Track Listing
1. Step Daddy's Home
2. What About It - (featuring Nature Boy)
3. It's Summertime - (featuring Chimere/Ms Flawless)
4. Keep It Gangsta - (featuring Blow/G-Life/Skinny Man)
5. Imposter
6. Uh Huh
7. Step Daddy
8. Do You Like This Hitman? - (featuring Kizzy Rock)
9. Thug Life - (featuring Dro/Montana)
10. Got Gatz! Got Cash!
11. Bloodline - (featuring Montana/Skinny Man/Neko/G-Life/Dro)
12. My Life - (featuring G-Life/Neko/Yung Phate/Mo Dirty)
13. Thank Yall
14. Step Daddy - (Remix, remix, featuring Ms. Flawless)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Blow, Chimere, Dro, G Life, G-Life, Kizzy Rock, Mo Dirty, Montana, Ms Flawless, Ms. Flawless, Nature Boy, Neko, Skinny Man, Yung Phate | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Hitman Sammy Sam, Nature Boy, Chimere, Mo Dirty, Ms. Flawless, Blow, Montana, Yung Phate, G Life, Skinny Man, Kizzy Rock, Dro, Neko.
Producers include: Rodney Hill, Tim "Lil Werm" Jett, Beat In Azz, Midnight Black, The Lambs.
Personnel: Midnight Black (vocals, keyboards, programming); Kizzy Rock, Mo Dirty, G-Life, Montana , Nature Boy, Skinny Man (vocals); Zachary Scott (bass guitar); Mike "Hitman" Wilson (background vocals).
Audio Mixers: Alex Nesmith; Scott Robertson; Billy Hume.
Recording information: ColliPark Studio, Atlanta, GA; Platinum Recordings, Atlanta, GA; STR Studios, Atlanta, GA; The Zone, Atlanta, GA.
Photographer: Zach Wolfe.
Atlanta-area rapper Hitman Sammy Sam blew up all over the south with the infectious, oddball anthem "Step Daddy." With its children singing nursery rhymes, and "you ain't my daddy" call-and-response hook, its beat made for roller-skating mixed with the MC's southern growl, "Step Daddy" is a crunk "Double Dutch Bus," a hard-to-shake ditty and can't-hardly-miss pop crossover hit. The rest of Hitman's major label debut, fittingly titled THE STEP DADDY, reveals him to be far from simply a one-trick pony or bubblegum rapper.
THE STEP DADDY opens with "What About It?" on which Hitman flows in angry, Gravediggaz style over the Halloween theme, pounding his chest, releasing the frustration of his years of struggle before finally signing a major-label deal. While he smooths out the beat on "It's Summertime," his throatier-than-DMX vocals balance the melody for a darker, but undeniably true summer groove. On "Uh Huh," he flashes his Dirty South badge as he trudges through a hypnotic, molasses-in-syrup beat followed by the ultimate contrast of the refreshing breeze of the title hit. THE STEP DADDY proves Hitman Sammy Sam a multi-talented rapper who deserves to stick around longer than your average artist with a successful novelty hit.
Hitman Sammy Sam's debut album, The Step Daddy, is most notable for its runaway novelty hit, "Step Daddy." The humorous dance/rap interpolation of "Double Dutch Bus" is built largely on a bouncy, distinctly Southern beat, and back-and-forth vocals about how stepfathers often get no love (a kid's voice chants, "you ain't my daddy!," while Sammy Sam responds, "shut up!," and so forth). It's a very improbable hit, but it's just so damned fun-spirited that it's hard to resist, especially with its dance/rap overtones ("do the step daddy!," Sammy Sam chants over and over). The rest of the album is essentially run-of-the-mill Dirty South with a few occasional standouts like "It's Summertime," but that's okay because most likely you'll be playing the title track and its mom-featuring remix over and over anyhow. [The clean version edits moments of profanity.] ~ Jason Birchmeier
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