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Memphis Bleek - Coming Of Age

Memphis Bleek
Coming Of Age

Rap Pages (10/99, p.147) - "...street flava and tight hooks....COMING OF AGE and Memph Bleek seem anything but bleak." - Rating: B
The Source (9/99, pp.304-6) - 3 mics (out of 5) - "...[proves] that Bleek has indeed stepped out of his mentor's shadow to become his own MC....COMING OF AGE comes off as an extremely promising debut, showcasing Bleek's potential..."
Q Magazine (11/99, p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...raps as hard as they come about the ghetto gang world....he does have a strange ear for adornment of basic rhythm-track earquake....Even so, non-thugs need not apply."
Entertainment Weekly (9/3/99, p.71) - "...[Bleek's] totally thugged-out debut....the ominous inner-city symphonies
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and raw street beats backing him...[are] of such fresh vintage they don't need age." - Rating: B+

TWO STARS
Ja Rule
Venni Vetti Vecci
Murder Inc./Def Jam
1999

Hip-hop has growing pains at the top these days, just as modern rock did after grunge conquered the world. Underground crews like Rawkus and Quannum overplay the integrity card, while the hardcore crowd keeps flogging the street shtick. (Those who can, pimp; those who can't, rap; those who can't rap -- well, thanks for the memories, Mase.) As stars like Puffy and Busta deal with their own offstage meshugas, things aren't any sturdier on hip-hop's pop front. Last year's jigmaster, Will Smith, sounds like Wee Willie in his new Wild Wild West theme, recycling Stevie Wonder gutlessly enough to bring back memories of Michael J. Fox covering "Johnny B. Goode" in Back to the Future. It's hip-hop as the blandly reverent background music that rappers once rebelled against -- the land that rhyme forgot.

Jay-Z is the great Brooklyn hope of this moment, a master of street bluff and pop bounce, and no wonder he can terrify the heads just by kicking around retirement talk. He sounds like he's wearing a WHAT WOULD BIGGIE DO? T-shirt, but Jigga lives up to the B.I.G. legacy; his place in hip-hop's Cooperstown is already secure. So all eyes are on his homeys Memphis Bleek and Ja Rule -- you might think of their records as In Jay-Z's Lifetime: The Next Jiggaration. Bleek, unfortunately, has nothing to say and isn't even clever about it. When an album begins with a GoodFellas monologue, you know it's time to adjust the cliche filters on your speakers, but Bleek's playa boasts are beyond silly ("My steak got A-1," he notes proudly in "Why U Wanna Hate"), and his producers know better than to waste quality beats here. Coming of Age illustrates the pitfalls for today's hardcore rappers, as Bleek keeps tumbling into them. "I laugh at y'all/Flash cash at y'all" -- oh, Bleek, I bet you say that to all the bitches!

Ja Rule, on the other hand, gets some flesh and blood onto Venni Vetti Vecci. You know his voice from his cameo on Jay-Z's "Can I Get a . . .," a dash of pepper to flavor the track's cold electronica gazpacho. Ja gets maximum flossage out of his down-and-dirty Queens rasp; he makes DMX sound like El DeBarge, choking on the fumes from a blunt rolled in sandpaper. He's got a way with a one-liner, boasting "a flow like sodomy" -- you have to admit you haven't heard that one before. He's also an apparently devout Christian, and his religious conflicts make Venni intense, even when the tracks get generic. After all, nothing heats up a crime story like a passionate sense of sin; it's the difference between Scorsese and a Chuck Norris movie.

Ja begins with a field-holler spiritual, begging the Lord for relie

Artist	Title	Condition	Format	Price USD [Change]	Seller	Location
Bleek Memphis	Coming Of Age Rcfa538991.2 new Copy/ Barcode: 731453899124 Releasedate: 8-3-1999 Style:rap & Hip-hop Ti... Special Order		CD	$28.57	CDExpress	Netherl
Bleek,memphis	Coming Of Age The Debut Album From The Artist Who Describes Himself As 'a New Improved Jay-z'/.	New	CD	$13.36	CDQuest	USA
Memphis Bleek	Comin Of Age Pain In Da Ass Intro [], Whos Sleeping Ft. Reb Of D.i.d.r. [], Memphis Bleek Is [], What You Thin...		2LP	$28.70	Da Source	Germany
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age Hole Usa, Roc-a-fella, 314 538 991-2, 1999	NM	CD	$6.00	Cd Depot	USA
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age Usa, Roc A Fella, 314 538 991-2, 1999	ps/hic	CD	$8.25	Black Rhythm	Netherl
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Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age Cd. Release Date: 08/03/1999. Us, Pisl, 731453899124, 08/03/1999	NEW	CD	$13.86	SilverDisc	USA
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age		CD	$17.24	Action	UK
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Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age M43550 vinyl-2lp Condition: Mint Barcode: - Year:' Title: Coming Of Age Style: Pop - Rock Special Order		LP	$25.70	CDExpress	Netherl
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Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age Us, Roc-a-fella Records, 314 538 991-1, 1999	C:NM,M:EX	2LP	$8.73	recordsale	Germany
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age Label: Def Jam, Published: 1999 Promo![victor] Us, Def Jam, Def 347-1, 1999	C:NM,M:NM	2LP	$24.12	recordsale	Germany
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age		2LP	$10.77 - $11.48	Record Inspe	Austria
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Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age P Usa, Def Soul	NM	2LP	$13.25	IntDj	USA
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age - Pain In Da As Intro, Who's Sleeping, Memphis Bleek Is…, What You Think Of That, M**a 4 Life...	VG+/VG+	2LP	$15.98	BeatStreetRe	UK
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Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age Usa, Roc-a-fella/def Jam, 347, 1999	wl,promo	2LP	$26.41	Black Rhythm	Netherl
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Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age (ft. Jay-z, Ja Rule, Ecc.) Cd Roc-a-fella	NEW	CD	$25.58	Musica Music	Italy
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age (promo) In Stock. Shipped Within 24 Hours. Confirmation Email After Shipping. Number Of Media (discs, Tap...	used/gebra	2LP	$7.16	Total Recall	Germany
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Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age - - Def Jam	VG+/VG+	LP	$158.70	F-seventies	France
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age - 5 Track Sampler		CDsingle	$3.45	Action	UK
Memphis Bleek	Coming Of Age - Roc A Fella	VG+/VG+	CD	$72.00	Recsim	France
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