Album Review: Sloughterhouse- Sloughtethouse

These days, there can be many rap groups found recording music, groups such as 'Wu Tang Clan' and 'D12' both held the rap world with there bare hands at one point, and groups such as 'G-Unit' or 'Young Money' are in the lower side of rap music, meaning that they do make good music, but not enough good music to go up to a mediocre level, but now, there is a new rap group on the music scene, a group called 'Slaughterhouse' which is made up of four highly skilled rappers: Royce Da 5'9", Crooked-I, Joe Budden, and Joel Ortiz, each member alone is a great rapper, but what would happen if we put them all together? Would they be as good as Wu Tang Clan? or D12? Well, now that they released an album we can all judge.

Slaughterhouse is Slaughterhouse's first album, they named the album after there group's name, so that clearly means that they mean business, they clearly want to make the world know who are they, and not think 'that's a good song, who's song it it?'.

The album opens up with a very energized and lyrical track, called 'Sound Off' which includes each member showing off their high lyrical skills, and it also is one of the best tracks on the album, the second track is called 'Lyrical Killers' which is not as good or as energized as the first track on the album, but it still passes as a powerful track, then the third track, 'Microphone' which is again, one of my favorite tracks, it delivers everything that people want in a rap track, but there were too many mentions of the word 'microphone' also, the fourth track, 'Not Tonight' was a very strong track on the album, it is very energized, it has a great rhythm, and it's overall a masterpiece, then after that, a strong fifth track comes in, that's strong lyrically, and has a great beat, but except that the sexual language is overly used, and overuse of sexual language in songs have always lead to mediocre tracks, tracks such as 'Lollipop' by Lil Wayne, 'How Low' by Ludacris, and many more, but for some reason, 'the One' felt much more energized and lyrical then many of those tracks with allot of sexual language, other great tracks in the album include the more emotionally driven 'Prey' and 'Rain Drops'.

The album did feature some weaker tracks, such as 'Cuckoo' or 'Salute' which where both good tracks, but not as good as most of the songs on the album, also there where two skits on the album that did not need to be in the album at the first place, but otherwise, the album is one of the most energized to ever come out.

Slaughterhouse delivered everything needed to make a good album, strong lyrics, a very powerful rhythm, strong beats, and something that only a few rap songs and albums tried to deliver: energy, but there were some tracks on the album which really did nothing, or some very minor errors in the albums which could have been fixed easily, but what are we going to do? Slaughterhouse isn't perfect, or near-perfect, but it's still one of the best albums to come out in a while, overall, Slaughterhouse is comparable to Wu Tang Clan and D12, but it's not as good as either of them at the same time.


*Album Rating:-


-Lyrics(out of 8)= 7
-Content(out of 8)= 7
-Flow(out of 8)= 8
-Rhythm (out of 8)= 7
-Beats(out of 8)= 7
Total Rating(out of 40)= 36
5 Stars



*Rating System:


0- 7= 0 Stars
8- 14= 1 Star
15- 21= 2 Stars
22- 30= 3 Stars
31- 35= 4 Stars
36- 40= 5 Stars