Ghetto Pop Life

Ghetto Pop Life is a collaborative studio album by Danger Mouse & Jemini. It was released on Lex Records in 2003. It features guest appearances from Tha Liks, J-Zone, Prince Po, and The Pharcyde. In 2004, a reprint of the album with three additional tracks was released in the United States.

Ghetto Pop Life
Studio album by
Danger Mouse & Jemini
ReleasedSeptember 9, 2003 (2003-09-09)
GenreHip hop
Length57:24
LabelLex
ProducerDanger Mouse
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
BBC - Collective8/10[2]
Dusted Magazinefavorable[3]
IGN8.5/10[4]
musicOMH[5]
Muzik[6]
Pitchfork7.8/10[7]
Prefix[8]
Stylus MagazineA[9]
XLR8Rfavorable[10]

Lex Records also released three EPs with tracks (and remixes of tracks) from the album: Take Care of Business, Conceited Bastard, and 26 Inch EP. Moreover, there was a special promotional CD, titled Ghetto Pop Mix, a mixtape with short remixes of the tracks from the album fading into each other, along with a couple of new exclusive tracks.

Critical reception

Mark Pytlik of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Evocative without being pointlessly nostalgic and fun without being goofy, Ghetto Pop Life is a convincingly strong debut."[1] Dom Passantino of Stylus Magazine gave the album a grade of "A", calling it "not only one of the best albums of the year, but also possibly the strangest."[9]

Pitchfork placed it at number 37 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2003" list.[11] The Guardian named it the 19th best album of 2003.[12] In 2011, inthemix named it the 48th best dance album of the 2000s.[13] In 2017, ThoughtCo included it on the "100 Best Hip-Hop Albums of the 2000s" list.[14]

Track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Born-A-MC"2:29
2."Ghetto Pop Life Intro"1:09
3."Ghetto Pop Life"4:23
4."Omega Supreme"5:03
5."What U Sittin' On?" (featuring Tha Liks)3:58
6."The Only One"3:17
7."Take Care of Business" (featuring J-Zone)3:38
8."That Brooklyn Shit"3:35
9."Yoo-Hoo!"4:35
10."Copy Cats" (featuring Prince Po)3:49
11."Don't Do Drugs"3:23
12."Medieval" (featuring The Pharcyde)4:59
13."Bush Boys"4:01
14."Here We Go Again"3:51
15."I'ma Doomee (Love Letter)"3:04
16."Knuckle Sandwich"2:07
Total length:57:24
2004 US reissue edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
17."What U Sittin' On? (DM's 26 Remix)" (featuring Cee-Lo and Tha Liks)3:30
18."The Shit"3:18
19."Ghetto Pop Life II"3:54
Total length:68:09

Ghetto Pop Mix
Ghetto Pop Mix
Mixtape by
Danger Mouse & Jemini
ReleasedSeptember 25, 2003 (2003-09-25)
GenreHip hop
Length36:23
LabelLex
ProducerDanger Mouse

There were two editions of this promotional mixtape CD: The original one, with eleven tracks, which was only available with the August 2003 issue of Hip-Hop Connection; and an extended version with a total of sixteen tracks.

No.TitleLength
1."Intro"2:15
2."Ghetto Pop Life"1:40
3."Don't Do Drugs"1:12
4."The Only One"1:13
5."(exclusive track)"2:44
6."That Brooklyn Shit"2:10
7."What U Sittin' On?"2:00
8."Omega Supreme"3:38
9."Bush Boys"1:35
10."(exclusive track)"1:01
11."Copy Cats"2:24
12."(exclusive track)"1:57
13."Brooklyn Kids"2:56
14."Who Wanna Step II Dis"4:21
15."Tom's Diner (DM Mix)"1:59
16."It Ain't Hard to Tell (DM Mix)"3:13
Total length:36:23

References
  1. Pytlik, Mark. "Ghetto Pop Life - DM & Jemini". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  2. Rutledge, James (July 11, 2003). "BBC review". Collective. BBC. Archived from the original on July 3, 2004. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  3. Strock, Owen (November 7, 2003). "Dusted Reviews: DM + Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". Dusted Magazine. Archived from the original on October 26, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  4. Fry, Will (September 28, 2005). "Danger Mouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". IGN. News Corporation. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  5. Hubbard, Michael (July 14, 2003). "DM & Jemini – Ghetto Pop Life". musicOMH. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  6. Ashon, Will (August 2003). "DM & Jemini: Ghetto Pop Life (Lex)" (PDF). Muzik. No. 99. p. 71. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
  7. Plagenhoef, Scott (September 16, 2003). "Danger Mouse / Jemini: Ghetto Pop Life". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  8. Burrell, Jalylah (September 9, 2003). "Danger Mouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". Prefix. Prefix Media. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  9. Passantino, Dom (September 1, 2003). "DM and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  10. Ware, Tony (August 15, 2003). "Ghetto Pop Life". XLR8R. Archived from the original on November 28, 2014. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
  11. "Top 50 Albums of 2003 (page 2)". Pitchfork. December 31, 2003. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  12. "Albums of 2003". The Guardian. December 14, 2003. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  13. "The Best Dance Albums of the 2000s". inthemix. Junkee Media. January 19, 2011. Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
  14. "The 100 Best Hip-Hop Albums of the 2000s". ThoughtCo. Dotdash. June 18, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
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