Album Review
Genre: Dancehall
Format: CD Album
Reviewer: Jonas Bæk
Added: Tue, Jan 1, 2008
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Gangsta For Life
During the last couple of years, a young deejay with a very unique voice and style has emerged in dancehall music. David Brooks aka. Movado is the name of this deejay and his payoff ‘Gangsta For Life…Anywaaayeee’ is already synonymous with diehard tunes, skillful lyrics and ruthless honesty straight from the streets of Casava Piece, Kingston, Jamaica. Now its time for his debut album Gangsta For Live… The chronicles of David Brooks which has been released by VP Records quite recently.
The album is packed with strong lyrics sung with a very haunting voice – which leaves you no doubt, that this man is serious and his tunes a for real. Each song starts with the slogan ‘Gangsta For Life…’ cried out with such an anger and feeling, that you keenly awaits the next line in the song. And with tunes like the ecstatic Real McCoy With A Full Clip alongside Busy Signal, the druggy Weh Dem A Do and the current hit Amazing Grace, Movado delivers his rough version of the life in the ghetto.
Unfortunately, the album also includes the annoying interludes, which seems to be a stunt pulled by the guys at VP Records to give you a sense of reality on the album, however it actually works quite the opposite way and leaves you with a sense of anxiety to hear the next song. When listening to the album, your trigger finger eagerly awaits hitting the skip button on the MP3 player for a better song. Also the normally killer tune Dying featuring Serani has been altered in recording with a new vocal – that simply doesn’t have the same gangster appeal as the original version.
Overall Gangsta For Live… The chronicles of David Brooks is a good album – it’s as versatile as Movado can be – but it also gives you a sense of a is-that-it-feeling when the album is over. It simply doesn’t meet my expectations of a Movado release – a release that lacks the energy you normally find in the songs of Movado.
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