Album Review: Statik Selektah- Stick 2 The Script

Statik Selektah is one of my favorite current producers. He can hook up a beat and his use of samples is always interesting. Here is my review of his 2nd 2008 release, Stick 2 The Script…

+Positive

Production on this album lives up to Statik Selektah’s standards which are pretty high. The best track in terms of production is “Get Out The Way”, where he uses some crazy foreign instrument along with a UGK sample to create a dope head-banger chorus for a track that kinda makes you want to go rough somebody up =) .

-Negative

The lyrical content on this album is pretty much the same as every other… Girls, money, drugs, and self-boasting. There are a few memorable punchlines throughout, (Check out Cassidy’s verse on “To The Top”) but overall the content of the songs were unoriginal.

+Positive

You can always tell what other rappers think of a producer by looking at the featuring artists of that producer’s album. In this case, there is no confusion that Statik Selektah is dope. The artists ripping his beats include MOP, Cassidy, Jadakiss, Phonte, Bun B, Freeway, Peedi Crakk, Q Tip, Termanology, Skyzoo, Joell Ortiz, Talib Kweli, Big Pooh, Consequence, Redman, Naledge, Reks, CL Smooth, Royce Da 5’9”, and more!

-Negative

A couple of the songs are a little boring. For example, “Destined To Shine” is pretty much a skip track. He got a couple upcoming rappers to spit verses about their rap journeys. It’s not necessarily bad, just nothing special.

Final Word:

Although not exactly the next “The Chronic”, Statik Selektah provides solid production throughout the entire album. Worth a few spins.

Grades:

Production: A-

Originality: B

Lyrical Content: B-

Lyrical Delivery/Style: B+

Top Tracks:

“On The Marquee”

“To The Top”

“Get Out The Way”

Overall Grade: B

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