After Taxes (Explicit Version) (2005)

Artist: Sheek Louch
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UPC: 00099923583325
Release Date: 11/8/2005
Buy.com Sku: 63996316
Item#: M2GH5R
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Intro ~ Sheek Louch
2. Street Music - (featuring The Game) ~ Sheek Louch
3. On The Road Again ~ Sheek Louch
4. Pain - (with Judakiss) ~ Sheek Louch
5. 45 Minutes To Broadway ~ Sheek Louch
6. One Name - (with Carl Thomas) ~ Sheek Louch
7. Guess Who ~ Sheek Louch
8. Maybe If I Sing ~ Sheek Louch
9. DeVine - (with J-Hood) ~ Sheek Louch
10. Kiss Your *** Goodbye - (remix, featuring Fabolous/Beanie Sigel/T.I.) ~ Sheek Louch
11. Do Not Interrupt ~ Sheek Louch
12. Run Up - (with Styles) ~ Sheek Louch
13. Get up, Stand Up - (featuring Redman) ~ Sheek Louch
14. Pressure ~ Sheek Louch
15. Movie N***** - (with Ghostface Killah) ~ Sheek Louch
16. Juice Bar ~ Sheek Louch
17. All Fed Bar ~ Sheek Louch
18. Get Money - (featuring Jadakiss) ~ Sheek Louch
19. Kiss You A** Goodbye ~ Sheek Louch



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
The third member of LOX (alongside Jadakiss and Styles P) to release solo work, Sheek Louch follows up his debut, 2003's WALK WITT ME, with AFTER TAXES in 2005. Louch's flow comes straight out of the East Coast hardcore tradition, with a slow, heavy delivery and lots of muscle in the attack. Louch spends a lot of AFTER TAXES critiquing the commercial aims of rappers like 50 Cent, but the inventive beats and hard-hitting rhymes here (not to mention the cameos from, among others, Jadakiss, Styles P, Ghostface Killa, and Redman) are proof enough that Sheek Louch intends to stay street.
There's a refreshing moment during "On the Road Again" where LOX member Sheek Louch admits his last album didn't do well, but it's back to the drawing board, this time the independent label drawing board where there's more freedom. Without this freedom, the great "45 Minutes to Broadway" probably wouldn't have the quirky, hypnotic Havoc-produced loop it does, or the sleazy swagger of "One Name" probably wouldn't be as irresponsible as it is (although the seduction-oriented track with Carl Thomas as guest does go against the album's opening declaration that Sheek is so free there will be "no R&B"). Frequent target 50 Cent gets a proper thrashing on "Maybe If I Sing," a track that's triumphantly vicious or simply amusing depending on whether or not you take the D-Block versus G-Unit war to heart. All these tracks make After Taxes a filling, winningly diverse street album, but it's the infectious "Kiss Your Ass Goodbye" that really makes the album pop, partly because Beanie Sigel delivers a line about feeding and burping his disrespectful prot?g?s, but mostly because of Sheek's snide verses and extremely catchy chorus. Topping it off is Ghostface's cool boasting on "Movie Niggaz" as the man brags about having "Enron money" over the Alchemist's soulful production. Skits that are funny and an endless parade of wry putdowns and pop culture references that deserve a laugh out loud are all contrasted with bleak, vivid verses that are primal rage and provocative (leaving your enemy's dead body where his children play isn't even the worst of it). It's an interesting, uncompromising combination that suggests Sheek is a more complicated artist than given credit for, but the bile and thugging that make the album so street and independent is intense enough to alienate gangsta detractors. There is an overall feeling the tracks could have been ordered in a more sensible way, but After Taxes handily beats his solo debut while giving the LOX faithful something to bump as they enter their fifth year of waiting for the crew's return. ~ David Jeffries

Producer: Vinny Idol; Rockwilder; DJ Twinz; Cocoa Chanelle; Buck Wild; Mr. Devine; Vinny Idol; Rockwilder; Havoc; Red Spyda; DJ Twinz

Musical Guests
The Game
Redman
Jadakiss
Ghostface Killah
P. Diddy
Fabolous
T.I.
Beanie Sigel

 
Compilation Appearances
Vol. 2-Hip Hop Hits (Explicit Version)
Pretty Toney (Explicit Version)
Car Show Tour(w/ Bonus DVD)(Explicit Version)
Car Show Tour(w/ Bonus DVD)
Fidel Cashflow
Game Of Death (Explicit Version)
Unstoppable V32 0106
Y.o.'s Finest
Blood Brothers(Explicit Version)
More Fish (Cln)
More Fish(Explicit Version)
Dj Envy And Red Cafe(Explicit Version)
Supa Gangsta Extraordinary Gentleman
Supa Gangsta Extraordinary Gentleman
Exit 13(Explicit Version)
Exit 13
N4l (Explicit Version)
Kar(Explicit Version)
D Block(Explicit Version)
Last Kiss(Explicit Version)
Last Kiss
Phantom Gangster Chronicles Vol 1(Explicit Version)
For The Love Of Ray (Ost)
Philadelphia Freeway 2(Explicit Version)
Wall Street Generals:based On A True(Explicit Version)
Best Of Grafh Classic Shit Part One
Time Machine(Explicit Version)

 
Associated Artists and Works
Jadakiss

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 11/08/2005
Original Release Date : 2005
Catalog ID : 5833
Label : Koch Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Studio/Live : Studio
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00099923583325

 
Professional Reviews
Rolling Stone (No. 988, p.128)
- 3 out of 5 stars - "...[A]lternately murky and brassy-hot beats..."

  


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