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Hailing
from Nashville, Young Buck’s street-savvy
raps have already become a huge hit with
hip-hop fans across the United States. His
album’"Straight Outta Ca$hville"
was released in late August and is currently
ranked second on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop
charts. • Young-Buck.com
50
Cent, a member of G-Unit, took Young Buck
in and added him to the rap troupe after
he heard some of his songs. G-Unit also
features rappers Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo.
• Interscope Records
"Straight
Outta Ca$hville" stays true to Young
Buck’s thug life
By
Starr Balmer
Daily Forty-Niner
Contributing Writer
Young
Buck’s new album,’ "Straight
Outta Ca$hville," has already stunned
millions with its heart-throbbing baselines
and catchy hooks, as fans enjoy his outrageous
lyrics and thuggish attitude.
His
hit single, "Let Me In," has been
played all over radio stations and has been
acclaimed by fans throughout the country.
"Straight
Outta Ca$hville" is a mix of hip-hop
and dirty South and has given the 23-year-old
Nashville native a chance to rap to his
fans about his life experiences and express
how he survived in the "hood."
Buck
got the name of the CD from N.W.A.’s
album,"Straight Outta Compton."
According to an interview online rap magazine
Sixshot had with Young Buck, N.W.A.’s
"Straight Outta Compton" expressed
"who they were, where they were from
and what they were all about." This
is something Buck wanted to portray about
himself in "Straight Outta Ca$hville."
While
involved in selling narcotics in the streets,
he realized he wanted to take his freestyling
skills to the next level. At the age of
16, Buck had the opportunity to perform
for Cash Money Records’ CEO, Brian
"Baby" Williams, after hearing
that New Orleans’s Cash Money rap
crew was in the area. Because of his remarkable
performance, Williams decided to invite
Buck to join the Cash Money family.
After
a few years, Buck left Cash Money and began
selling drugs again after making little
progress with the entourage. "I came
back to the 'hood and got in those streets
and started doing whatever it took for me
to provide," Young Buck says on his
Web site. "I had lost so much time."
But
later Williams called Buck back, giving
him another invitation to join a new Cash
Money group Williams produced. After warming
the bench for a while and his short hiatus
from studio recording, he took the offer
of UTP Records member Juvenile to join his
squad, which did not promise Buck a large
chance of being known to the public.
Buck
had a better opportunity knocking at his
door, however, when he met up with 50 Cent
and his G-Unit crew while recording tracks
with Juvenile. They immediately clicked
and began freestyle sessions that led to
the hit song, "A Little Bit of Everything."
After
putting together and revising "Bloodhound",
Buck’s first track with G-Unit, 50
Cent decided to place Buck’s new track
on his "Get Rich or Die Tryin’"
album, which boosted Buck’s chances
to be known to the public. It definitely
worked, as Buck’s first debut album
is currently in stores across the country.
His
single, "Let Me In," causes his
fans to clap their hands and groove to the
beat of the track while it is played at
various clubs and parties. In that song,
Buck seemingly hints at an ongoing dispute
with Juvenile when Buck states, "I’m
a cold thug, not a hot boy."
"I
don’t have no ongoing relationship
with them," Buck said in the Sixshot
interview. "When I see them we always
show each other love. But I’m winning
and they’re doing their thing so I
shouldn’t have anything against them
and they shouldn’t have anything against
me."
Rappers
Lil’ Flip and David Banner join him
on the "Welcome to the South"
track, giving it that dirty South feel as
they describe living in the South with "gold
grills, Coupe de Villes, sittin’ on
22’s," as they go to parties
and "fight in clubs, hit the parking
lot, and start bussin’.""
G
Unit group member 50 Cent adds his two cents
on the "I’m a Soldier" track,
where he and Buck rap about the southern
atmosphere with the""Section 8
housing in the projects," and participating
in gangs as they were sportin’ the’"red
and blue." According to the Sixshot
interview, it is actually Buck’s favorite
track: "This is a song really speaking
about my life really speaking of what I
have been through."
But
Buck’s "Shorty Wanna Ride"
song is becoming popular as it has a party
groove to it and also gives that dirty South
impression. Tubas and trombones seem to
take part in the baseline of the song, similar
to what Southern rapper Trick Daddy used
in his popular track, "Shut Up."
Even
though Buck’s album expresses the
violent and gang-related activity of his
past, his CD is worth buying to listen to
with friends while driving on the freeway
or dancing at the club.
On
a scale of 1 to 10, I give this album a
Thug rating of 10 and two thumbs up for
its head banging beats and true gangsta
lyrics.
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