Artist: Ludacris
Album: Battle of the Sexes
Total Tracks: 14 (+ one bonus track)
Total Length: 80 Minutes
Notable Tracks: Sex Room, Sexting (the bonus track), Feelin' So Sexy. Ironic.
For Those Who Like: Sex, Sexes, Sexing, Sexting, Sextuplets.
Overall Rating: 3/10
This is supposed to be a "concept album." The premise: boys and girls have different points of view and every other track alternates between them. A star-stocked line-up appears on the rapper's seventh studio album: Lil' Kim,Lil' Fat, Lil' Scrappy, Monica, Flo Rida, among others. It reached #1 on the Billboard Top 200 in the first week of its release.
Why? Reputation?
These days, Ludacris and his critical appeal seem to be chilling like a bowl of sugar-free jello, as opposed to chillin' with his homies (and smackin' bitches up).
Perhaps it takes more cognizance to follow the album's grand scheme, which Luda claims to be brilliant. As concept albums go, "Battle" fails to accomplish its artistic mission. There is nothing too Earthshaking in its party-gangster laden tracks. The expected elements are there- booze/drugs, sex and violence. The overall lethargic pacing turns Luda's expected aggressive edge into blunt, tired rhetoric.
There is no doubt that Ludacris needn't Viagra. There is more sex on this recording than on Paul Reuben's computer.
Aside from a couple slow poppin' dance tracks and a really, really arousing performance in "Feelin' So Sexy," this album is filler, at best. If this were an actual battle, the women win hands down.
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