Send ya back to ToysR'Us 2 Get Your Cabbage Patched, Kid!
Stick to ya gunz, featuring a disgusting Kool GRap is the best song on the album, and the quality is consitent throughout. Brownsville, Downtown Swinga, Firing Squad, Salute are all great. Preemo put some of his best beats on here (about half the album was produed by him) and MOP kills them. Billy Danzs especially keeps improving and theyre both great, among the best screaming MC's out there. Lets see the MOP vs Onyx battle!! Hell yeah.
Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
Cop this dope album now... can't nobody touch the Mash Out Posse when it comes to hype lyrics and beats... "Stick To Ya Gunz" with a tight appearance from Kool G Rap, "Salute", "Nothin' To Lose" and "Downtown Swinga '96" are sick joints that get your mojo flowing... DJ Premier and Laze-E-Laze provide the music, and Billy Danze and Lil' Fame come through as always with the words... M.O.P.'s second best album in my opinion, right behind "First Family 4 Life"... East Bay Holla!
Smokin' Gunz..............Fiyah!
Honestly, the beats on "Firing Squad" were better than "Warriorz" because most of the tracks are dark and fiery. DJ Premier produced the hotest tracks: "Firing Squad" jazzy but dark piano loop
"New Jack City" nice work with the xlyophone
"Stick to your gunz" need more Kool G Rap collabos
"Downtown Swinga ('96)" underground classic
The lyrics on this CD are hot. M.O.P. were definitely hungry when the tracks were created. This group has been slept on for years. Respect due.
M.O.P. - Firing Squad
First time I heard M.O.P. was on there second album "Firing Squad" (1996). The duo of Lil'Fame & Billy Danzenie delivered a solid album full of hardcore tracks. DJ Premier and Big Jaz's production contributions to this album are memorable. Backed by a sick piano beat, M.O.P. rip up the grimey title track "Firing Squad", followed up by the deadly "New Jack City". Next Rap legend Kool G Rap drops in for a rugged collabration on "Stick To Ya Gunz" another sick track. "Anticipation" embodies part of KRS-One's "MC's Act Like They Know" and is another blazing track. M.O.P. represent on "Born to Kill" love the keyboards to this one. Big Jaz's beat to "World Famous" was reused last year on Scarface's hit single "My Block", its a sick beat and I like the M.O.P. version. On "Lifestyles of a Ghetto Child" and "Illside of Town" M.O.P. deliver dark hardcore tracks of Murder, loyalty and survival. The next cut "Nothin 2 Lose" is outstanding, M.O.P. get more personal talking about themselves, fallen friends and family, jail and the streets. "Dead & Gone" is another standout, sampling portions of Curtis Mayfields "Let's Do It Again" and featuring background vocals from Battle, Tanya Ray and La Shonda Middleton, M.O.P. pay tribute to fallen friends while addressing death and the afterlife. Album closes off well with "Born 2 Kill" (Jazz Mix). M.O.P. deliver genuine grimey streetlife music with "Firing Squad" an album I would recommend to anyone who enjoy hardcore Hip Hop.
Not what their second album is
About 4 years ago when I bought this cd, I could not wait to throw it in my cd player. But after listening to the whole thing, I lost it, and never wanted to see it again. The lyrics and flow that M.O.P. offered was not the problem. It was the production. Besides "Stick To Ya Gunz" every production is terrible, leaving the cd to be terrible. But now M.O.P. second LP "Warriorz" is out, and it's a thousand times better, Primo made up for his crummy production and M.O.P. got out of their freshman slump.
