Gangsta Boo - Enquiring Minds (CD)

All Music Guide

The first proper Three 6 Mafia solo album, Gangsta Boo's Enquiring Minds quickly elevated her to celebrity status among Three 6 Mafia's cult audience of fanatics, and also garnered her substantial respect from both her broader set of fans and from the Southern rap scene as well. In all honesty, it's a fairly standard affair for producers Juicy "J" and DJ Paul, who had their duties down to assembly line efficiency at this point in late 1998, churning out multiple records a year. Yet the fact that Gangsta Boo is a female MC in a genre that tends to hold a rather misogynist stance against women and also tends to be overly lacking in female MCs is indeed notable. This anomaly actually works in Gangsta Boo's favor here, though, as she is able to toy with such intriguing topics as sexual politics and being hardcore from female point of view. Sure, this album isn't a masterpiece, but it is a bit of landmark given Gangsta Boo's gender and her respect-demanding performance. - Jason Birchmeier, ...All Music Guide Read more Less