Even for the shamelessly dull pop-rap album it is, Hate It or Love It is well below average: the beats are typically lifeless, and the downright goofy gangster posturing carries an expiration date of 2002. So after resolving a rather laughable feud with Ludacris over album royalties, Chingy returns to Disturbing Tha Peace with Hate It or Love It, a predictable celebration of wealth, money, andвЂ¦ well, mediocrity, to be honest. Chingy fans (yes, they exist - the people commenting on his YouTube videos with insight as eloquent as вЂњdiz iz mii song i b blastin diz in da carвЂќ) will be pleased to notice he still shuns the V in вЂњeverybodyвЂќ, as well as the H in вЂњwithвЂќ. The songвЂ™s most notable quality was its distinctly southern pronunciation of the word вЂњthereвЂќ as if it rhymed with вЂњfurвЂќ. Sensing a theme here? The average listener associates Chingy with his 2003 breakout hit вЂњRight ThurrвЂќ, a then-inescapable declaration of pop-rap blandness that heвЂ™s still attempting to follow up. chose the stage name Chingy because it was slang for a rich person, his ultimate ambition to further drive the message home, he named his debut album Jackpot.

Louis native ensures that all but the most loyal crunk devotees will invariably choose the former. By naming his record Hate It or Love It, the St. Could this be because, while Lupe sets a standard for innovation and positivity in a genre so often accused of the opposite, Chingy embodies everything negative about hip-hopвЂ™s modern reputation? ItвЂ™s darkly fitting for both albums to appear on the same date: on the song вЂњDumb It DownвЂќ, Fiasco ridiculed negative hip-hop clichГ©s, sarcastically exclaiming вЂњPour champagne on a bitch!вЂќ On вЂњRoll on `EmвЂќ, Chingy repeats вЂњPour some candy on that bitch!вЂќ sans irony, and proceeds to encapsulate every distasteful stereotype imaginable. Yet Chingy wisely avoided public humiliation by refraining from pointless public braggadocio. Like 50 Cent before him, ChingyвЂ™s Hate It or Love It shared a release date with another massively anticipated rap album: Lupe FiascoвЂ™s the Cool.

Remember that whole Kanye West/50 Cent feud last year? Remember how silly it was? The two rap moguls seemingly overshadowed the 6th anniversary of 9/11 with simultaneous album releases, inevitably leading to KanyeвЂ™s sales victory, a potential nail in the coffin of FiddyвЂ™s career.

Chingy hate it or love it album cover