Second Round's on Me
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Released | July 28, 2006 | |||
Recorded | 2004–06 | |||
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Length | 62:25 | |||
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Second Round's on Me is the second studio album by rapper Obie Trice and is his final album released under Shady Records. The track "Wanna Know" can be heard on the HBO series Entourage in the episode "The Sundance Kids" and also in the game Fight Night: Round 3 for the Xbox 360 as well as the PS3. The album contains a predominance of guest appearances from members of his Detroit crew Trife Life. It was released in the Netherlands on July 28, 2006, and in the United States on August 15, 2006, after over a year of delays.
Background
[edit]The first single released from the album was "Snitch" featuring Akon, with a music video directed by Jessy Terrero. Both performers can be seen and heard on the CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the episode "Poppin' Tags" performing the hit song, and the music video can now be watched on Yahoo Music. The second single is "Cry Now" and the remix with Kuniva, Bobby Creekwater, Ca$his and Stat Quo can be found on the Eminem Presents: The Re-Up album. The third single is "Jamaican Girl". The Album features artists such as Eminem, 50 Cent, Akon, Trey Songz, Brick & Lace, Trick Trick, Big Herk and Nate Dogg.
Reception
[edit]Commercial
[edit]The album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200 with 74,000 copies sold in its first week.[1] As of January 2016, the album has sold 240,000 units.[2]
The track "Wanna Know" was used for a Science Channel commercial, in episode 5 of Friday Night Lights, and the video game Fight Night Round 3.[citation needed]
Critical
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 48/100[3] |
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Entertainment Weekly | C+[6] |
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RapReviews | 8.5/10[10] |
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Second Round's on Me received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 48, based on 9 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]
J-23 of HipHopDX gave high praise to Trice for having more of a presence on his own record to display his improved lyricism, vocal delivery and choice in beats, saying, "[T]hese days everyone likes to think that every respectable artist has one "classic" in their catalogue. If that is the case, Second Round's On Me will likely go down as Obie's."[7] Brendan Frederick of XXL praised Trice and Eminem for having "superb attention to visual details and calculated rhyme structure" and an "expanded production palate" throughout the album to deliver in telling "bleak oratories of Detroit's streets" but also highlighted Rotem's contributions on "Mama" and "Obie Story" for allowing Trice to show "historical context to his struggles", concluding with: "Filled with unflinching street tales and dense lyrical couplets, Second Round should be sipped slowly for full potency. No shots to the head necessary."[13] Thomas Golianopoulos of Vibe praised Eminem for supplying Trice's "sinister outlook" with "equally gloomy production" on tracks like "Violent" and "The Ballad of Obie", but highlighted "Mama" for showcasing Trice with "a much sunnier disposition."[12] A writer for AllMusic said: "Leaning heavily on a mid-paced, paranoid gangsta rap production style, evidenced on tracks like "They Wanna Kill Me" and "Snitch" (a duet with Akon), Trice stakes his claim as a tough, swaggering performer whose self-awareness never undermines his hard, ghetto edge."[5]
Entertainment Weekly writer Gilbert Cruz gave the album a C grade, calling it "a more subdued affair" than Trice's debut because it lacked Timbaland and Dr. Dre's "jaunty beats" and with more "repetitive, simplistic production" from Eminem, concluding that "Second Round's on Me does have moments of cross-genre joy, but this round goes down like a cheap well drink."[6] Peter Relic of Rolling Stone wrote: "Full of creepy, minor-key themes and powered by homicidal mania, Second Round is wholly lacking in the playfulness that made his debut, Cheers, a varied delight."[11] PopMatters contributor Mike Joseph gave credit to Trice for having a "solid" flow, but criticized the "tired, predictable subject matter" throughout the track listing and Eminem's production feeling "agonizingly predictable" and "substandard" to distract listeners from the hate-filled material, concluding that: "Second Round's on Me just emphasizes everything that's wrong with gangsta rap, which started out as admirable street reporting and has regressed into wanton violence which should be viewed as a cartoon, but a generation of urban youth has unfortunately come to accept as gospel."[9]
