Let's Get Ready [PA]

Performer: Mystikal
Artist: Outkast; Da Brat; Nivea; Petey Pablo
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Contains 3 hidden tracks after "Neck Uv Da Woods." Personnel includes: Mystikal, Da Brat, Outkast, Petey Pablo, Nivea (rap vocals); Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo (various instruments); Preston Crump, Amos Singleton (guitar, bass); Donny Mathis, Craig Love (guitar); Marvin "Chaz" Parkman (synthesizer); Rajinder "Conga Man" Kala (congas); Latrelle (background vocals). Producers include: Beats By The Pound, The Neptunes, PA, The Medicine Men, Outkast. "Shake Ya Ass" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Solo Rap Performance. With a solid resume in hip-hop, New Orleans native Mystikal was one of the first rappers to really put it down for the dirty South. On his fourth album Let's Get Ready, the former No Limit artist introduces his rough vocals to some danceable beats. For "Shake Ya Ass," he enlists the production talents of the Neptunes, and delivers a guaranteed club hit. Guests are kept to a minimum; he teams up with Da Brat on the bouncy "Come See About Me" and Outkast on the experimental "Neck Uv Da Woods." Other songs, such as "Ain't Gonna See Tomorrow" and "Family" show a more serious side of Mystikal, and allow him to display lyrical growth.

Rolling Stone (9/28/00, p.56) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...There are peaks of triple-time rhythm and valleys of bass, with Mystikal bouncing in between like a pimped-out yodeler in need of Ritalin..." Spin (11/00, p.203) - 8 out of 10 - "...An easy-action super-saturated tour of the Dirty South....[He's] at his best changing gears, lowdown growl to syncopated spitfiring and back again in the space of a line..." Entertainment Weekly (11/10/00, p.90) - "...A spare, eclectic effort...alternately funky and hyper, delicate and brash..." - Rating: A- The Source (12/00, pp.250-2) - 3.5 mics out of 5 - "...Confirms [his] tremendous progress as a better writer and showman....Half the fun is just listening to the rapper's vocals, a toxic mix of a Baptist preacher and a baddass hyper kid..." NME (Magazine) (11/25/00, p.35) - 9 stars out of 10 - "...One sharp-steppin' razor....Mystikal is the fightingest bastard and his grin's never wider than when he's putting the hurt on..."

One of the most successful soldiers in Master P's No Limit Army and the first Dirty South MC to garner genuine mainstream attention, Mystikal scored big with 1997's UNPREDICTABLE and '98s GHETTO FABULOUS. The rapper jumped ship from No Limit in 2000, moving to Jive Records where he topped the Billboard album charts with LET'S GET READY, thanks in part to the infectious, James Brown-inspired single "Shake Ya Ass." Despite the release of another promising album in 2001, various troubles with the law led to a career-crippling stint in prison.

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