![]() Very few rappers could claim to get better with age, but it seems like Eightball & MJG may be doing just that. The entire album is designed as an oral history of their past, and since they have a loose narrative to follow, they've wound up creating their most coherent - and arguably best - album yet. ![]() It all holds together, and none of the guest artists - including Cee-Lo, Big Duke, Nina Creque, and OutKast - detracts from Eightball & MJG, who have written some of their finest lyrics yet. By the time the first legitimate 8Ball & MJG compilation, We Are the South, dropped, the Memphis, TN duo had spent four years off the Koch-distributed Suave House label, having signed to Diddys Bad Boy imprint in 2004. Even the hardest-hitting cuts, "Get It Crunk" and "We Started This," have a spacy feel to their production. ![]() ![]() Working with producers Organized Noize, T-Mix, and Black, the duo has found an appealing variation on the Dirty South sound - a smooth groove that recalls classic late-'70s/early-'80s funk, while taking chances with its drum machine rhythms and the overall sonic texture. Eightball & MJG went on hiatus in 1998, and they both released solo albums that weren't bad but weren't particularly noteworthy, either. However, there are always exceptions that prove the rule and, apparently, In Our Lifetime, Vol. Aging does not become most hip-hop artists, nor do reunions.
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