Review
With its songs about parking–lot preening and “chatting online when I’m bored,” Paul Wall’s 2005 debut, The People’s Champ, introduced the eternally grinning MC as a Southern–rap everyman. Looking a bit like Fred Durst and a bit like Charlie Brown, he extolled the Houston hip–hop high life (souped–up Cadillacs, dental jewelry, spiked cough syrup) with goofy, wide–eye charm. On album two, though, Wall is running out of ways to describe drop–tops. There are flashes of his oddball wit (“I’m a filibuster for hustlers,” he raps), but, overall, his Motor Trend routine is running thin. His only new trick is an ill–fitting tough–guy persona, trotted out laughably on the Travis Barker collaboration “Slidin’ on That Oil.” His grills might scare a toddler, but that’s about it.
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