Chrome: Straight To The Pros

Artist: Chrome

Album: Straight To The Pros

Release Date: October 25th, 2005

Most Memorable Lyric: "Look out, here comes the gutta mane."

Video Review

Written Review

The title should have been "Straight to the Garbage Bin." Chrome's album suffers severely from poor execution on every level throughout the album.

Hypnotize Minds (the group Juicy J helped start) is one of the most prominent and successful southern hip-hop labels in the game today. With a legacy dating back over 20 years, one would expect Chrome could have spit hot fire.Unfortunately, this is not the case. Chrome has more in common with a Eskimo as compared to Mario after finding a fire flower. The album is downright terrible, and even features a song referencing the old Spiderman theme song.

Chrome, your lucky I just got some from Mary Jane,
or else I would kick your ass man! Biting my Spidey Swag!

Chrome should change his name to Zero, because this is how many fucks I give about this album and how many you should give too. From the production, beats, lyrics and overall flow, the songs are just not appealing in any way. It is not a surprise that this album (and artist) never caught the ears of hip-hop fanatics.

Almost all of the 19 tracks follow the typical story we've heard in hardcore rap before; a young man grinding, trying to survive with limited resources all while dogging the police, and dicking down thots. Selling drugs, using drugs, getting through the struggle, yada yada yada...  It is done though in a very boring matter though, nothing fresh. Chrome "rides the beat" on every song, which is not good (riding the beat is when your rap pattern matches the variance of the beat on a song.) 

The only notable song on the album  is This is My Life. On the track, Chrome goes in on how he stays motivated on success and staying positive, all while haters and society try to pull him down. Even though this is the best song on the album, there is nothing really special about it.

To top of my rant of how bad the album is, let's talk about the outro. Normally, the outro typically ties together the complete album, or fills in the missing puzzle piece of the story told throughout the album for the aha! moment. Not this album. Instead,  Juicy J just shouts out when other albums are dropping for Hypnotize Minds, and that's it. I have never ran into this before! I could understand if it was a mixtape, but seriously dude? It's your album and you did not say one single word on the outro? Crazy.

Overall, this album is very forgettable, and I will never listen to it again. Do yourself a favor, and don't waste any of your precious time listening to this album or artist.

Rating: 1 out of 5