noble

With their bouncy, electro-funk sound and bold gangsta tales, 8ball & MJG have been reppin' the Dirty South for years. With their 1993 debut, Comin' Out Hard, the Tennessee duo announced their pimped-out, "space age" groove and set the stage for the popularity of other countrified rappers such as Goodie Mob, OutKast, and Ludacris. Now the Southern rap forerunners are back with their fifth album, Space Age 4 Eva. Following the heavily synthesized effects and hood narratives of 1999's In Our Lifetime, Volume 1, 'Ball and G's latest is an electric guitar and drum-machine-heavy dedication to the playalistic good life. On the choppy, DJ Quik-produced "Buck Bounce" and the guitar-accented "At the Club," they rhyme mostly about girls and booze. Hot hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz puts his cartoonish signature on the party anthem "Boom Boom." The album's tightest track, however, is the nostalgic narrative "Thingz," featuring lyrics that advocate safe sex and vocals by Tiny, formerly of Xscape. With their fluid rhymes and pulsing bass lines, 8ball & MJG join rappers below the Mason-Dixon in their mission to elevate hip-hop up, up, and away from grimy urban portraits to a place where barbecues, 40-ounces, and bikini-clad women never go out of style. Abby Addis

All Music Guide

After the thoughtful reflection of In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1999), which had cast Eightball & MJG as been-there, done-that Southern rap sages and earned widespread acclaim in the process, the duo responded with the lighthearted Space Age 4 Eva. This album, Eightball & MJG's first non-Suave House release, returns to the space-age pimping that had been the duo's stock-in-trade for years. The club-orientated tracks stand out, particularly the Swizz Beatz-produced "At the Club" and the DJ Quik-produced "Buck Bounce," both of which pair Eightball & MJG with non-Southern big-name producers for the first time. Elsewhere, a pair of Jazze Pha productions also stand out, the meditative "Thingz" and the aggressive "Pimp Hard," as do the celebratory title track and the intense album-closer, "Thank God." While these individual moments feature some of the best production work of Eightball & MJG's career to date, the album itself as a whole plays like a mishmash, more a collection of big-name producer collaborations than a cohesive whole, which many of the duo's previous albums had been. Jason Birchmeier