Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Eightball, MJG, Peachee P, Thorough, DJ Quik, Billy Cook, Siwzz Beats, Tiny, Jazze Pha. | | Producers: Jazze Pha, MJG, DJ Quik, Corey Woodard. | | Personnel includes: Eightball, MJG, Peachee P, Thorough, DJ Quik, Billy Cook, Siwzz Beats, Tiny, Jazze Pha. | | Producers: Jazze Pha, MJG, DJ Quik, Corey Woodard. | | This is an example of Southern Rap's "screwed" mix style. | | Personnel includes: Eightball, MJG, Lil Mario, Sabwarfare, Tiny, Thorough, | | DJ Quik, Billy Cook, Swizz Beatz. | | Producers include: MJG, Jazze Pha, Corey Woodard, DJ Quik,Swizz Beatz. | | Engineers include: DJ Quik, Rich Keller, Josh Butler. | | 8Ball & MJG: 8Ball, MJG (rap vocals). | | Additional personnel: DJ Quik, Jazze Pha, Peachee P, Swizz Beatz, Thorough, Tiny From Xscape (rap vocals). | | After the thoughtful reflection of In Our Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1999), which had cast Eightball & MJG as been-there, done-that Southern rap sages and earned widespread acclaim in the process, the duo responded with the lighthearted Space Age 4 Eva. This album, Eightball & MJG's first non-Suave House release, returns to the space-age pimping that had been the duo's stock-in-trade for years. The club-orientated tracks stand out, particularly the Swizz Beatz-produced "At the Club" and the DJ Quik-produced "Buck Bounce," both of which pair Eightball & MJG with non-Southern big-name producers for the first time. Elsewhere, a pair of Jazze Pha productions also stand out, the meditative "Thingz" and the aggressive "Pimp Hard," as do the celebratory title track and the intense album-closer, "Thank God." While these individual moments feature some of the best production work of Eightball & MJG's career to date, the album itself as a whole plays like a mishmash, more a collection of big-name producer collaborations than a cohesive whole, which many of the duo's previous albums had been. ~ Jason Birchmeier | | Both members of this Southern hip-hop duo were successful in their own right before they joined forces to become even more of a force on the scene. Ever since they first teamed up, Eightball and MJG have been combining their playa rhymes and images with futuristic aural and lyrical landscapes. Their first album of the 21st century finds the pair announcing themselves as "the pimps of the brand new millennium," underlining the space-age aspect of their approach in the album title. | | Southern flavor is an important aspect of the album, both in the arrangements and in the lyrics. In between flaunting their pimpdom and bragging about how many millions of albums they've sold, Eightball and MJG find time to sing the praises of collard greens, and come up with enough juicy, funky beats to support their lyrical themes. | | Both members of this Southern hip-hop duo were successful in their own right before they joined forces to become even more of a force on the scene. Ever since they first teamed up, Eightball and MJG have been combining their playa rhymes and images with futuristic aural and lyrical landscapes. Their first album of the 21st century finds the pair announcing themselves as "the pimps of the brand new millennium," underlining the space-age aspect of their approach in the album title. | | Southern flavor is an important aspect of the album, both in the arrangements and in the lyrics. In between flaunting their pimpdom and bragging about how many millions of albums they've sold, Eightball and MJG find time to sing the praises of collard greens, and come up with enough juicy, funky beats to support their lyrical themes. |
Musical Guests | | Xscape | | DJ Quik | | Jazze Pha | | Tiny From Xscape | | Thorough | | Peachee P | | Swizz Beatz | | Billy Cook |
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