Mavado - Gangsta For Life: The Symphony Of David Brooks (2007) {VP}

 

Mavado - Gangsta For Life: The Symphony Of David Brooks (2007) {VP}
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Genre: reggae

Gangsta For Life: The Symphony Of David Brooks is the 2007 album by Jamaican singer David Brooks, who is known under the mononym Mavado. This was released on the VP label.

In Gangsta for Life, "Squeeze Breast," a filthy-mout'd litany of Mavado's pussy-wrangling skills (rendered even more lascivious by the lingering Jamaican pronunciation of "poosey"), segues into "Heart Beat," an innocent, yearning love song to a girl he's yet to bed. The album's concept—this is a symphony playing off the Jamaican rapper's many moods—would misfire if Mavado weren't truly the "Real McKoy," as he announced in the 2004 tune that launched him. Taken together with scattered pearls of spoken piety dropped like blessings by a Rasta elder, Gangsta's tracks (some proven hits, some new) betray a severe case of multiple-personality disorder.

But Mavado represents for the "ghettio," and what could be more schizophrenic than an island life that's paradise for a few and a prison sentence for most? That essential truth is the source of reggae's sweet and sour attractions, so Gangsta is doing nothing less than keeping it all too real. The violence of "Me and My Dogs" and "ABP" lives side by side with "Sadness," Mavado's lament for his father, and it's not surprising that the album's centerpiece is "Dying," a Tupac riff that similarly vacillates between empathy and rage. Mavado's lyrical skills are nearly as shattering, and he's got that gift for singing with a mystic's sensibility and MC'ing with a thug's stony heart. At nearly every turn, what threatens at first listen to be a clichéd, hypocritical, blatant audience bid turns out to be truly dangerous, a bulletin issued straight from Jamaica's troubled psyche.

01. Parental Advisory
02. Angriest Introduction
03. Real Mckoy With A Full Clip (featuring Busy Signal)
04. Weh Dem A Do
05. A Father's Prayer
06. They Fear Me
07. Defitition Of A Gangster
08. Dreaming
09. Don't Cry
10. Cassava Piece Radio
11. Dying (featuring Serani)
12. David's Interlude
13. Top Shotta Nah Miss
14. Joey D Ratt
15. Last Night
16. A Snitch's Eulogy
17. Amazing Grace
18. Touch The Road
19. Me And My Dogs
20. APB
21. Gully Side
22. Squeeze Breast
23. Heart Beat
24. Sadness
25. Born & Raised

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Tracks 3, 6, 8, 11, 23, 25 produced by DASECA Productions
Track 4 produced by Delroy "Delly Ranx" Foster
Track 9 produced by Nikki Z
Track 13, 17 produced by Stephen "Di Genius" McGregor
Track 16 produced by Linton White
Track 18 produced by O'Neil "Foota Hype" Thomas
Track 19 produced by Trevor "Baby G" James & produced by Yard Vybz
Track 21 produced by Dane "Fire Links" Johnson]
Track 22 produced by Michaek "ZJ Liquid" Brissett
Track 24 produced by Bobby "Digital" Dixon & Famous

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