With a wild cast of campaigners like Fat Joe, Just Blaze, and Jazzy Jeff, Dave Ghetto's debut album is all kinds of wonderful. The Camden MC talks real slow, but he’s quick with the metaphors, and more empathetic than preachy. Yes, he says on "The Game," "I’m tired of the kids who destroy and don’t build." But he’s more focused on "the seeds who can’t read but know the Ten Crack Commandments." Ghetto understands the power of narrative, and he paints his home town in Jersey with contrasting hues, juxtaposing his position as an elder with the plight of the boys on the corner. He fills the lead single, "Hey, Young World, Pt. 2," with entreaties, begging for peace from "these young cats with hammers who be wilin’ in the streets." Not that he’s so socially responsible (or complicated) he can’t denounce Cee-Lo’s catcalls on "Groupie Sex." Everybody loves a little moral tension, right?
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