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Thanks to Cam’ron Giles and his Dip Set crew, Harlem gains a major foothold in the East Coast battle of the boroughs sparked by Jay-Z and Nas. Layering raw rhymes over street beats that frequently incorporate speeded-up and dragged-out R&B samples (courtesy of the Heatmakerz), Diplomatic Immunity extends the massive heat generated by Killa Cam’s platinum Come Home With Me. Some tracks on this double CD should have been relegated to the "filler" pile (the perfunctory "Hey Ma" remix, for example) but the songs that work spit fire. Diplomatic Immunity is laden with imagery of uptown drug-game drama (the Bone Thugs-inspired "The First") and downtown terrorist destruction ("I Love You")--painting post-9/11 New York in appropriately somber colors--but love of home and family is the top-level vibe. Harlem should be proud. --Rebecca Levine
beats ... beats .... beatsReviewed by CALI HIP HOPPER, 2009-12-12
this album was chalked full of hard beats...and awesome production....certain songs even had decent lyrics at times but the flow style from any of the dipset crew is pretty awful....really slow and often rhyming the same word over and over..it gets old fast....even though the beats were supercharged when they start to spit every song sounds the same....they need to try staggering their style a bit, everyone should have their own delivery....also there were a few hooks that were terrible...but the beats and production alone got the 3 stars for me.
We Built This CityReviewed by G. H. D. lll, 2009-11-21
Very good album from Cam'Ron, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana and the rest of the dipset family. Both CDs are good from start to finish. Top 5 songs I Really Mean It, Im Ready, Dipset Amthem, Built This City, and Purple Haze
Classic debut by a classic rap crewReviewed by Rube Goldfinger, 2009-03-13
2 disc albums are hard to make interesting. But with a crew this good, it wasn't hard. Cam'ron, Juelz and Jim Jones have great chemistry. Freeky Zekey is pretty annoying, but he's only on a few skits. Jim Jones really peaked on this album with sincere emotional lyrics. Juelz is the real hero of this album. Everything he's on is on target. This isn't Cam'ron's strongest appearence because I'm sure he was more focused on letting his crew shine, but he doesn't slouch either. Some hip hop fans skim over this group because its a lot of cocaine and gun talk, but its always clever, humorous or powerful music.
Thoughts on Diplomatic ImmunityReviewed by carlito, 2007-12-28
I still question why the critics were so harsh on this 2 disc
album. Make no mistake that the Diplomats won't change your life
with inspiring, rejuvenating raps. Cam'Ron, Juelz, and the Capo Jim
Jones are fully submerged in what makes hip-hop disgusting for
certain individuals; guns, sex, drugs, and everything that falls
inbetween. there's no remorse or repent anywhere on this
album.
But at the end of the day i don't think that was Diplomatic
Immunity's intention. This album is embracing the "bad" aspects of
rap...but it sounds hella good while doing so. The 3 rappers
(Zeekey doesn't rap but has really funny skits) flow plausibly and
are backed by some hard, soul-sampled beats from Kanye, Just Blaze,
and, the real stars of the show, the Heatmakerz. Its overall sound
is incredibly consistent and highly concentrated. The critics might
have burned it on the stake, but in my humble opinion, Diplomatic
Immunity is completely worthy of my 4 stars. go out and cop it.
Great CDReviewed by Micahel R. Ritchie, 2007-05-17
The first group album form dipset, and there best. this cd is fire and its full of classics from juelz santana and cam'ron. i recomend this cd to any santana fan or killa cam fan
