Originally Posted by
claaa7
Released in 2012, Showbiz & AG's "Mugshot Music" was definitley one of my most anticipated albums in a long time. In the build up before it's release 5 singles were released that all banged HARD ("South Bronx Shit", "Suspended Animation", "Here & Now", "God is 4 Us", "Show & A.") which seemed to form the basis of a really, really DOPE album. however as time went on I guess they felt that these tracks had been out for so long already and they had recorded so much material together that they added another 10 songs to the pre-released singles and dropped "MugshotMusic: Preloaded" as a free album to build hype. the strategy seemed to work really well and I remember thinking like "if the mixtape is THIS FUCKING GOOD, imagine how sick the actual album is...".
next thing you know they dropped "MugshotMusic: Preloaded [The Remixes]" to iTunes, featuring a bunch of smashing remixes and some incredible new tracks ("Trapped", "Timeless", "Justice", "Do It 4"). so once the album actually dropped i have to say i was a bit dissapointed as "Preloaded" banged a lot harder overall to me. it's ill, and it definitely did grow on me, but it misses those definite stand-outs which would have been the original 5 singles. of course this might not matter much to anyone as all of the music is out there, and i'm glad we got to hear this amount of new Show & A tracks from this era but for someone who still fucks with vinyl and looks at catalouges by albums i just think "Mugshot Music" could have been done better.
if you put together the best songs from these three releases you got one hell of an album though, and either one of the three are good shit at any given moment. but i would have needed "South Bronx Shit" on wax LOL! what did y'all think of these releases and how do you view them now?
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