{"id":88941,"date":"2025-10-21T14:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/88941\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:17:16","slug":"tim-dog-immortal-rapreviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/88941\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Dog :: Immortal \u2013 RapReviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMost of Tim Dog\u2019s later releases suffered from poor promotion and distribution, with albums like 2002\u2019s Immortal and 2006\u2019s BX Warrior being commercially unsuccessful.\u201d \u2013 Discogs<\/a><\/p>\n

They\u2019re not kidding. I have never seen a copy of Tim Dog\u2019s \u201cImmortal<\/a>\u201d for sale. If I owned one I\u2019d scan the cover art and upload it myself, because I couldn\u2019t find a single high resolution version online (apologies for the one accompanying this review). No music service has made it available. Spotify<\/a> seems to have everything he\u2019s ever done except for this album. I thought Discogs would come through with some details about it since they mentioned \u201cImmortal<\/a>\u201d in his bio, but they don\u2019t have an entry for it EITHER. That\u2019s some self-fulfilling shit Discogs, congratulations. Please don\u2019t mention albums if you\u2019re not going to put them in the database.<\/p>\n

We are one upload of this release to YouTube away from this album becoming lost media<\/a>. A few scant tracks from the album like \u201cThe Professional\u201d also exist, and that might be the closest thing to a rap single to be released from this album. It\u2019s got all the requisite qualities you\u2019d want from one \u2014 a beat that thumps, an unnamed deejay scratching the hook, and Tim\u2019s trademark testosterone unchanged after a decade in rap. \u201cAny rapper with \u2018Dog\u2019 in his name is on my dick.\u201d You couldn\u2019t ask for more. Actually\u2026 you could. The song is only two minutes and change long, but it\u2019s an enjoyable two minutes.<\/p>\n

Who produced the tracks? Allegedly Ced Gee and TR Love, but without being able to physically inspect the liner notes, I have to take the word of a Genius<\/a> (no not GZA) for it. No one has submitted a single lyric from the album to them. You might think their entry for the \u201cIntro\u201d is from \u201cImmortal<\/a>\u201d but it\u2019s not \u2014 it\u2019s mistakenly linked to his debut \u201cPenicillin On Wax.<\/a>\u201d I\u2019m willing to accept that it was released in 2003, but nobody seems to know what record label put it out. Forget Amazon \u2014 they don\u2019t have it for sale or to listen to. Last resort? Let\u2019s look for this one on eBay\u2026 that\u2019s a no. I\u2019m not even going to bother hyperlinking the results because it\u2019s a bunch of comic books. For all anyone knows Timothy Blair printed these albums by hand one at a time and sold them on a street corner in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

The funniest part of this thing to me is that I\u2019ve been wanting to review this album for over a decade but a full copy didn\u2019t exist on the internet until October 15th, 2025<\/a>. I suggest if you care about Mr. Blair\u2019s legacy in rap you find a way to rip a copy before it vanishes again \u2014 unless his estate provides a legal way to buy it in which case you should definitely do it the right way. That leads us to one important question I\u2019ve been dodging this whole time. Does anybody care? The channel that uploaded it is humorously called W.A.C.K. FM<\/a> and only has six subscribers. Well, seven now. I\u2019ll show them some love just for providing this public service. They even put time stamps in the description so you can skip right to individual songs, and they listed the guest stars who rap with the Dog throughout.<\/p>\n

\u201cHustluz,\u201d \u201cMake It Last\u201d and \u201cSun Don\u2019t Shine\u201d feature Mo Bline<\/p>\n

\u201cAin\u2019t It Funny,\u201d \u201cHustluz,\u201d \u201cWe Can Grow,\u201d \u201cSun Don\u2019t Shine\u201d and \u201cImmortal\u201d feature Max Lux<\/p>\n

\u201cMakin Love\u201d and \u201cImmortal\u201d feature Tah<\/p>\n

\u201cGet Out Da Life\u201d features Rika<\/p>\n

\u201cWe Can Grow\u201d features Khal<\/p>\n

\u201cHustluz\u201d features Rhymestein<\/p>\n

The credit for \u201cHustluz\u201d is incomplete, but that\u2019s quickly obvious when you hear multiple rappers, so I found a quasi-legit \u201cGreatest Hits\u201d Tim Dog album that fleshed it out. I\u2019d say I mean it nicely when I call his guests a low rent version of The L.O.X. but I don\u2019t. The track sounds like a bad imitation of some Swizz Beatz shit. Tim\u2019s lyrical skills have always been secondary to his vocal presence, but it feels like he\u2019s barely trying here.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf my money ain\u2019t right, I\u2019ma cut ya
I don\u2019t give a fuck ya
who you roll with, who you did a show with
All you rappers in the game is on MY dick
You wanna fuck MY bitch, get in MY whip
Meet MY chick, all y\u2019all can suck MY dick for that!\u201d<\/p>\n

Folks, he\u2019s rhyming \u201cya\u201d with \u201cya\u201d and \u201cdick\u201d with \u201cdick.\u201d Poor distribution and scant information existing about \u201cImmortal<\/a>\u201d is exactly what he deserved here. The plethora of unrecognizable guest stars suggest something I never would have said before hearing this album \u2014 a lack of confidence from Timothy Blair. At his best he was a one man army fighting against the entire West Coast like some post-apocalyptic mutant Hulk. He barked, he growled, he roared, he waged war. This is a neutered Dog.<\/p>\n

There are a few highlights like \u201cCan I Live\u201d (the Jay-Z track of the same name is obviously better) and the throwback 1990\u2019s energy of \u201cBring It\u201d but they\u2019re sandwiched between banal songs like \u201cDog Shit\u201d and \u201cPop Life\u201d that aren\u2019t worth your time. The best thing I can say about \u201cImmortal<\/a>\u201d is that it makes \u201cBX Warrior<\/a>\u201d sound better by comparison. If you\u2019re completing his catalogue make this your last stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMost of Tim Dog\u2019s later releases suffered from poor promotion and distribution, with albums like 2002\u2019s Immortal and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-88941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}