Many No Limit fans and followers will attest to this being Beats by the Pound’s best producing job on a No Limit record. In second place is P’s brother, Silkk the Shocker’s, sophomore album Charge It 2 da Game. The production is quite varied as the Beats by the Pound team play with various sounds, synths, and drum patterns along this indo-enhanced journey. Many of No Limit’s future albums get criticized for sounding too much alike, but Ghetto D truly sounds like nothing else in the No Limit catalogue (and that could also be a double-edged sword). Every single one of the beats bang and, thanks to P’s production team, his generic rhymes have new life breathed into them. He truly has them to thank for the success that Ghetto D has turned into. Very dirty, obviously low-budget, but still worth bumping, P is served the best beats of his career here.
If anyone follows No Limit, or once did, they should be well aware that they don’t skimp on guest appearances. Most of the guests are No Limit related and Ghetto D is no different. With so many of them this will probably feel more like a compilation than a Master P solo album, but the guests were crucial to any No Limit album’s chart success. I’ll put it very plainly, some are fairly decent and some are pretty bad. Fiend, Mia Ex, Mr. Serv-On, Pimp C, and C-Murder are names you should look out for while Big Ed is unusually weak, as is Lil’ Gottie Gambino on the album’s closer ("Burbons and Lacs"). But the positive that comes from loading your album with guest appearances when you’re Master P is that some of these rappers are actually far superior than you are on the mic device. That happens to be the case here.
What can I say about Ghetto D that hasn’t already been stated by other No Limit fans? It’s crucial to your collection if you’re a No Limit fan. It captures Master P in his prime and, more importantly, captures some of the better No Limit soldiers, as well as Beats by the Pound, in their prime. It’s an essential album and with the recent re-release, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t own it.
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