Pras - Ghetto Supastar

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CD Release

October 27, 1998

Label

Sony

Number of Discs

1

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Track List

1. Hallelujah
2. Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)
3. 1st Phone Interlude
4. What 'Cha Wanna Do
5. Blue Angels
6. Can't Stop The Shining (Rip Rock Pt. 2)
7. Get Your Groove On
8. Frowsey
9. Dirty Cash
10. For The Love Of This
11. Wha' What Wha' What
12. 2nd Phone Interlude
13. Lowriders
14. Yeah 'Eh Yeah 'Eh
15. Murder Dem
16. 3rd Phone Interlude
17. Amazing Grace
18. Final Interlude

Additional Information

It's difficult to tell whether Pras's debut, Ghetto Supastar (riding on the infectious 1998 summer jam of the same name), is intended as an 18-track infomercial for the newest rap collective, the Refugee Camp (star campers include Canibus, Most Wanted, and head counselor Wyclef Jean) or an elaborate parody of self-proclaimed rap prodigies. The album opens with a "Hallelujah" chorus, closes with "Amazing Grace," and stuffs the middle with weak Dolly Parton interpolations, weaker rhymes ("Two guns blazing / Purple hazing" on "For the Love of This"), and not one, but four separate tracks chock full of shamelessly scripted shout-outs from a horde of bizarre star supporters. (Donald Trump? Mike Tyson? Sting? You haven't heard this many hard-up celebrities since New York City cabs started talking.) There are a lot of reasons this album fails, but the most flagrant is this: for all the effort expended here to raise himself up as the next great Hip-Hop Hope, between the Refugee Camp agenda and the sea of guest vocalists, Pras's presence is nearly invisible. --Todd Levin - Amazon.com