It isn’t just Ross that takes one straight to South Beach, it’s the smooth instrumentals accompanied by the track’s laid-back style. Ain’t no bitches here just the homies baby… Yeah right.” Once again the listener is taken into the party lifestyle of the Lemairt Park native and Dom’s carefree attitude shines through.ĭom’s Rick Ross collaboration “Gold Alpinas” is the Yellow Album‘s “ridin’” song. Similar to much of the album, the cut is best explained by the opening interlude from Too $hort: “ I know you think I’m lyin’ baby but I’m really workin.’ I’m up all night in the studio and I’ll be home soon. “Don’t Call Me” is one of four tracks produced by THC and features Too $hort. section with women, smoke and Henny aplenty. It takes one right to back of the club in a V.I.P. The aforementioned “My Type of Party” follows and is probably the antithesis of Dom’s usual album headliner, giving the listener a synthesized and almost Chopped and Screwed version of Dom Kennedy. The track makes nice utilization of the keyboard and features Dom’s trademark playa-type attitude. “We Ball” features TDE frontman Kendrick Lamar and is produced by the heavily-buzzed Chase N Cashe.

While almost all production was taken over by someone other than those behind the boards of a traditional Dom record, what was familiar was his collaboration with Fly Union on track 2, “Been Thuggin.’” In the subsequent track, Dom spends little time in bringing out the big guns. The product of a DJ Quik-inspired beginning, Dom Kennedy strays slightly from the Westside legend in this effort. 2011 summer classins like “Grind’n” and “O.P.M.” were replaced by spacey club cuts like “My Type of Party” and “Gold Alpinas.”

In contrast to From the Westside with Love II, the Yellow Album utilized more synthesizers. In what was surely an introspective effort, the Yellow Album gave longtime Dom Kennedy supporters something quite different from the usual summer-released, Westside, Impala-riding music.

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