On Lil' Mama's much delayed debut album VYP: Voice of the Young People, she sets out to prove she can be more than just a commercial vessel. Naturally, she has many things that work against her, such as tracks, 'Shawty Get Loose' with fellow phenom Chris Brown and produced by T-Pain, 'G-Slide (Tour Bus) ', and 'Make It Hot', all of which reapply what 'Lip Gloss' already enforced. But the standout is 'L.I.F.E.', a raw outtake on a dismantled childhood, on which she raps "I ain't got no pictures of my mother/She was a crack fiend/Nothing like crack mother", proves that there's much more to the teen star than the bubble gum music of her past. Let's just hope, she chooses to embrace more of that in the future.
2.5 out of 5.
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