Walking With a Panther [Explicit Lyrics]

1. Droppin' Em

2. Smokin' Dopin'

3. Fast Peg

4. Clap Your Hands

5. Nitro

6. You're in My Heart

7. I'm That Type of Guy

8. Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?

9. Going Back to Cali

10. It Gets No Rougher

11. Big Ole Butt

12. One Shot at Love

13. 1-900 L.L. Cool J

14. Two Different Worlds

15. Jealous

16. Jingling Baby

17. Def Jam in the Motherland

18. Change Your Ways

Walking With a Panther,LL Cool J,Def Jam,East Coast Rap,Golden Age,Hip-Hop,Pop,Pop-Rap,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop

Average customer rating:

Solid Third Album from the 'Future of the Funk'

An above average displaced album from LL..............

LL's best album {4/5 stars}

The Worst LL Cool J in History

WALKING WITH A PANTHER?

Walking With a Panther
LL Cool J
Manufacturer: Def Jam
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

East Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
Old School | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
$7.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music
Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music
All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music
$7.99 and Under | Prices | Blowout Music | Stores | Music
More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Bigger and Deffer

Mama Said Knock You Out

Radio

14 Shots to the Dome

G.O.A.T. Featuring James T. Smith: The Greatest of All Time

ASIN: B0000024JV
Release Date: 1995-03-28

Tracks:

Droppin Em
Smokin' Dopin'
Fast Peg
Clap Your Hands
Nitro
You're My Heart
I'm That Type Of Guy
Why Do You Think They Call It Dope?
Going Back To Cali
It Gets No Rougher
Big Ole Butt
One Shot At Love
1-900-L.L. Cool J
Two Different Worlds
Jealous
Jingling Baby
Def Jam In The Motherland
Change Your Ways

Customer Reviews:

Solid Third Album from the 'Future of the Funk'.......2007-06-05

Walking with a Panther
Released in the spring of 1989, Walking with a Panther" is one-time "Prince of Rap" LL Cool J's third album. For this outing LL serves as the main producer (with Bigger and Deffer collaborators Dwayne Simon & Darryl Pierce). The LP's opening song, "Droppin' Em" is a solid return to form, as are "Smokin' Dopin'" and "Clap Your Hands". "One Shot at Love" and "Two Different Worlds" push the rap-ballad envelope a little too further than it needed to be, but the synthesizer-propelled "Am I Still Your Heart?" is on point. "Fast Peg" is a cautionary tale about a mob moll who takes her lifestyle for granted: "...Her man messed up the money, ridin' around thinking everything's funny; went to a disco, came outside; somebody pushed her in a beat-up ride; she had to pay for her man's mistakes..."

On the first single "I'm That Type of Guy", LL depicts himself as a sneaky playboy who can't wait to romance another guy's woman; the follow-up hit, "Big Ole Butt", continues the theme, as LL recounts his fetish for prominent rear ends. The Bomb Squad-produced "It Don't Get No Rougher" and "Nitro" find LL spitting battle-rhymes with fierceness. "Change Your Ways" features live drums & guitar; and the original "Jingling Baby" lifts the theme to blaxploitation movie "Black Belt Jones". Also tacked on to the disc is LL's 1987 pop smash "Going Back to Cali", originally featured on the Less than Zero movie soundtrack.

Admittedly, LL was in full party mode with this album. But surprisingly, at the time of its release, LL took a beating from urban fans who felt he had gone pop. Afrocentric, political hip-hop and gangster rap had recently become all the rage, and by comparison LL's quasi-hedonism of good times was deemed socially irresponsible. But for fair-minded listeners, there's more funk for your trunk than you might think.

Note: At the time of its release, "Panther" was one of the first double-LPs for rap. Tracking at over 75 minutes, there were a few songs left off the CD that should hopefully show up on a double-disc re-release. They would be "Jack the Ripper", which was LL's response to then-rival Kool Moe Dee's harangues, and "Crime Stories".

An above average displaced album from LL.....................2007-04-26

LL did not slack lyrically on Walking with A Panther. The major and really only legitimate beef that most fans and critics can say about LL's third album is that it was out of place when compared to landmark releases of 88 and 89 by PE, EPMD, BDP, X Clan, NWA, De La Soul and others. In short, LL was celebrating his success while there was a major cultural awareness in hiphop. This caused LL to get slammed by critics and was a major influence for LL's next classic release "Mama Said Knock You Out."

Top Joints:
Big Ole Butt
Nitro
I'm that type of guy
Why do you think they call it dope?
Goin Back To Cali
Jingling Baby
It Gets no Rougher

LL's best album {4/5 stars}.......2006-09-08

Standout tracks: DROPPIN EM, SMOKIN DOPIN, FAST PEG, CLAP YOUR HANDS, NITRO, IM THAT TYPE OF GUY, WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT DOPE, IT GETS NO ROUGHER, 1-900- LL COOL J, JINGLING BABY(go head baby), DEF JAM IN THE MOTHERLAND and BIG OLE BUTT. Filler: You're my heart, Going back to Cali(never felt it), One shot at love, Two different worlds(too many wack girlie records), Change your ways(a song with a message that falls short). Bottom Line: Minus all the superbooty girlie records this album stands out as LL best album. He stepped up his rap game tremendously and busted the dopest rhymes of his rap career on tracks like Droppin Em, Nitro, Clap your hands, Jingling Baby etc. Unfortunately the horrific chick songs bring this album down a bit but for every record like Two different worlds he gives a records like Why do you think they call it dope, It gets no rougher, Smokin dopin etc so Im cool with that. If you can skip past the terrible chick songs you can add this one to your collection.

The Worst LL Cool J in History.......2005-09-21

Walking with a panther 1/2 Star

This is the worst LL Cool J album I've ever seen, I Hated it, Although I Didn't like 14 Shots to the dome, Phenomenon and The DEFintion, but those look like masterpieces compared to this junk, LL's performance is really terrible, the songs are terrible, everything about this album is really bad, Sadly LL Got backlashed and booed pretty harshly in showtime in the apollo in 1989 and what's worse NWA & Public Enemy brought a major change to rap.

Thankfully he made a comeback after this and he blew people away this time with Mama said knock you out.

This is a dreadful album, absolutely dreadful.

WALKING WITH A PANTHER?.......2005-09-19

LL has always been one of my favorite rappers. In a way, he was the Richard Roundtree (John Shaft) of his day. A cool dude who defined the masculine black man down to the Tee. Through claiming his microphone superiority, Having all the women, and firing back at any MC who dare oppose or questions his skills, He was (and still is) a Bad muthaf*cka in his own right.

Walking with A Panther has his best as well as his most dreadful tracks he ever recorded. If this overlong 20 track album was trimmed down to a 12 track opus, It would rival Mama Said Knock you Out as being his best album. But as it stands, classic gems like "Droppin Em" and "Im that Type of Guy" are seqeunced with forgettable tracks like the rap ballads One shot at love, You're my Heart, and Two Different Worlds. While Big Old Butt is one of his classic skirt chasing (A** chasing rather) tracks, 1-900 Cool J tries to duplicate that potency to no avail. This CD should be remastered with and trimmed down by dropping the filler

Desired track selection:

1. Droppin Em
2. Smokin Dopin
3. Fast Peg
4. Clap Your Hands
5. Nitro
6. I'm That type of Guy
7. Why do you think They call it Dope?
8. Going Back To Cali
9. It gets No Rougher
10.Big ole Butt
11.Jealous
12.Jack the Ripper

This would of made a 4.5 star album instead of a barely above average album.