Fat Joe & Raekwon Are “Pushing Keys” (Listen & Download)

As I wrote on my review for his "Darkside" album, I'm not really sure why everyone seems to have decided Fat Joe was wack. Sure 50 put a bruising on him and he's put out the occasional weak track, but overall he's still making some pretty damn dope hip-hop, including new release "Pushing Keys".

Continuing with the grittier sound of "Darkside", "Pushing Keys" takes a soul-laced, epically banging beat from Mark Henry and let's Joey Crack go to town, picking up a monologue from Raekwon as long as he's at it. There might be some die hard G-Unit loyalists left out there who will hate on this, but otherwise, I find it hard to believe folks will have a bad word. Then again, I don't understand why Joe started getting hated on in the first place, so who knows.

(By the way, all praise due to Raekwon, but this won't exactly go down in the ad-lib hall of fame. "If you got real money you can't count it...cause that's how much money there got to be on the table." Um...ok then. And I'm pretty sure there's only one Mediterranean: "Don't get drowned in one of the Mediterraneans.")

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