Tear Da Club Up Thugs
CrazynDaLazDayz
Relativity
March 1999 / Issue #114

Source Mic rating: 3

Record Report
Chili peppers. Lemons. Cod liver oil. These things are hard to swallow. Now add Crazyndalazdayz by the Tear Da Club Up Thugs to that list.

As Juicy "J," DJ Paul and Lord Infamous of Three-Six Mafia continue to capitalize on their "Tear Da Club Up" fame, they continue to prove that the Hypnotized Minds camp is quite possibly the wildest crew in hip-hop right now as anything goes.

For the Three-Six Mafia fans who refer to the group by their old name, Triple 6 Mafia, Crazyndalazdayz is laced with the same trimmings that made their underground mix tapes popular. In fact, the cameos on Crazyndalazdayz may even be considered an improvement to the Thugs formula. On songs like "Undercover Freaks," featuring Short Dog himself, "Paper Chase," featuring Fatal, "Smoked Out," with Twista, and "Hypnotize Cash Money," with the soon to be blazin' Hot Boys, some of the hottest rappers in the industry get their chance to tear tracks up with the Thugs.

Likewise, cuts like "Push' Em Off," "Elbow A Nigga" and "Get Buck Get Wild" are destined to follow in "Tear Da Club Up's" tracks in the Southern and Mid-Western club scene.

But for the conditional hip-hop listener, and the squeamish, easily offended types, Crazyndalazdayz will sound like the Tear Da Club Up Thugs have opened Pandora's Box. All hell breaks loose when those who might prefer the sounds of, say Kirk Franklin, for example, are met with songs like "God Calls Time Out." And that's just the beginning. If the same group who protested Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" hears "A Nigga's Worst Downfall," on which the group advocates exacting revenge on all triflin' "baby mammas," don't be surprised if Tipper Gore jumps up with her own picket signs protesting Three-Six Mafia.

The bottom line? This latest from our boys in Memphis might not even get to see the light of day in tape decks of hip-hop "purists" or on Wal-Mart shelves because-like cigarettes, strong alcohol and most albums from the Hypnotized Minds camp-Crazyndalazdayz requires listeners to have already developed an acquired taste for the Thugs' brand of hip-hop. And unfortunately for them, gratuitous shock tactics have not only gone past cliché, they also make it hard for listeners to take "shocking artists" seriously.

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