DJ Premier - Time 4 Change

It does my heart good to see that Premo is still very much out on the scene and contributing not only to worthwhile artist's, but worthwhile causes as well. "Time 4 Change" as you probably can deduce from looking at the cover is a mixtape dedicated to the overhaul change that needs to take place in this country via our leadership. Dawning the Obama campaign symbol on the front of a ballot box cements Premo's endorsement, and more importantly, with only 10 or so days til' most of us will go and cast our vote, it's a heads up. Admittedly, a lot of the actual content on this tape is not directly correlated to politics, but some tracks do make poignant statements about the current state America is in. Prodigy's "Veterans Memorial Pt.2" is one such track that comes to mind. The rest gets kind of muddled. While I am a big fan of artist's coming out and showing support to their particular party, I am not a fan of when it's not done as well as it could of been. Unfortunately, while I am the biggest Premier fan on the face of the earth I have to give him somewhat lower marks for this outing. He just didn't bring forth a really moving or interesting project and quite frankly I found that this didn't have much replay value at all. I mean come on Premo, you know damn well ya fans ain't going out and copping ya tapes, gearing up to hear shitty Ludacris joints on em'......All in all, I commend Premier for trying to raise awareness about the importance of this year's election and letting us all know his sane by endorsing Barack Obama, but this tape is just not musically very good. The NYG's, D-Flow, M.O.P., Black Milk, Scarface, DJ Revolution and Blaq Poet make things somewhat bearable, but if your up on your stuff you've heard all those tracks already. Sad to confirm it, but Premier has released yet another mediocre mixtape folks.

-BIG D O





01 DJ Premier & Biggest G - Time 4 Change
02 Nygz - Policy
03 Big Shug - When I Strike
04 House Of Reps - U Gotta Love Us
05 Termanology - Hold That
06 Blaq Poet - Ain’t Nuttin Changed
07 Prodigy - Veterans Memorial Pt. 2
08 Statik Selektah Ft. MOP, Jadakiss - For The City
09 Young Maylay - I Showed You
10 D-Flow (DITC) - Like Dat
11 Scarface - Emeritus
12 Jake One Ft. Little Brother - Bless The Child
13 Ludacris Ft. Floyd Mayweather - Undisputed
14 LL Cool J - Dear Hip Hop
15 DJ Revolution Ft. Planet Asia - School
16 Bumpy Knuckles - The OG Pt. 3
17 Royce Tha 5′9″ - I Gotta Shake This
18 DJ Revolution Ft. KRS-One, DJ Premier - The DJ
19 Black Milk Ft. Pharoahe Monch, DJ Premier, Sean
Price - The Matrix

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