Kottonmouth Kings

The Green Album - Skyline.net Review

Whoever said that you couldn’t be productive or successful while smoking an abundant amount of weed, probably hasn’t had the pleasure of meeting the Kottonmouth Kings. For you see they are 7 of the most THC’ed out guys, even more than Cypress Hill (I know it is hard to believe) and they have managed to stay around for more than 14 years and produce ten studio full-lengths to their credit. Of course this could be because they have loads of interesting characters in the band from the lead vocalists Brad “Daddy X”, Dustin “D-Loc,” and Johnny, to the mentally challenged nature of their “mascot” Pakelika, or it could be because the stickiest of the icky gives them special powers.

As with the rest of KmK’s albums, The Green Album continues the trend of many tracks, all of which are stoner hits being filled with references to weed and munchies. For those doubting the magic of a white rapper still, you obviously haven’t heard KmK before, they are like the Wu-Tang Clan if the clan was a hydroponics club. Of course the album is filled with cliché things such as, over abundant gun shots and lyrics that are built for club music (great lyrical skill, but they spend most of their time talking about girls/weed/booze/money/etc etc), but it all seems to fall by the wayside when you let the album spin.

“The Green Album” is simply filled with tons of catchy songs about everyone’s favorite plant, so it’s hard to get mad at it. Mellow rap-fests appear in songs like “Blaze Of Glory,” “Trippin’,” and “Freeworld,” as more complex country/rock beats come up in tracks such as “Pack Your Bowls,” and “Plant A Seed,” and club beats are also aplenty. This record has almost every style that you could want from several vocalists/drums/a turntable (and whatever a “hydro-mechanix” is). So while I believe that many people grew out of the phase bands of the past such as Twisted, Kottonmouth Kings have always been able to represent what they care about most in tales and lyrics that never get old.

Not to mention that Tech N9Ne makes an appearance on the effort and he is amazing. So don’t go on a hatin’ spree. KmK are pretty linear with their love for the cannabis, which causes the lyrics to rarely change. But “The Green Album” has given us over an hour and 17 minutes of music, some of which is pretty addictive and could have you grinding some girls butt in the club, some of which that has deep meanings, and some that are just chill rap jams that let you smoke your weed in peace. But these guys have survived a while for a reason, people love their green leafs and their rap, so a few problems can be over looked while we help plant a seed.

Score: 7.5 (out of 10)