What happened to TABB DOE and The Money Mobb?
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Yup... Here's an old 4080 review of the album.
TABB DOE & THE MONEY MOBB Reality Check Incognito Entertainment
All you avid hip hop video watchers may remember Tabb Doe’s visual for the single "Jake the Fake" a song on which Tabb highlights brothers that be…well, fakin’. Whether it be getting’ with fine chassies or bein’ the G on the block (remember in the video when Jake went to the trunk and cocked his almighty security device-The Club), this brotha always has some fib to show or tell. For many of us, this is some real shit. Thus, the title of the current album "Reality Check".
Tabb Doe from San Francisco via the East Coast, expresses on the album that he creates his music for people in situations about which he spits. He sticks to the script on cuts like "Ghetto Mentality", presenting scenarios that ultimately lead to dead ends in the hood. "Casanova Black" chronicles tha pimp/playa/hustler that we all know (or claim to be). But this pimp ends up getting’ smoked by a husband in the end. Pimps be advised.
Tabb chooses to expound on this "Jake" syndrome on "Jake-Ass Niggaz", with added flavor from potna J-Bills. "Save the Drama" urges brothers in the Bay to refrain from actin’ a fool at events. Lyrics for all the thugs to peep on this cut: "Come on and go wit me/ To the premiere of this black flick/ I pray to God that these brothas don’t be actin’ sick…Make a brotha not want to go see the show/ Now I gotta go where the non-blacks go/ We can’t keep keep nothin’ in our own town/ Cuz y’all always gotta clown and police shut it down."
Lyrically, Tabb Doe and company provide a solid effort. Musically, the album breaks away from the "Bay area sound" (i.e. funky synthesizer riffs and arrangements) for a more jazzy feel. Standouts include "Nuthin’ Like Hip-Hop Muzik", which contains that timelessly bumpin’ sample from the Beastie’s "Paul Revere"; "Casanova Black" represents the smoothed out but up tempo tone along with "On the Mellow Tip", with its deep, upright bassline; Dolla Maine and Bank-Book join in with Tabb on "Verbal Assault".
The only break from reality on the album seems to be "Black Man’s Heaven", where Bob Marley eternally plucks strings on his guitar and Scott LaRock cuts it up on the 1 and 2. In this "keep it real" era of hip hop, "Reality Check" serves as a true testament to this phrase.
-MACEO GRANT, 4080 Hip-Hop Magazine
TABB DOE & THE MONEY MOBB Reality Check Incognito Entertainment
All you avid hip hop video watchers may remember Tabb Doe’s visual for the single "Jake the Fake" a song on which Tabb highlights brothers that be…well, fakin’. Whether it be getting’ with fine chassies or bein’ the G on the block (remember in the video when Jake went to the trunk and cocked his almighty security device-The Club), this brotha always has some fib to show or tell. For many of us, this is some real shit. Thus, the title of the current album "Reality Check".
Tabb Doe from San Francisco via the East Coast, expresses on the album that he creates his music for people in situations about which he spits. He sticks to the script on cuts like "Ghetto Mentality", presenting scenarios that ultimately lead to dead ends in the hood. "Casanova Black" chronicles tha pimp/playa/hustler that we all know (or claim to be). But this pimp ends up getting’ smoked by a husband in the end. Pimps be advised.
Tabb chooses to expound on this "Jake" syndrome on "Jake-Ass Niggaz", with added flavor from potna J-Bills. "Save the Drama" urges brothers in the Bay to refrain from actin’ a fool at events. Lyrics for all the thugs to peep on this cut: "Come on and go wit me/ To the premiere of this black flick/ I pray to God that these brothas don’t be actin’ sick…Make a brotha not want to go see the show/ Now I gotta go where the non-blacks go/ We can’t keep keep nothin’ in our own town/ Cuz y’all always gotta clown and police shut it down."
Lyrically, Tabb Doe and company provide a solid effort. Musically, the album breaks away from the "Bay area sound" (i.e. funky synthesizer riffs and arrangements) for a more jazzy feel. Standouts include "Nuthin’ Like Hip-Hop Muzik", which contains that timelessly bumpin’ sample from the Beastie’s "Paul Revere"; "Casanova Black" represents the smoothed out but up tempo tone along with "On the Mellow Tip", with its deep, upright bassline; Dolla Maine and Bank-Book join in with Tabb on "Verbal Assault".
The only break from reality on the album seems to be "Black Man’s Heaven", where Bob Marley eternally plucks strings on his guitar and Scott LaRock cuts it up on the 1 and 2. In this "keep it real" era of hip hop, "Reality Check" serves as a true testament to this phrase.
-MACEO GRANT, 4080 Hip-Hop Magazine