Tahmac: Welcome 2 Tahmac
Tahmac releases Welcome 2 Tahmac
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Monday, 08, Jun 2009 09:20
Tahmac Entertainment, out now.
In a nutshell...
Cheesy, derivative hip-hop for ten-year olds
What's it all about?
Latest album from Tahmac including singles Lavish Lifestyle and Give Back (featuring ex-Sugababe Mutya Buena). The conventional American rap sound is interspersed a more some anglicised feel, including collaborations with some key British artists.
Who's it by?
Brooklyn producer and rapper Tahmac has previously collaborated with the likes of Anthony Roach from the Charlatans, Erick Sermon, Javine, Ciara, Onyx, Leona Lewis, Redman and Aretha Franklin.
As an example...
"We do it big/ Oh boy you know what it is/I'm internationally known and I be handlin' my biz/We go hard/'Cos I be doing the job/And every time they see the kid they say 'Oh my God.' " - We Do It Big
Likelihood of a trip to the Grammys
As an artist, despite courting the mainstream, Tahmac has not so far attracted this kind of interest and it is difficult to see how this album is likely to convince them.
What the others say
"Party-hard hip hop crash lands in the form of Brooklyn boy Tahmac. If you're after some seriously danceable beats and don't mind a heap of bragging, a lot of egocentricity and a bit of sexism, press 'purchase' now." - BBC Music
So is it any good?
The best songs on this album are the ones where Tahmac collaborates. This is all relative though, as none of the songs on Welcome to Tahland are anything better than cheap, third rate imitations of chavtastic commercial R 'n' B songs, from ten years ago.
Do It Big is by far the best song on the album, but this is a mixed blessing from Tahmac's perspective, given that Nyah completely outclasses him in every respect.
Single Give Back, is mellow and adequate but once again, unmemorable aside from Mutya's vocals.
It is really not worth debating whether or not This is Tahland is sexist... Yes, it probably is a bit but this is hardly the point when the entire album is cringy, unoriginal and poorly put together.
Whatever your taste in music, this is a terrible, terrible album which offers nothing except the promise of stealing 48 minutes of your life that you'll never get back.
1/10
Julia Ross