![]() ![]() I Am Crack features the Harlem rapper setting the record straight on his addictive yet deadly nature over an almost rock-style beat. Sizzla returns the favor by bringing the Harlem duo to Jamaica, injecting his dancehall influence on the bouncy Shottas. Diplomat’s brother Cam'ron makes a big splash with his appearance on Murda Murda, a track that cops the same Ini Kamoze sample as Damian Marley's massive Welcome to Jamrock. What the Game's Been Missing! is not as guest heavy as you'd expect, with just a few cameos, including Young Jeezy and Lil' Wayne, plus Cam'ron of course. The first two singles – the Jeep shakers There It Go (The Whistle Song) and Mic Check – are full of Santana's trademark brags. Postman, and Daddy, which loops Aerosmith's I Don't Want to Miss a Thing like it was an old soul sample. Dipset's in-house producers Heatmakerz provide beats for five tracks, including the blazing Oh Yes, which chops up the Marvelettes' Please Mr. He brings the thugged-out bravado, the grimy hood narratives, the energetic club joints and of course the unique Diplomatic flavor. On What the Game's Been Missing! Santana hits listeners from all angles. What the Game's Been Missing! is not as guest heavy as you'd expect Few MCs say more with so little, and Santana compensates for what he lacks of Cam'ron's 3D-goggled imagism or Young Jeezy's raze-the-block charisma with a knotty, nunchucking delivery style. He's a master minimalist who can take a single word and make a song of it. Both here and on his mixtapes, Santana delivers simple phrases with enough oomph to break a dinosaur rib cage. Now after dwelling in the shadow of his mentor Cam'ron, Juelz Santana comes fully into his own on his second album, What the Game's Been Missing!, an excellent disc of club-bangers and street parables. ![]() Plenty of proper Diplomat releases and twice as many mixtapes have flooded the hood since his debut. ![]() It took him two years to release his sophomore album, but he was hardly absent from the scene. Shortly after, he joined Harlem's Diplomat Set (aka Dipset) crew and made his full-length album debut with From Me to U in 2003. Juelz Santana was introduced to most of the rap world in 2000 when Cam'ron granted him a guest spot on Double Up. ![]()
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