Made Men - Classic Limited Edition

Good album from the "Made Men"

Benzino left the Almighty RSO and founded the Made Men with Antonio Twice Thou & Mr. Gzus and put this out in 99. With 19 songs you get a lot of material and guests as well. Antonio Twice Thou is on 18 songs, Mr. Gzus is on 16, and Benzino is on 14. Of the 19, 1 is a classic, 1 or 2 I skip, 3 or 4 ar eok and the rest are good songs. This was before Benzino was in his beef with the, at the time, not well known Eminem (who just came out 6-8 months prior to this release. Production is tight and mostly handled by Hangmen 3 (like all projects Benzino is involved with) doing 13 of the 19 songs. L.E.S. does 2 songs, Daz Dillinger & Soopafly, Dame Grease, Kanye West (this is the 1st song I ever heard him produce), and D-Dot all do 1 song. A nice album to have for your collection.

#2 - 7.5 (Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou)
#4 - 5 ((Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ master P & Keva)
#6 - 8 (Antonio Twice Thou -- nice beat)
#7 - 9 ((Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou - tight beat)
#9 - 8.5 ((Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Man Terror & Tanya Von -- upbeat song)
#10 - 9 (Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou -- tight beat)
#11 - 10 CLASSIC! (Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ the LOX -- also on the "Belly Soundtrack" -- great beat)
#12 - 9 (Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou -- deeper song w/ nice beat)
#14 - 8.5 (Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Montell JOrdan)
#15 - 8 ((Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Ma, Big Pun (R.I.P.), cardan)
#16 - 7.5 (Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Ranger)
#17 - 8 ((Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Mike McNeil)
#18 - 8.5 )Antonio Twice Thou, Mr. Gzus f/ Tangg, Pahedrae)
#19 - 7 (Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Tyvee -- upbeat song)
#20 - 8 9(Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou -- another upbeat one)
#22 - 6 ((Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Queen Pen & monifah)
#23 - 8.5 ((Benzino, Mr. Gzus, Antonio Twice Thou f/ Tray Deee -- nice beat)
#24 - 8.5 (Benzino, Mr. Gzus, -- deeper song)
#25 - 7.5 (Antonio Twice thou, Man Terror, Tangg, Mike McNeil)

BENZINO -- Raymond Scott -- Boston, MA
MR. GZUS -- A. Grant -- Boston, MA
ANTONIO TWICE THOU -- M. Ennis -- Boston, MA

check all my reviews April 14, 2006

its ok one of benzino's side projects

this album i found in someone's cd case my friend found and he gave it to me. then i found this i popped it in and i wasn't surpised because it came out in the bad boy era 1998 and i wasn't really feelin this cd but the only songs that i really liked was Wise Guys For Life and Tommy's Theme from the belly soundtrack featuring LOX
January 28, 2006

Another product of the sauce ... sorry, I meant Source

Bezino returns with his crew. This album is utter rubbish. There's no saying further. The guest appearances are what make it worth, but for Master P (What da...?) to outshine them in song, then they must really suck. Really. 4 1/2 mics. Benzino said he's the 5 mic giver. Now I understand what he means. No wonder these dudes never get shown anywhere except the Source. February 1, 2005

Hotttttt

Hot album.
Tommy's Theme ft. The LOX
Blowin' Circles In The Wind
Not The One (That B**ch Is Done)
15 Years In
Sticky Situation ft. Montell Jordan

are all fire just to name a few. The only problem with the album was it had too many skits and it was too long. Almost 80 minutes. It literaly was 1 or 2 songs away from being able to be sold as a double disc. Even some of the greatest rappers ever had problems dropping a album with this long and with this many tracks(Jay-Z for example with The Blueprint 2). If they would have trimmed it down to about 60 minutes with the best 17 or 18 tracks it would have been a CLASSIC! May 6, 2004

No good

no good, benzino is not very great dont wast your money on this album buy something worth while like The Black Album or Beg For Mercy. February 3, 2004

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