Youngbloodz Album: “Ev'rybody Know Me [PA]”

This group continues to amaze me. Youngbloodz in my mind are a top duo in the rap game today. Pretty much every song on here is so catchy and the beats are off the hook. I just play this cd from the beginning and rarely paused or skipped a song. I didnt even pick up the phone when my granny called because i was so into it. I never even knew what the single was, to me all of them should be singles. My fav. if i had to pick would be Presidential remix, Ev'rybody Know Me, Grown Man, Sum'n Like A Pimp, and What The Bizz. If u havent already go cop this album ASAP. Overall I give this cd 5 bricketts.

This is a very good album if your looking for some good hitting beats.

This sounds and feels like one of those Atlanta albums.

Not the best album by Youngbloodz but ONE of the best. I give this album 5 stars because of the good beats through-out the entire CD.

This album is very hot. The rhymes and the beats are very superb. Close to a classic. Youngbloodz do it nicely here.

Rite i'm from the UK and not many people round here have heard of the YoungbloodZ .......I ASK WHY!!! These guys are the best rap duo ever bar none (8Ball&MJG, UGK) Every song on this album can be listened to all the way through with no trouble at all, although i was kinda dissapointed that they didn't include "Another Level" on this album as they did on the pre-release one, The production on this is second to none, You can instantly tell the Jazze Pha and Lil Jon tracks straight away as they stand out a mile, the appearences from other artists as well is great, Young Buck and Shawty Putt especially, if i had to name a favourtie song it'd prob have to be Presidential, the amount of times i've listened to this track to cheer me up is mental lol, I'd reccommend ppl look for the version of presidential with lil jon in, as theres two versions of the original plus the remix, and from my point of view the one with the Lil Jon vocals is just a lil better.

Rite i know i've been going on a bit, and i know these guys only rap bowt "Cars, Money and Hoe's" BUT they do it in a way other rappers cant get away with, these guys aint bowt the beef, there bowt avin a damn gud time, and aint that what hip hops bowt?? overall a one-off album that i'd reccommend to anyone and everyone, BUY IT!!!

Although the YoungBloodZ always had skills, it appeared that their first album Against Da Grain didn't get much attention outside of Atlanta. But then they blew up EVERYWHERE after the Lil Jon-assisted "Damn" cracked the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. Still, the fate for their sophomore album Drankin' Patnaz was another example of how a song can climb to the top of the charts yet still no one buys the album (Terror Squad, anyone?). That was also another one of those albums where nothing really stood out other than the singles. But Ev'rybody Know Me is better...well, sort of.

The album starts off great with selections like the Scott Storch-produced "Chop Chop", "Datz Me" (with Young Buck) and the lead single, "Presidential". And for once, the necessary end-of-album remix of it sounds like its own song instead of essentially the same song with another guest rapper on the third verse or something. The title track is also rewindable.

But as soon as you get to track 7 ("What tha Biz (If I)"), things start going downhill. There are a lot of disposable tracks, like "Sum'n Like a Pimp" and the retarded "Grown Man". And as my brother said, "Haterproof" suffers from a lame chorus. Production also starts to get a little redundant: you can tell that Mannie Fresh produced the aforementioned "What tha Biz" because it sounds like a leftover Big Tymers song. And the ironically titled "It's Good" (with T-Boz) is bad enough already, but honestly, is "Wait" the only beat that Mr. Collipark knows how to do?

I'm surprised that many people don't own this album, especially considering that Sean Paul was all over every R&B song last year (but to be fair, he was on Cherish and Sammie's albums, and nobody has THOSE either). I also think that although he's good, J-Bo can rap circles around him (solo album, perhaps?). Considering that this album came out in 2005 and this is only the nineteenth review for it, it seems that not everybody knows the YoungBloodZ after all, but I'll again agree with my brother and say that this album will be enjoyed best by people who are already fans of theirs.

Anthony Rupert