December 22, 2000
GHETTO POSTAGE
By DARRYL STERDAN

GHETTO POSTAGE
Master P
(No Limit / EMI)

When hip-hop mogul Percy Miller "retired" from rap to pursue his hoop dreams a coupla years back, he fulfilled an old show biz truism: Leave 'em wanting more. Then his b-ball career went nowhere, he came out of "retirement" a year later, and now he's validating another old show biz aphorism: Quit while you're ahead. Once the pioneer, architect and undisputed king of Dirty South gangsta rap, P continues the creative slide that began with '98s The Last Don and last year's Only God Can Judge Me, tossing off yet another batch of unmemorable rhymes about bee-yatches and gangstas and Scarface and soldiers and blah blah blah over another set of unmemorable, boom-boom-bap beats. Hell, he barely even says "Uhhhhhnnnnn!" anymore -- now his signature line appears to be, "Ya heard me?" Which is kinda like Little Richard trading his "Whoo!" for a "Yessiree!" Ghetto Postage just doesn't deliver.

Track Listing 1.Intro
  02.Bout Dat
  03.Don Is Back
  04.Doo Rags
  05.'B' I Like
  06.My Three Uncles
  07.Golds In They Mouth
  08.Problems
  09.Poppin' Them Collars
  10.I Don't Give Ah What
  11.Twerk That Thang
  12.Life I Live
  13.Souljas
  14.The Real
  15.Pockets Gone' Stay Fat
  16.My Babooski
  17.Still Ballin'
  18.Soulja Boo
  19.Hush
  20.Roll How We Roll
  21.Would You
  22.It Don't Get No Better
  23.Always Come Back To You