It's hard to view
Mia X as anything other than No Limit's answer to
Foxy Brown and
Lil' Kim. That may be because she's marketed that way, but the fact is, her music sounds like the No Limit variation of
Foxy and
Kim -- it's cheap, street-level music that panders to "gangsta" sensibilities.
Mia X is a fairly talented rapper -- more talented than the average No Limit rapper -- but her gifts are obscured by the utterly flat production. Still, she and several of her collaborators, such as
C-Murder,
Fat Joe, and
Silkk the Shocker, are able to make a couple of the tracks work through sheer force, and those cuts ("Bring it On," "What's Ya Point," "Don't Blame Me," "Six Ed.," "Play wit Pussy") are reason enough for die-hard No Limit heads to check this out, even if it won't convince any doubters. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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