Ching Ching

Have you read that interview with up and coming artist Ms. Jade on Sixshot.com? Well, she mentions the fact that she was taught by Petey Pablo and Timbaland how to flow over Timbo’s beats. That got me sceptical: What are we talkin’ about? A rap school or what? My thoughts went from “industry product” back to “that’s how it is, here and everywhere” pros and contras. Having learned how to flow or not, Ms. Jade’s album “Girl interrupted” persuades.

 Mainly produced by Timbaland, the album consists of up-to-date, bubbling types of beats and productions which kick the clubbers’s asses due to their Timbo-like twist. As far as the rap part of the album is concerned, Ms. Jade has a lot of different topics and a lot of different flows that she uses easily and makes them fit with the beat as if she used a nailgun. She’s definitely one of the tightest female rappers as far as flows and skills are concerned, even though it is kinda weird to know that she has been taught all that stuff. Well, anyway, the school’s diploma (meaning: Jade’s album) sounds great. The different topics and different flows make a lot of different tracks: We have “Ching Ching” feat. Nelly Furtado, which has been on video airplay for a couple of weeks now, and which is the album’s hit single, as only one part – the club thing. “Get Away” feat. Nesh is about a jealous girl and might also bounce your car due to the beat. “Ching Ching Part 2” feat. Timbaland uplifts the pace, and it uplifts the weigt. Definite clubbanger, too. “Dead Wrong”, the track with Nate Dogg, is sick: A great beat, and Ms. Jade rhymes a double timer that is interrupted by some very slow single timer rhymes, check that out! In the end of the album, Jade then goes deep with “Why You Tell Me That” feat. Lil’ Mo which is on a cheating boyfriend, and with “Keep Ur Head Up” w/ Nesh that is for the pregnant sisters without a man.

 Ms. Jade persuades both lyrically and musically. She’s got a lot of talent and a lot of different styles, she’s versatile and manages to sound hard and rough on the bangers but then again soft and sensitive on the more introverted tracks. The album’s problem is Timbaland in a certain way: His style is so special and his beats are so clubbish and bubbly that a whole album consisting of his productions somehow someway is too much: Either you don’t appreciate each and every beat as they would have deserved or you just skip certain tracks. Timbo might give an average album the so needed clubbanger, but a whole album… Well, it gets weird and nervous then. Nevertheless, this is an album worth buying. Best track on the record: “Different”.

 ***** out of SIX SHOTS.