Review by Loose Cannonz

Big Mike - The Contender 2.0

Your reason for buying this mixtape is to hear Sheek Louch dig out 50 Cent, admit it. But what's with Jadakiss and Blue rhyming over REO Speedwagon's "Keep On Loving You"? That shit is jokes kid! Gotta love the 80's man, it rules dude man bro. In all actuality, shit is pulled off. Wonder what the hood reaction to this is… You won't catch Styles P rhymin' over that shit, but you will catch him rhyming over "Still D.R.E.," and on some bootleg radio shit over that Alchemist track for Jada. Sheek picks it up over Beans and Snoop's "Don't Stop" and Stat Quo's "Like Dat." Jadakiss appears later on Yummi's "Come Get It," an alright R&B track. Using a snippet of Game from Boyz In Da Hood's "Dem Boyz" is more of that mixtape trickery bullshit. Don't tell me that's hustling, that's foolishness. A surprise from the disc is Cassidy goin' haywire on the acapella "Still On My Grind." Shit is fiaaa!! Hopefully Cass stays within the same mentality; we all know how man's personality change. Speaking of angry emcees, Prodigy lights up a Snoop classic ("Dudes wanna suck my style and pass for me"), then rhyming over the quirky G-d up "Realness" is not quite apt to his Queens stylings. Gravy and Fab rhyme over Jay-Z's "Brooklyn's Finest" and I guess you could call this the sequel. And is it just me or do all of Hell Rell's joints use the same formula? They all sound like b-movie medieval productions courtesy of the highly epic use of a Casio. Shit is lames. Remember the Wu-Syndicate? Awww mannn. Both "Get Em Daddy" an "Back You Up" have cheesy horn-sounding synths and some ghetto ass mafia raps ("these niggas wanna be Scarface, I'm with Sosa"). At least Juelz Santana's "Kill Yourself" brings a concept to the tape, as sadistic as that sounds. I think it's time for some of these mixtape "pause" deejays to either wait for GOOD material to work with (that means you ain't gotta drop 2 tapes a week), or re-up they whole style. But who am I to say, y'all gonna buy their shit anyway.

RATING SYSTEM
	Trash
	Step Ya Game Up
	Diehards only
	In the Deck
	Straight Crack
	Among Year's Best
	Mixtape Classic