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M.A.D.E. [PA] [044006337326]

Memphis Bleek
1 disc

1. Roca-a-Fella Get Low Respect It
2. Everything Is a Go - (featuring Jay-Z)
3. Round Here - (featuring Trick Daddy/T.I.)
4. Just Blaze, Bleek & Free - (featuring Freeway)
5. We Ballin' - (featuring Proof/Young Chris)
6. Hypnotic - (featuring Jay-Z/Beanie Sigel)
7. I Wanna Love U - (featuring Donell Jones)
8. War
9. My Life - (featuring Latif)
10. Need Me in Your Life - (featuring Nate Dogg)
11. Murda Murda - (featuring Jay-Z/Beanie Sigel)
12. Hell No
13. Hood Musik - (featuring M.O.P.)
14. Understand Me Still - (featuring Rell)
15. Do It All Again - (featuring Geda K/Lil' Cease/Rell)
16. 1,2 Y'All - (featuring Jay-Z/Lil' Cease/Geda K)
17. R.O.C.
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 0000322
Credits

Producer
Engineer
Personnel includes: Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Young Chris, Proof, Trick Daddy, Jay-Z, Donell Jones, Beanie Sigel, Latif, Nate Dogg, M.O.P., Rell, Lil, Cease, Geda K.
Producers include: Just Blaze, Kanye West, T.T., E Bass, Art & Life.
Recorded at Baseline Studios, New York, New York.
From the Scorsese-like voiceover intro referencing Memphis Bleek mentor Jay-Z's retirement from music and Bleek's initiation as a "made" Roc-A-Fella, this follow-up to 2000's UNDERSTANDING feels like the attempted anointing of a successor to the Godfather. Whether Bleek can fill Jay's shoes is a matter for conjecture, but on this showing he's got the chops and the ideas to make a respectable attempt. M.A.D.E. builds on the foundations of Bleek's previous two albums and shows increasing confidence on cuts such as the insistent "Everything's a Go" and the snaky "Murda Murda," with its hushed, urgent lyric. On this showing though, one thing's clear--Memphis Bleek is a rapper who's not about to desert his roots, no matter how big his future might be.