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| Artist: Memphis Bleek
Label: Def Jam
Category: Music
Buy New: $13.98
Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 86993
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 044006337326
EAN: 0044006337326
ASIN: B0000Z80DO
Release Date: December 16, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Roc-a-Fella Get Low Respect It | | • | Everything's a Go | | • | Round Here | | • | Just Blaze, Bleek & Free | | • | We Ballin' | | • | Hypnotic | | • | I Wanna Love U | | • | War | | • | My Life | | • | Need Me in Your Life | | • | Murda Murda | | • | Hell No | | • | Hood Muzik | | • | Understand Me Still | | • | Do It All Again | | • | 1, 2, Y'All | | • | R.O.C. |
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Amazon.com
So how does Roc-A-Fella Records cope with Jay-Z's retirement? Well, some would argue that Hova's departure leaves the gate wide open for his in-house protege Bleek to step up. Despite a three-year gap between releases--which seems like dog years in popular music--Bleek seamlessly jumps back into the fray by utilizing the widespread rap trends of the day. With its share of cliched collaborations and pedestrian interpolations, his third full-length sure ain't no Black Album. That being said, Bleek's mature ruminations on near-death family experiences (brother) and childbirth issues on "Understand Me Still" hold your interest. And while neither Bleek's delivery nor his lyrics do much to distinguish him from your average Joe Emcee, production contributions from Just Blaze and Kanye West make this a highly listenable album. The numerous guest appearances by members of the Roc-A-Fella clique bump things up a few more notches as well. Everything from Freeway's vocal histrionics on "Just Blaze, Bleek & Free" to M.O.P.'s sheer intensity on "Hood Muzik" to the Jiggaman's sublime raps over the '70s-soul-infused "Hypnotic" help to make this Bleek's best album to date and a pleasant surprise overall. --Dalton Higgins
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| Customer Reviews: Read 67 more reviews...
 3 ONLY beacuse a fellow fan March 11, 2007
Chris Connors (Chicago)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have to say that there are ONLY a couple of good tracks on this disk. In my opinion Bleeks' album sucks.
One of his better albums to me February 22, 2007
THE MAIN MAN (Central Bookin', NY)
Dont expect anything too lyrical from Bleek. Just expect a track here and there with great production and mediocre lyrics. When I heard the first introduction track I was mildly impressed but then came the second and third tracks. Then I realized this is the same old Bleek who starts out strong solo, then gets murdered on his own album yet again. There a couple of decent tracks the entire album is not too bad. There is far worst out there. Bleek and Free is a bangin track. The beat is just ill. Hypnotic is pretty tight too and Beanie got a dope verse on it. This cd is passable, you wont really gain anything with this purchase. If you must get it, then get it as cheap as possible. No one should pay more than 5 bucks for this.
Decent tracks are: Bleek and Free feat. Freeway
Round here feat. Trick Daddy and TI
Hypnotic feat. Beanie Sigel
The best track right here, Murda Murda feat. Jay-Z and Beanie. The remix was a lot better.
 Memph's Bleek Future {2.5 Stars} September 10, 2006
Norfeest (Washington DC USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Simply put, Memphis Bleek is the U God of his crew. You know, that guy that swears he's nice, keeps putting out albums, and all but one of them stink to high heaven. Bleek's only decent release was his most recent release (534). You may think I'm crazy and say to yourself "Coming Of Age is Bleek's best album", but I turned my nose up at it after he was introduced as "the new and improved Jay Z." And in a lot of ways, that claim has been a bit of a snake bite to his career because now he can't get anyone to listen to him. Anyway, back to this album. Lyrically, I've never expected much from Bleek because he's one of those guys that just hasn't shown anything that would make anyone anticipate his releases. Honestly, how many die hard Memphis Bleek fans do you know? Case closed. There are too many wack joints on the album for me to give it 3 stars. "Need Me In Your Life", "", suffer from bad production, "" and "War" suffer from wack lyrics, "We Ballin'" and "My Life" shouldn't be played while operating heavy machinery, "I Wanna Love You" is straight up wack, and all of those songs contain godawful hooks/choruses.
Despite all the bad track, there are some decent cuts on the album to be found. "Just Blaze, Bleek, & Free" is a dope cut. Not because of the lyrics, but because Just Blaze produces a nice track and slaughters the end of it with some serious cutting and scratchin'. The lead single "Round Here" is decent and features Trick Daddy outshining T.I. and Bleek (which speaks volumes to Bleek's flow or lack thereof). "Hypnotic" is a noteworthy track that features Jay Z and Beanie Sigel, but it can have a sleep inducing effect. The easy standout on the album is the bangin' "Murda Murda." Jay Z, again, out shines Bleek on his own album, Beans brings that SP grit that we all love from him, and the production from Scott Storch (the remix is even better though). The rest of the album is typical, run-of-the-mill pop rap.
There are worse albums out there and M.A.D.E. does have a few joints worth hearing, but the long and short of it is Bleek can't rhyme, the beats are generic, and the album is flooded with guest appearances that add absolutely nothing to the album. If Bleek is going to have anykind of impact, he'll need to step up his lyrical game and actually say something worth hearing. Otherwise, he'll forever be known as "that other guy." I recommend downloading the joints you want to hear and save your money for a good album.
Standout Tracks: Round Here feat. T.I. & Trick Daddy, Hypnotic feat. Jay Z & Beanie Sigel, Just Blaze Bleek & Free feat. Freeway, and Murda Murda feat. Jay Z & Beanie Sigel (My Favorite)
M.A.D.E. (The Real Coming Of Age) May 19, 2006
K-Penn (UK)
"Memphis Bleek's" third album was released just a month or so after "Jay-Z's" final album. Nothing major has changed with Bleek's rhyming style and he hasn't really improved much with his lyrical skills. On the positive side, this album does contain enough material to keep you interested, whether it's the blazing production work or his own trial and tribulation stories, this has to "Memphis Bleek's" most interesting album to date. Even though it doesn't live up to his mentor's "Black Album" LP, it still has enough to keep your attention going.
Bleek just cannot get it together January 19, 2006
Chandler (Atlanta (College Park), Georgia)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
3 (or actually now 4) albums deep and Bleek is still "One hit away" according to his good friend Jay-Z. He's been one hit away for a decade now and just can't pull it together. Now on to the album.
I thought this was going to be his breakthrough album back in late '03 with that sond "'Round Here" but I was wrong. That song has Trick Daddy and T.I. in it and it was Bleeks first single. Now since when Bleek think he can rip on southern beats? He can barely put a crack in Just Blaze's beats but he goes down south. As much as I hate T.I., his and Trick Daddy's verse are better than Bleek's. I thought it was Trick Daddy's song for a minute.
On to the other songs of the album. Just about every song that has Jay-Z saves it from being a horrible album. Jay has to give Bleek his tracks that he made to make his album decent (Murda Marcyville II-yes there are 2 versions, both of them orgionally Jay-Z's). 1,2 Yall is a good song because of the collaborations too. Bleek needs to get his lyrics together because some songs he just doesn't cut it, "Half black and chinese, you gave me the fu-fu") I laughed my ass off when I heard that line.
I've bought 2 out of his 4 albums and he just can't get it together by himself. He has to use Beanie Seigel or Jay-Z to put some fire in a song. If hes still one hit away, he needs to hurry up and make that hit, because time is running out and Jay is not going to be around with him forever.
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