It’s hard to believe that St. Louis rapper J-Kwon first arrived on the scene four years ago. His debut single, Tipsy, invaded every club and house party across the world and helped the Missouri-native reach gold certification on his introductory album, Hood Hop. Following his initial success, Kwon revealed to DJBooth that he received a label deal for Hood Hop Entertainment through his parent company, Jive Records. Although shortly after releasing a collaboration with MTV’s Andy Milonakis, and receiving little promotion towards his sophomore album Louisville Slugger, J-Kwon and his project were dropped from the label. Now independent and ready to make ’08 his return into the game, we are treated to the radio-ready Boo Boo (Holding Me Down), performed, composed and produced all by the man himself. Does J-Kwon have what it takes to start the climb back towards to top of the mountain?
This isnt bad. After Tipsy was so good and such a big song though it is hard for him to release singles because they are never better than it was. I think people will rate him lower just for that.
This deserves to be in rotation... I’ll give him props for the good work all by himself, that’s impressive; I only expect this kind of quality from Akon, R. Kelly, or something like that.
I like this. He did all the work on this song himself? That's pretty impressive. I think we'll hear from this guy and Wale a lot in '08. At least, some quality songs.
In my opinion, I think Kwon should focusing on producing/songwriting. There are definitely ohter artists out there that could spit this track better (Songz, Cassidy, even BowWoW come to mind), but the production is top-notch and the lyrics are above average.
Leaving Jive might have been a blessing in disguise for J-Kwon, they have never done well for rappers. It took UGK damn near five albums to get any promotion. This will be a hit.
hmmmm.. is it me or does this guy look like a thugged out "The Dream"?
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well this sounds like <B>Bow wow</B> so that little dude better watch out, this could be his stand in lol!
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<I><B>its plain and not quite lame so 6-10
I said it before and I'll say it again. I thought J-kwon would be so much more than a one-hit wonder. I think he still has marketability and a song like this is what he needs to stick with. When I heard the hard tracks from him, it just doesn't sound like him. He needs to stay with the feel good type of music and songs for the ladies and he will be good. This track is pretty tight. The beat that he produced is good and he rocks on this. It has potential...
As a St. Louisan, i believe that this is a pretty good song, i don't think its better then Tipsy, but hey he by hiself right now...so, this ain't that bad for him being on his own.
That song is hot and ya'll know it....For this to be his first album to produce and write for himself, ya'll need to get up off him......He's got several other songs but this is the one he chose to be his 1st single.....STOP HATIN!!!
NOTHING COMPARED TO TIPSY but it has potential thats y artist should neva come out with that big of a record becuz it can either make them or break them and it usually breaks them more that it makes them!!!!!!!
The production is crazy the lyrics are ok 4 jkwon he shudnt have cut his hair tho. But this is definitely gonna climb the charts its super comercial like the kid is doing his thing all the lil teens would fill this plus people are starting to catch on he got 25,000+ pays on his myspace page THUMBS UP TO JKWON
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