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Warning Shots: Street Classics & Freestyles [PA] (CD - 2009)UPC: 00899381900920As low as $16.84 from CD Universe Artist: Saigon Label: Sure Shot Recordings Genre: R&B - East Coast Rap Album Description: Saigon opens his 2009 record, Warning Shots, Vol. 2, with the melancholy "Nothing Comes Easy." The Brooklyn rapper has a right to be frustrated. Sidetracked by a seven-year prison sentence, Saigon emerged ready to rhyme, rather quickly caught the ears of Atlantic Records, an... read more Saigon opens his 2009 record, Warning Shots, Vol. 2, with the melancholy "Nothing Comes Easy." The Brooklyn rapper has a right to be frustrated. Sidetracked by a seven-year prison sentence, Saigon emerged ready to rhyme, rather quickly caught the ears of Atlantic Records, and recorded The Greatest Story Never Told, a record he felt was his masterpiece, slated for 2005 release. Four years later, the story still had yet to be told, as the record was tied up in major-label red-tape. While he briefly quit the industry in a swirl of cyber-emotion, he redoubled his efforts and channeled his pent-up rage into his music. While ostensibly a follow-up to a 2001 street release, Warning Shots, Vol. 2 is more Saigon's heavily polished introduction to a wider audience. While his record's topics are far from original, and when he languishes in hip-hop cliché hell (see "For Some P***y"), a topic the rapper himself has decried, he stalls a bit. However, Saigon possesses an acrobatic wit and when his passion takes hold, as on "Fatherhood (Rayne Dior)," his ode to his one-year old daughter, something beautiful happens. While this may be a prelude to the unveiling of his purgatory mired "debut," there are plenty of hints on this record as to why Saigon stirred up such a buzz in the mid-'00s. ~ Jason Thurston minimize
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