Notes & Personnel Info |  | Big Tymers: Bryan "Baby" Williams, Mannie Fresh (rap vocals). |  | Additional personnel includes: Tateeze, Boo, Gotti, T.Q., Mikkey, Gilly, Jazze Pha, Barewolf, Lac, Stone, Trick Daddy. |  | Producers: Mannie Fresh, Jazze Pha, Greg Street. |  | Engineers: Steve Hardy, Kevin Crouse, Dale "Rambro" Ramsey. |  | Recorded at Unique, Sony, New York, New York; Circle House, Florida; Street House, Patchwerk Studios, Atlanta, Georgia. |  | "Still Fly" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. |  | Big Tymers: Bryan "Baby" Williams, Mannie Fresh. |  | Additional personnel includes: Tateeze, Boo, Gotti, T.Q., Mikkey, Gilly, Jazze Pha, Barewolf, Lac, Stone, Trick Daddy. |  | Producers: Mannie Fresh, Jazze Pha, Greg Street. |  | Engineers include: Steve Hardy, Kevin Crouse, Dale "Rambro" Ramsey. |  | Recorded at Unique, Sony, New York, New York; Circle House, Florida; Street House, Patchwerk Studios, Atlanta, Georgia. |  | "Still Fly" was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. |  | With HOOD RICH, Big Tymers, a.k.a. Mannie Fresh and Brian "Green" Williams, bring an album that's a cut above the run-of-the-mill efforts of many of their contemporaries, in production smarts at least. Lyrically, the duo's lyrical preoccupations (big pimpin', hoes, money and lack/abundance of same) are much the same as they ever were, but there's an old-school atmosphere to many of the tracks here that gives the whole enterprise a nicely laid-back feel. They knock the ball out of the Cash Money ballpark with "Still Fly," a riches-to-rags homily, and use the vocal talents of Gotti, Mikkey, Jazz Pha, and Tateeze to good advantage on tracks such as the breezy "Sunny Day" and the down and dirty "I'm Comin'." The refrain on "Gimme Some" ("oh when oh when are you gonna gimme some?") won't win any prizes for originality, but the outstanding features on HOOD RICH are the rhythms, which are fat and slow, and the production, which is retro enough to sound almost new. |
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