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LAYZIE BONE PRESENTS Mo Thugs III: The Mothership, the third compilation album by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's Mo Thugs Records, is quite possibly the most different of the three albums. Though I am an avid Bone Thugs fan, I'm sorry to say that this latest album does not meet up to the greatness of the previous two compilations. It does have it's redeeming points on such tracks as the soulful and meaningful "This Ain't Livin'," the hard hitting, quick-paced rhymes of "Last Laugh," and the last two tracks by fellow Bone Thugs members Flesh and Layzie, "If I Can Go Back" and "Everything Green". The major problem with this album is most likely due to the fact that Mo Thugs Records has lost so many of it's beloved original artists (Poetic Hustla'z, Souljah Boy, Graveyard Shift, and II Tru -- leaving the only original members, Ken Dawg and Flesh-N-Bone), as well as some of their unique artists on their sophomore album (Thug Queen and Powder who helped to collaborate on the hit single "Ghetto Cowboy" off that very same album), after the fall and merge of Relativity Records with Loud. Mo Thugs Records was then left to Layzie Bone (after Krayzie Bone and Wish Bone started Thugline Records, and Bizzy Bone started 7th Sign Records) to find a more suitable distribution and parent label.... eventually finding home with Koch Entertainment. Due to these dramatic changes, there have been numerous changes in the Mo Thugs Family as well, adding the very "Bone Thugs-like" rhymes of Emmortal Thugs (the best of the new artists), yet another member (Ebonie Lane) of the R&B singing group Potion, Capone with a very small part appearance on "U Don't Want None," Black Hole Of Watts (mentioned on Bizzy Bone's solo album Heaven'z Movie), Freaky-G (A.K.A "Stew Bone" - younger brother of Layzie and Flesh), and lastly, the young and progressing talent of Jeremy (Layzie's real life son). The album tends to focus too much on songs by Desperidos, making it seem like it's almost a solo album for their group. I feel that the record could have had more of artists that did not get much recognition, like Freaky-G or Capone, who were merely featured with other artists. This album was nice, but could have had more diversity of artists in it, and leave the excessive Desperidos songs to their solo album. Old fans will notice a great change in the set up of this album, and sadly, may be a little disappointed. The label's original artists are a great necessity, and hopefully, in time some may return again. RATING TRACKLIST: VIEW THE REVIEW FOR: DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING ON THIS PAGE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! |
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