Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Suga Free, DJ Quik, Tony Lane, Hi-C. | | Producers: DJ Quik, Robert "Funksta" Bacon, G-I. | | Recorded at ? Studio, Los Angeles, California. | | With an accelerated, animated, and wholly off-beat flow, Suga Free stands as one of L.A.'s most distinctive gangsta lyricists. Largely slept-on at its release, Suga's full-length 1997 debut, STREET GOSPEL, endures as an exemplary product of its time and place. Suga Free's verbal acrobatics and off-hand pimps-n-hos narratives, set to DJ Quik's breezy, laidback production, make for 14 tracks of vintage G-Funk. | | Suga Free's debut album Street Gospel is a competent collection of street-level, hardcore G-funk, highlighted by DJ Quik's savvy production. Although Suga Free is a strong rapper, he isn't particularly distinctive, and he's often given pedestrian backing music, which makes the album a little tedious. Still, he's charismatic enough to make the best songs, like the single "If You Stay Ready," powerful and that nearly makes the album worthwhile. ~ Leo Stanley |
Engineer: DJ Quik |
Musical Guests | | DJ Quik | | Hi C |
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| The Source (4/97, p.101)
- 2.5 Mics (out of 5)
- "Every now and then a new artist emerges from the rap world who's able to put an exceptional spin on overused topics like pimping, macking and smoking buddha..."Rap Pages (9/97, p.97)
- "...Suga Frees Goldie the Mack-meets-E-40 style of verbal flair is interwoven between Quik's melodies and rhythms like a fine silk-and-linen blend....Lyrically, Suga Free scores big points for humor, style and, of course, arrogant nerve..." |
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