Underground 16: For da Summa

With his credentials as the self-styled "King of Memphis" and founding member of Three 6 Mafia, you'd be hard pressed to give DJ Paul any lessons in the art of bringing gangsta rap to an eager public. With UNDERGROUND VOL. 16 FOR DA SUMMA, his somewhat misleadingly titled debut solo effort, Paul is quick to provide instruction in both his community status ("Back Da Fuck Back") and, in "Still Gettin My Dick Sucked," his loverman expertise, which appears literally and metaphorically to be somewhere to the south of the late great Marvin Gaye's. Although the Dirty South is fairly old news nowadays, with the impact of a cut such as "Glock in My Draws" reduced by multiple exposures over the years, DJ Paul can still shock when he feels the urge--the visceral imagery of "Beatin These Hoes Down" is disturbing in the extreme--while in a more humorous mood he uses a loop of the Isley Brothers' guitar motif from "Summer Breeze" on "Twist It, Hit It, Lite It" in a compact ode to the power of mind-expanding drugs.