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GeoReview: Remy Ma, There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story
By Clayton Ruley
 

Remy Ma has been expected to shine since she blasted her way through the booth on Big Pun's "Ms. Martin". This lady has a rhyme grit and determination that can go against any man or woman in the game and now over half a decade later it is her time. Let's check the album and give it a rating!

 

"She's Gone" is a statement song done over a dark beat. Remy describes her style of rhyme and gives her challengers an early run for their money. This song has the murkiness you'd like to hear Remy on for the majority of the album (personally) but you know with sales in the picture there will be more.

 

"Lights Camera Action" is a fast paced track about Remy being here to stay and why she's the best female in the game! This is a good track to hear in the car when you are riding fast.

 

"Tight" features Fat Joe and the Cool & Dre beat is tight but the chorus leaves some to be desired. As you'd probably assume the beat is about how tight Remy is in a host of areas of her life.

 

The clubs were jumping all 2005/06 fall/winter when "Whuteva" came out! The Swizz Beatz banger features Remy getting her flossy flow on while talking about not being worried about what you or anyone else has to say!

 

"Conceited" is the second single we hear from Remy and here she talks about why she's the girl that has the goods we all could use! This has been a women's anthem of sorts but I question why confidence has to be being conceited! Anyway, Scott Storch does the beat and Remy rhymes catchy over the flute-ridden track.

 

"Feel So Good" features the young crooner Ne-Yo on the track and Remy talks about some actually love like situations. It's the smoothest track on the album and sounds like Ne-Yo could have used it on his album.

 

The David Banner produced track "I'm" is a nice track that Remy uses to show her punchline skills on the mic! The chorus has a you and me back and forth and she tries to prove why she's the top lady in the game.

 

Big Pun joins his protégé on the Alchemist produced "Thug Love". The beat is a definite rider on the car, very reminiscent of the west coast sound. Remy does a good job telling a story about the love she experiencing in the song and of course Pun does his thing nicely (RIP Pun!).

 

"Secret Location" is about the drug game and sounds very good over the beat. Remy has no problems calling herself the top dog (if you know what I mean) and uses this track to show that she can get unlady like when needed.

 

"Bilingual" is a interesting track because Remy does her raps in English and Spanish with help from Ivy Queen. "Guilty" is my type of track, a story track about a dark past with a hard beat! "Crazy" is slow down track that allows Remy to show her wittiness again with the pen,   Remy is joined by R&B sensation, Keyshia Cole on "What's Going On", a track about going through situations and feeling up and down on the experiences. Still is about the past experiences that led Remy to get to this point as a rapper. The track is doing the song justice with a piano beat and Remy talks about working for hours in the booth and being a mother and trying to be friends with people while doing her own thang! She also talks about her relationship with her brother that is touching and surprising.

 

Lastly "Reminisce" is about using her memory to think about how far she has come.

 

Overall I thought the album was filled with some very good tracks but the placement of them could have been better. I think that her flow was aggressive and she could also do her thing with the punches. Remy doesn't need to show how gangsta she is all the time because she has a lot of skill besides that but I guess that's natural. Most people know Remy for being on the mixtapes and I think she did a good job not to disappoint. I would have rather seen the track listing flipped though and saved the mushy or storyless stuff for later on the LP.

 

I'll give the album 4 GeoGlobes.

 

 

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