Friday, November 2, 2007

200. Dalvin DeGrate - Met.A.Mor.Phic (2000)


WTF? Mr Dalvin? Are you crazy? This is how you start your blog? I can hear the comments now...

Im sure a lot of people used to wonder what exactly Mr Dalvin used to bring to Jodeci (I did) and upon listening to this album you may still find yourself scratching your head. Lets get one thing out of the way though, it sure wasn't his singing voice. Describing it as mediocre would be doing him a great service. His rapping was never much to write home about (not that it mattered back then) so that leaves us with....hmmm. You might be asking yourself "why is this fool putting this album in his top 200 and then talk shit about it?" Well thats the thing, I cant really figure it out. There are a lot of things Dalvin isn't great at and yet, somehow, he managed to make an album with a lot of good songs on it. Its weird. I don't know how much of that can be attributed to Dalvin's long time cohort Stevie J who produced the bulk of the tracks on here but I suspect that its the two of them together that resulted in this album sneaking into my top 200. This is no Jodeci album but if you aren't into vocal gymnastics and just like a good song then this might be the album for you.

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