DJ Jooz Presents Statz 441: You Ain't Built Like Me

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When Mr. Givenchy Royal  AKA Statz441 grabs the mic' he commands all the attention with catchy word play and staying true the infamous gritty southern style of FLA. Preparing for his next and most anticipated album he prepares us for what to expect on his latest mix tape collaboration with DJ Jooz titled “You Ain’t Built Like Me”.

The opening of the album starts off in full drive with Statz flowing over a Yes Rock sample (Owner of a lonely heart).   

Statz displays his word play and braggadocios flow on the album’s title track Built like me. Following the opening song Built like me is the album’s high light song “Outta Here” where Statz surprisingly enough holds his own with Hip Hop’s latest tycoon “Featuring Lil’ Wayne”. Unfortunately, Lil Wayne didn’t give a star studded performance on this song leaving Statz to carry most of the weight on his own. 

The album finds itself going downhill towards the middle and makes an attempt to pick up the pace on the Song Play in it. Easily mistaken for a Plies knock off he does his best to hold the ladies attention while describing his sexual skills over a Regina Bell sample. The song is catchy however, it’s very unoriginal. It seems that Statz seems to have slight identity crises throughout the album with the various style switch ups ranging from Plies, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy. However, on the song 'Living to Die for tomorrow'  we find Statz at his most personal moments of the entire mix tape. The momentum picks back up at the end of the mix tape on the track Vision Mistake. An instant club banger and radio friendly song produced by 'B.O.U.L.E.' Vision Mistake has a very sexy upbeat vibe and has the potential to be one of the most popular club songs for the summer of 2009. 

In my opinion this was a very well put together collaboration between Statz and Jooz and overall the mix tape is worth checking out and it’s an exceptional prequel to his up and coming album.