Baby DC - School Dayz (CD)

All Music Guide

Too hort's growing label empire continued with School Dayz, the first release from Baby DC, an 11-year-old rapper who worked with Ant Banks. Hip-hop fans familiar with Master P.'s Lil' Soldiers will know about what to expect here -- namely, a surprisingly squeaky-voiced kid trying to act as hard as his grown-up heroes in the hip-hop world. Whereas Master P. felt free to include almost as many obscenities on the Lil' Soldiers' album as the rest of his No Limit releases, Too hort and Ant Banks designed School Dayz so all content would be safe for kids of all ages. As such, the rhyme topics look back to early pop-rappers like Kid 'N Play or Kriss Kross instead of the thug-life tactics to which many producers resorted to move products. Baby DC does a good job; he's not only a solid rapper for his age, he's a solid rapper period, and the single "Candy Girl" is a fun update of the Jackson 5-type infatuations for the hip-hop age. Though he can't quite keep it up for the entire LP, Baby DC has... a lot of time to improve. - John Bush, All Music Guide Read more Less