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MC Eiht Featuring CMW - We Come Strapped (CD)

We Come Strapped
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Album Details: We Come Strapped

Release Date:07/19/1994
Label:Sony
UPC:074645769622

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User Reviews: We Come Strapped

  • Overall:

    His Best Album!

    By Robert  Feb 11, 2002

    Every song is tight on here! If you like 'Deep Cover' by Dr.Dre, you'll love this. "Def Wish 3" and "We Come Strapped" are the hardest cuts on here. This is back when people made real stuff. "Compton Bomb" is my personal favorite. This might be the h...ardest album of the 90's next to 'Doggystyle' and 'The Chronic'! Read more Less

  • Overall:

    Essential Eiht

    By dehydrateddog  Oct 14, 2001

    It may feature CMW, but this is Eiht's masterpeice. The prod. The lyrics/rhymes. One of the best West Coast gangsta albums of alltime. Essential for fans of CMW... and if you like Eiht, you must have this disc.

Pro Reviews: We Come Strapped

  • All Music Guide

    Fresh from his small role in the 1993 film Menace II Society, MC Eiht followed "Streiht up Menace," his breakthrough hit single from the film's soundtrack, with We Come Strapped. The album may be his full-length solo debut, but Eiht is no rookie here. He had come of age as a member of Compton's Most Wanted, a semi-successful gangsta rap group, and brought along the defunct group's producer, DJ Slip, to join him. And that's pretty much all there is to this album, Eiht and Slip. Make no mistake: We Come Strapped is a sparse and straightforward album, just Eiht's ghetto rhymes and Slip's showering keyboards. And that's it: no extensive guest appearances, no P-Funk interpolations, no lavish extravagances, just Eiht's rhymes and Slip's keyboards. It all seems incredibly unlikely now, especially when you consider that this album debuted atop ~Billboard's RB album chart, but sometimes simplicity can be a beautiful thing, and that's definitely the case here. Take, for instance, "All for Money,..." the album highlight. Here Eiht rhymes gently about doing whatever it takes to get paid while Slip's keyboards hover alongside some smooth, jazzy guitar and "la la"s in the distance. It's simple, for sure, but it's distinct and evocative. This can be said for much of We Come Strapped, a distinctly West Coast album that evokes the glamorous-yet-grimy, sunny-yet-seedy streets of Compton as well as, if not better than, any other album from the golden era of G-funk. On successive albums, Eiht and Slip developed their sound and ironically met dwindling success. This is because We Come Strapped is very much of its era, a time when West Coast gangsta rap was both new and dangerous -- in sum, exciting. Few albums from this era were more seminal than We Come Strapped. - Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

MC Eiht

Veteran West Coast gangsta rapper MC Eiht dedicated much of his life to rap, beginning his seminal career with Compton's Most Wanted (CMW) while only a teenager. Despite his youth, Eiht's contributions helped catapult CMW to national fame in 1990 with It's a Compton Thang. The group followed the lead of fellow Compton gangsta rappers N.W.A., but were a bit less controve... Read more