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Hometown: Thousand Oaks, Ca...
...grew up together in Cupertino, CA, where they say Asians are in the majority. They agree that, as young Asian Americans coming of age in “a suburban Asian enclave,” it was relatively easy for them to establish strong individual identities outside of their collective Asian American identity...
...title of Young Buck's first solo project, Straight Outta Ca$hville, is a throwback to 1989's Straight Outta Compton, the classic gang life manifesto from N.W.A. (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E, M.C. Ren and D.J. Yella). N.W.A.'s depictions of violence, often directed against the police, put Los Angeles on the hip hop map. Hailing from Nashville, Buck hopes to do for the Dirty South with Ca$hville what Compton did for the Wild West...
Buck, formerly a Cash Money Millionaire who—though still a millionaire—currently rolls with G-Unit, clearly takes a great deal of pride in his Southern roots. Most of the songs on Ca$hville are situated in his old Tennessee hustling grounds. In "Do It Like Me," Buck boasts: "I know I got a dirty mouth, bitch, I'm from the South / I'm nothin' like what you done seen or you done heard about." But from the gunshots that open the album to the gritty tales of life in the 'hood to the vicious threats...
There are a few fresh tracks on Ca$hville including "Let Me In," a club hit with a catchy staccato melody, and "Look At Me Now," in which a reflective Buck raps about "what these streets done done to me" over a bouncy beat by Denaun Porter (who produced the steel pan anthem "P.I.M.P." for 50 Cent). Unlike Compton, however, Ca$hville fails to inspire any awe or fear of Southern street culture. It is Tennessee, after...