One-time Swishahouse affiliate, Houston native and Dirty South rapper Slim Thug has never pretended to be anything that he’s not; he’s as unapologetically iced up and relentlessly materialistic as they come. He’s been putting in work for years, both in the underground and briefly in the mainstream. His major label debut LP for Geffen Records, Already Platinum, released July of 2005, may have been rather mediocre by the standards he’d previously set for himself with his Swishahouse material, but Slim Thug’s future looks brighter with his crew, the aptly named Boss Hogg Outlawz.
The group members, all of which hail from Houston, Texas as well (and each has been rhyming just as long as their crew captain), the Boss Hogg Outlawz are a small glimmer of hope in Slim Thug’s dimming mainstream career. Serve & Collect, although released on Koch Records (a subsidiary of Geffen and also an independent label), is exactly what Slim Thug needs to keep his name on the tongues of southern Rap aficionados. With beats that will be bumping in any ride far into the summer and a slew of capable rappers at the helm, the Boss Hogg Outlawz’ Serve & Collect is exactly the fuel for the fire that Slim Thug could have used two short years ago.
Keeping in line with current releases from the south or, less generally, from Houston, most of Serve & Collect’s subject matter revolves around iced-out grills, spinners, balling, women and other such topics that have become synonymous with the latest trends in Hip-Hop. The only thing really keeping this album above the norm is Slim Thug and company’s rapping abilities. The Boss Hogg Outlawz are, arguably, better rappers than Slim Thug himself, though, and they create some of the more interesting moments on the album lyrically. Slim Thug is far too generic a rapper to carry an album by himself (as evidenced by Already Platinum) and having P.J., Killa Kyleon, Sir Daily, Rob Smallz and the other Outlawz on board certainly helps matters.
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