Comments on: Slaughterhouse: Slaughterhouse

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:28:34 +0000

After almost one year after it’s release the album still sounds good. Still has that “mixtape” flow/formula to it, but it holds up in terms of freshness after not listening to it for about six months or so (or at least it seems that long).

By: Deez

Deez — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:48:50 +0000

lol the cover is kinda cheesy

By: C-Villain

C-Villain — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:23:47 +0000

royce and crooked are dope they rest fall a little short i think personally. Album cover is kinda lame too but i enjoy the album

By: Victor

Victor — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:46:31 +0000

Not knocking the rating system as it is always difficult, especially with multiple reviewers!

By: Deez

Deez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:58:43 +0000

OMG…

this is why you shouldn’t do 5 things at once.. thanks M

By: Maniac

Maniac — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:57:44 +0000

thanks, thomas.

@ deez: you wrote on “Microphone” it is alchemist’s voice, but the twitter message is from evidence, i.e. it’s his voice.

By: Deez

Deez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:47:11 +0000

word up
“Respectively” acts as the “indicator”

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:45:46 +0000

@Maniac: Enter Slaughterhouse. Royce Da 5’9, Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, and Crooked I: a prime emcee with leadership quality, a multi-facet wordsmith with fire in his belly, an ambitious, rugged newcomer, and a savvy and seasoned veteran respectively.”

The order of who he is describing is in the previous sentence. Royce= leadership, Joey= wordsmith, Joell= newcomer, Crooked I=seasoned veteran.

By: Maniac

Maniac — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:41:35 +0000

“a prime emcee with leadership quality, a multi-facet wordsmith with fire in his belly, an ambitious, rugged newcomer, and a savvy and seasoned veteran respectively”
and who is who? i really can’t figure it exactly out.

“2009 Producer of the Year candidate, DJ Khalil”

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:14:31 +0000

I like this album, I’m pretty surprised that Deez rated this album that high. IMO this LP may be rated just a little bit lower, but I’m not really mad at the score. “The One” is dope also, boo you if you don’t like it. I do agree with some of y’all points though, it’s really the only complaint that I have with the album. It’s pretty much what all of the fans expected… I would have loved to see some more insightful tracks or story tracks. Even tracks with an overall idea, like “The One”. I enjoy tracks like “Onslaught 2″, where Royce spits “fuck a direction, just spazz out,” but I’d like to hear a bit more variety and less “spazzing” out. (See “Microphone, Sound Off, Killaz, Lyrical Murderers, etc.) As stated before, I enjoy those tracks I just think the album could have had a few less of these types of tracks. I’ll still take the album for what it is, and I’ve been giving it a lot of spins. I’d give this album somewhere between 80-84 for me. Can’t wait for the next album, hopefully they take their time with the project and come up with some original ideas.

By: Deez

Deez — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:16:05 +0000

I hope our readers read more than the scores.

a matching 87 doesn’t mean much really. I hate scoring, but I feel like it’s necessary at times to kind of compress the feeling of the review as a whole. So take it for what it’s worth. In fact, I don’t really know any writers that like scoring.

And there’s a lot to say about this album. I could’ve written another page

By: Admbmb

Admbmb — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:15:23 +0000

The next album needs Marco Polo, Illmind, and Jake One on production. Actually, it would be great if Marco Polo just did the whole thing as long as all the tracks are in the vein of Double Barrel.

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:16:22 +0000

I think they should have more time on their next lp and it will be improved as a result. For the time they had though it is a very good album. I couldn’t give it an 87 though as it does have a fair share of flaws. I’d prolly give it an 8.

Joell went in most definitely, but there were a few suspect metaphors “too many dudes ribbit but never leave lillys” hmmm. Royce did sound bored in comparison to his form last year. But he wasnt poor either, particularly on Sound Off, him and Joell steal the show.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:37:21 +0000

With my comments I still think the album is dope….just for them spittin. Those things that I mention just seem like some more of a mixtape. I think the album not being “organic” is a good way to put it. There wasn’t a chemistry about the album per se…but you can’t get chemistry with a group of men during a four month span and only 1-2 weeks worth of recording.

Again, I still think this album is one of the better ones this year…even with its flaws. I thought Royce sounded bored at times.

Plus, is it only me…but does this sound like a Joe Budden album featuring….? I know (or at least think) Joey did a lot of A&R’ing on this project even if it was in the background.

By: BoogieFan

BoogieFan — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:42:52 +0000

I thought the album was really good with a few downsides, but nobody said it was a perfect album either. Overall, good review by Sean, Royce could get more props but it’s all good.

By: Charity

Charity — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:22:23 +0000

Can I write reviews of Deez’s reviews?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:00:41 +0000

For the record, Sean Deez reviewed Slaughterhouse and Freddie C reviewed OB4CL2. Two different reviewers, thus two different opinions so it’s tough to compare the score of this review to that one. Personally, I’m one that loves the Slaughterhouse album (minus the skits). I bought both this and OB4CL2, but I probably bump this one more…. just a preference.

By: Tommylux

Tommylux — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:41:27 +0000

Hold on – this gets an 87, which happens to be the same score you gave to Rae? I’m not hating on Slaughtahouse, it’s definitely a dope album, but it can’t be that nice, or I’d have bought it after listening to it, which I didn’t and God knows I buy waaay too many records, sometimes just because I really like but one song. Slaughtahouse is nice indeed, but there’s nothing special about this album, no particular mood, no real cohesion, no outstanding topics, no beats that make your spine chill… Honestly, this is an album that a lot of other cats could easily have made, and even though the emcees are top league, they should not be overrated to the point that you’d love their stuff regardless, even if the beats aren’t outstanding. And – nut this is but my personal opinion – the only emcee in the group that is untouchable is Royce I can think of gazillions of other pairings that would be much more of a “supergroup” than these four. Maybe I’m just being blind or sleeping – as it sometimes happens – but I really haven’t been feeling all this hype about Slaughtahouse lately; the album certainly doesn’t justify it

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:40:25 +0000

Yeah I didn’t wanna go through it all again but you put it perfectly Thomas. We talked about it when it first leaked. If it was a mixtape, I’d be impressed but it’s not. The album was formula based, not organic. Every emcee doesn’t have to be on every song and there were almost in the same order every time like you mentioned. And it still bothers me that this rush of fans came in acting like they were saving hip hop somehow and have paid attention to anything good that’s been dropping.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:18:13 +0000

I think the album is pretty good. I’ve talked about this before (and Justin as well I think) that the album seems to have a mixtape flow to it. I would have love to seen more back and forth rhyming together like Joey and Joell did at the end of “The One.” Another thing was why did every rapper have to rap on every song (Joey did the hook on “Pray”)? It was a formula Royce, Crook, Joell, Joey (for most of the album). Kinda made it predictable in a sense.

With that said if you into lyrics…this is the album for you. I think Joell is by far the most gifted on the album from start to finish, but all of them bring it.

ALC didn’t sample Rakim’s voice. Its Evidence saying “Microphone”
http://twitter.com/MrEvidence/status/3137290925