Track listing
[edit]No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Intro" | 0:37 | ||
2. | "Wake Up" | 2:51 | ||
3. | "Violent" |
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| 4:04 |
4. | "Wanna Know" |
| Emile | 4:03 |
5. | "Lay Down" |
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| 2:54 |
6. | "Snitch" (featuring Akon) |
| Akon | 4:01 |
7. | "Cry Now" |
| Witt & Pep | 4:00 |
8. | "Ballad of Obie Trice" |
| Eminem | 2:54 |
9. | "Jamaican Girl" (featuring Brick & Lace) |
| Eminem | 3:38 |
10. | "Kill Me a Mutha" |
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| 3:21 |
11. | "Out of State" |
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| 2:30 |
12. | "All of My Life" (featuring Nate Dogg) |
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| 4:15 |
13. | "Ghetto" (featuring Trey Songz) | J.R. Rotem | 4:20 | |
14. | "There They Go" (featuring Big Herk, Eminem and Trick-Trick) |
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| 3:49 |
15. | "Mama" (featuring Trey Songz) |
| J.R. Rotem | 4:09 |
16. | "24's" |
| J.R. Rotem | 3:18 |
17. | "Everywhere I Go" (featuring 50 Cent) |
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| 3:41 |
18. | "Obie Story" |
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| 3:55 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
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19. | "Terrible" |
| Mr. Lee | 3:55 |
20. | "Luv" (featuring Jaguar Wright) | 9th Wonder | 3:54 |
- Notes
- Sample credits
- "Cry Now" - "Blind Man" as performed by Bobby Blue Band.
- "Wanna Know" - "It Couldn't Be Me" as performed by Power Of Zeus.
Chart positions
[edit]Album chart positions
[edit]Year | Album | Chart positions | ||
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Billboard 200 | Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums | Top Canadian Albums | ||
2006 | Second Round's on Me | 8 | 5 | 4 |
Album singles
[edit]Single information |
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"Snitch"
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"Cry Now"
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"Jamaican Girl"
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References
[edit]- ^ Hasty, Katie (August 23, 2006). "Aguilera Takes No. 1 Amid All New Top Five". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Archived from the original on February 7, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
- ^ Gelenidze, Remy (January 7, 2016). "Worldwide Album Sales Of All Current And Former Shady Records Artists". Southpawer. Archived from the original on January 8, 2016. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
- ^ a b "Second Round's On Me by Obie Trice". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
- ^ Adaso, Henry. "Obie Trice - Second Round's On Me". About.com. Archived from the original on July 18, 2012. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ a b "Second Round's On Me - Obie Trice". AllMusic. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ a b Cruz, Gilbert (August 11, 2006). "Second Round's on Me". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
- ^ a b J-23 (August 17, 2006). "Obie Trice - Second Round's On Me". HipHopDX. Cheri Media Group. Archived from the original on May 6, 2010. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
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- ^ a b Joseph, Mike (August 20, 2006). "Obie Trice: Second Round's on Me". PopMatters. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
- ^ Juon, Steve 'Flash' (August 15, 2006). "Feature for August 15, 2006 - Obie Trice's "Second Round's on Me"". RapReviews. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ a b Relic, Peter (September 7, 2006). "Obie Trice: Second Round's On Me". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. Archived from the original on February 20, 2008. Retrieved February 20, 2008.
- ^ a b Golianopoulos, Thomas (August 2006). "Obie Trice 'Second Round's On Me'". Vibe. 14 (8). Vibe Media: 140. ISSN 1070-4701. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ a b Frederick, Brendan (June 2, 2006). "Obie Trice - Second Round's On Me". XXL. Townsquare Media. Archived from the original on January 3, 2021. Retrieved January 3, 2021.