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Field Mob

Light Poles And Pine Trees  Hear it Now

RS: 3of 5 Stars

2006

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On their first two albums, Albany, Georgia, duo Field Mob came off like a junior-college version of OutKast, their supercharged turf talk still going through finishing school. Now linked up with Ludacris' Disturbing Tha Peace stable, Smoke and Shawn J return with their sibilant, deep-fried flows intact, although the album's most transparent bids for chart action are in fact its least successful tracks: "I Hate You" flips Kelis' "Caught Out There" into an ugly grind, and "So What" brings R&B songbird Ciara on board, dulling the group's countrified appeal. Turns out Field Mob are still best at serving it raw. "Y'all remind me of where I rent my DVDs at/Y'all some block busters!" they holler on the album-opening dis-fest, "1, 2, 3." Even better is the rubbery funk of "Blacker the Berry," a race-related jam that loops 2Pac's "Keep Ya Head Up" and delivers punch lines like "Venus and Serena done beat more white girls than O.J. and Rick James put together!"



PETER RELIC

(Posted: Jun 26, 2006)

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