Mystikal - Ghetto Fabulous

As the No Limit tank rolls ever onward, the burden of excellence increasingly falls upon Mystikal to provide compelling reason to listen to the label's output. While the other soldiers have let complacency stagnate their skills, Mystikal (along with Mia X) pushes on. Ghetto Fabulous picks up where Unpredictable left off: Mystikal spends his time embarrassing his No Limit peers (even Snoop!) and regaling the listener with even more well-constructed street sagas--all delivered with that unharnessed flow that is his trademark. Most appropriately, he pairs up with New York sound-alike Busta Rhymes for "Whacha Want, Whacha Need," a sonic gumbo laced with Caribbean spice. --Jon Caramanica Amazon.com

Look Elsewhere For Quality Hip-Hop From the South

Besides a couple of noteworthy tracks, 'Ghetto Fabulous' by Mystikal is an album chock full of boring beats and even less interesting rhymes. Mystikal's one of those rappers who is perfectly fine in small doses (say, as a guest star on other artist's tracks). When you've got a whole album full of him, however, his flow (in which he mostly yells) becomes tiresome and you realize that he never truly raps about anything substantial.

There are a few decent tracks scattered around this typical No Limit release - 'Ghetto Fabulous' featuring Charlie Wilson and Snoop Dogg is definitely a highlight, and features one of the best beats I've heard on a No Limit record. 'Life Ain't Cool', in which Silkk The Shocker, Master P, and Mystikal sent a shout out to their moms, shows an obvious 2pac influence (see: 'Dear Mama'). Although it's less poetic than 2pac's well-known classic, it certainly gets the job done. If you're into the rowdy material, you're gonna love 'I'm on Fire' and 'Stack Yo Chips'.

Beyond those above average few tracks, however, most of the material featured here is sub par. Unless you feel nostalgic about No Limit's reign on mainstream hip-hop a decade ago, look elsewhere for quality southern hip-hop.

Standout tracks: 'Ghetto Fabulous', 'I'm On Fire', and 'Life Ain't Cool'. July 21, 2008

Pretty dope album

The south don't have the best lyricist for me. But damn can they come up with some of the illest beats. This album got some dope beats. Mystical is one of my favorites though. You can feel his mic presence like he's right next to you. There is a few standout tracks. My favorties are Smell smoke and Ghetto fabulous. Lets go do it would be the best one to me. But Silk ruined that whole track for me. His flow was just too idiotic and he sounded like a second rate amatuer next to Snoop and Mystical. Still dope album. November 17, 2006

A Masterpiece!

Mystikal sounds good on every track.My fav tracks are there he go, and Im on fire.A must have for any rap fan. July 1, 2006

Dis Da Bomb

This Album is Great. I love His Stly of raping and his unique Flow.I chose this becouse it got my Attchen and I heard his other Albums And This My Favorite Album by Mystikal. What I like most was when he chose Artist to be on his Album He Didn't choose the Same NO lIMIT people But he Chose Busta Rhymes.An I Got to Say Buy This Album!!! April 22, 2006

Groundbreaking Althusserian Obsequies

With this groundbreaking album, Mystikal's move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power April 14, 2006

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