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Relive it, Relove it, Rewatch it . every One Tree Hill minute of it. Be a Drama Queen. Drama Queens, an iHeartRadio Podcast. Big Money Heavyweight. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs. Buy the album Starting at £13.99. The Big Tymers don't really have anything new to say on Big Money Heavyweight. They're still rapping about the Cash Money lifestyle -- one of luxury characterized by a boisterous gangsta stance and firm ghetto roots, and stacks of greenbacks. This is their stock-in-trade. It always has been, and probably always will be. What is new here, however, is Mannie Fresh's continual development as a producer, and the duo's continual development as songwriters. When they began, back in 1998, they were middling down-South gangsta rappers spitting game about money they probably didn't have. Here, five years later in 2003, they're budding songsmiths with enough industry influence to reign in big-money unit-movers like R. Kelly (who wrote and produced the radio-ready "Gangsta Girl") and Ludacris (who leads off "Down South," a standout shout-out to the South's finest). Then there's the leadoff track, "This Is How We Do," a singsongy upbeat single propelled by an acoustic guitar that aspires to duplicate the cha-ching commercial success of "Still Fly," the very similar singsongy upbeat single from the last Big Tymers album, Hood Rich. Granted, Baby and Mannie don't exactly have a wealth of original ideas, the songwriting grace of R. Kelly, or the lyrical wit of Ludacris, but they do have their finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, and give the people what they want, more or less -- even if that means rewriting their biggest hit to date, having the industry's pied piper write an R&B-crossover single for them, or bringing aboard the South's most popular rapper for a regional anthem. The paper-stacking commercial march of the original Big Money Heavyweights marches on, overall here, with a little more songwriting shine and a little less gutter splatter than last time, even if these Big Tymers don't really have anything new to say, just a smoother way to say it. © Jason Birchmeier /TiVo. Big Tymers Album Won't Arrive Until Mannie Fresh, Birdman Agree On 'Fact And Figures' Mannie Fresh tells MTV News that he and Birdman are in the early stages of negotiation for Big Tymers album. Mannie Fresh wants to get back to business as one of the members of the Big Tymers, but before he concocts a head-nodding beat or lays a verse, the business end of things has to be right. "Facts and figures," the New Orleans legend told MTV News during NBA All-Star weekend. "That's where we at right now. Facts and figures. We just trying to lay down a plan for it, a blueprint and we'll see what happens from there." Last year, Birdman told MTV News that he had opened up lines of communication with his former partner in rhyme to ensure he would be part of the upcoming group album with Lil Wayne and Drake. "I've been talking to Fresh a lot. We talk every other day, we been talking about doing music, so matter of fact we gonna get in," Birdman said at the time. "Me and Fresh ain't got no problem, we never had no problem. It's been a minute and we plan on working again." Fresh confirmed that he and Birdman were in fact discussing his involvement in the much-anticipated project. "We just talking, ya heard? That's all I could tell you," the Cash Money Records alum said. "No verses, no music, none of that. We just started on negotiating, that's where we at right now. Hopefully it's gon happen. I'ma give you a positive note, hopefully it's gon happen." Although the duo has yet to hit the studio together, the "Still Fly" MC's creative wheels are already turning in anticipation. "I always got ideas," Fresh said. "I'm from the '80s man. I got ideas, that's what we do. If I was working on Michael Jackson if he came back to life, I would be ready. I would be ready. The Resurrection Michael Jackson album I would be ready." As much as fans are chomping at the bit for a new Big Tymers LP, that's not the only project they're eagerly expecting from the iconic producer. "We working on it," Fresh said of his upcoming OMFGOD joint album with Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def). "Mos do movies for a living, so when he finish making movies, we'll finish it. He gotta feed his family just like I gotta feed mine. It's one of them things where I gotta work around his schedule. I can do this all day everyday but Hollywood is a 'lil different, so soon as dude slow up what he's doing, we'll finish it and get it to y'all. I know the world waiting for that, so I'ma make sure it happens." New Music: Big Tymers – ‘Desiigner Caskets’ The Big Tymers are “Still Fly.” The dynamic duo of Birdman and Mannie Fresh link up on “Desiigner Caskets,” a new single off the soundtrack to Before Anythang: The Story Behind the Cash Money Records Empire . Fresh’s signature sound, which helped catapult Cash Money to great heights, is all over the track. “This that real project shit that these ni**as wanna hear from me,” he raps over booming percussion. “I send them back in a designer casket, wrapped in plastic.” Baby also uses the thumping beat for his slick talk and sex boasts. “I fuck these hoes after our shows,” he brags. “Big dicks, we slang / Rich Gang, wartime, let us bang.” Later, he brags about Cash Money’s reported 73 billion streams. The Big Tymers dropped their first album, How You Luv That , back in 1997. A sequel followed in 1998, but it was 2000’s I Got That Work that first went platinum. They kept that platinum streak rolling with 2002’s Hood Rich . Their final album, 2003’s Big Money Heavyweight , went gold. Since then, the duo went on an indefinite hiatus. In 2013, Birdman even said he wanted to relaunch the group with Drake and Lil Wayne taking Mannie’s place. More recently, in 2006, Fresh compared the label to a family. “I still consider them family,” he explained. “Family—you have things you go through, disagreements. We still have issues.” Big Tymers. True to their name, the New Orleans rap duo Big Tymers sold millions of records during the Cash Money era. • The duo was formed by Cash Money Records cofounder Birdman (then known as Baby) and the label’s in-house producer Mannie Fresh in 1997. Their debut album, How You Luv That arrived that year. • Big Tymers received mainstream recognition with 2000’s I Got That Work and 2002’s Hood Rich , which peaked at No. 3 and No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart, respectively. • Their biggest hit, 2002’s “Still Fly,” reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. • In 2005, the duo dissolved after Mannie Fresh left Cash Money to sign with Def Jam. • They reunited in 2018 for the single “Designer Caskets,” off the Before Anythang: The Cash Money Story documentary soundtrack..
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