SlaughtaHouse

by Masta Ace Incorporated, Masta Ace

Overview

Five years after making his name as a member in Marley Marl's legendary Juice Crew (he was one of the featured MCs on the classic 1988 posse cut "The Symphony" from Marl's In Control, Vol. 1) and three years after recording his buoyant, artistically on-point (though commercially stillborn) debut album, Take a Look Around, with its memorable hit "Me and the Biz," battle-scarred Brooklyn underground star Masta Ace returned for his second album with a newly tweaked name and his own supporting crew (Masta Ace Inc.), a new sound and sharply honed style, and a cynical new outlook on the entire rap game. In fact, a disgusted new outlook might be a more appropriate characterization, as a controlled abhorrence oozes from every pore of SlaughtaHouse, lashing out not only at easy outside targets (bigoted police, for instance) but also at those shady characters inside the "SlaughtaHouse" whose violence is enacted physically (Ace himself places the part of a mugger on "Who U Jackin?") rather than lyrically, bringing the entire community down in the process. A loose concept album, it is at once an intense expose and a roughneck paean to the hip-hop lifestyle that broke new ground by merging the grimy lyrical sensibility, scalpel-precise technique, and kitchen-sink beats of East Coast rap with the funk-dripping, anchor-thick low end of West Coast producers. The classic "Jeep Ass Niguh" was one of the quintessential cruising singles of the summer of 1993. Its unlisted remix, "Born to Roll," with its subsonic gangsta bass, is an equally thumping highlight and (with its sample borrowed from N.W.A's "Real Niggas Don't Die") can be seen as the most explicit bridge between East and West. But other hectic, relentless tracks like "The Big East," "Rollin' wit UmDada," and "Saturday Nite Live" are just as excellent, and Ace's crew -- particularly Bluez Brothers Lord Digga and Witchdoc -- really shines. ~ Stanton Swihart

Product Details

Release Date:	07/20/2018
Label:	Craft Records
UPC:	0888072050020
Rank:	57433

Tracks

Disc 1

1. A Walk Thru the Valley
2. SlaughtaHouse "Diggadome" (Intro)
3. Late Model Sedan
4. Jeep Ass Niguh
5. The Big East
6. Jack B. Nimble
7. Boom Bashin'

Disc 2

8. The Mad Wunz
9. Style Wars
10. Who U Jackin'?
11. Rollin' Wit Umdada
12. Ain't U Da Masta
13. Crazy Drunken Style
14. Don't Fuck Around (Outro)
15. Saturday Nite Live

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Masta Ace Incorporated   Primary Artist
Masta Ace   Primary Artist
Aaron LaCrate   Primary Artist
Debonair Samir   Primary Artist
DJ L.A. Jay   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Alvertis Isbell   Composer
Paula Perry   Composer,Performer
Blaise Dupuy   Mixing,Engineer
Larry Mizell   Composer
Uneek   Producer,Producer
Wade Flemons   Composer
Roger Troutman   Composer
Leon Sylvers III   Composer
Maurice White   Composer
Masta Ace   Mixing,Arranger,Engineer,Producer,Remixing,Art Direction
Maynard Ferguson   Composer
Otis Redding   Composer
George Porter   Composer
DJ U-Neek   Producer
Anthony King   Composer
Michael Beal   Composer
D. Clear   Composer
Don Whitehead   Composer
Verdine White   Composer
Aaron LaCrate   Remix Producer
J. Ferguson   Composer
N. Glover   Composer
Orlando Aguillen   Producer,Executive Producer
Nathaniel Glover   Composer
George DuBose   Design,Photography,Art Direction
Ase Man   Arranger
R. Ellis   Composer
Duval Clear   Composer
Beatheads   Producer
Latief   Producer
Reginald Ellis   Composer
Bluez Brothers   Producer
Debonair Samir   Remix Producer
A. King   Composer
DJ L.A. Jay   Remixing
T. Stewart   Composer
Andre Brown   Composer
Anthony "Latief" King   Composer
Allen Jones   Composer
Norman Glover   Composer
Eric McIntosh   Composer
Tyrone Kelsie   Composer
Courtney McFadden   Composer
Fatima Nickels   Composer
Sean McFadden   Composer
Ase   Arranger,Producer
The Bluez Brothas   Producer,Remixing
Ace   Producer