0075678981869. New condition. CD. With his coarse voice and claim to be A-Town s Hannibal rapper Gorilla Zoe came on the scene as a fine alternative to Rick Ross. His breakthrough single the thug anthem Hood N**** made perfect sense but then a guest shot on Yung Joc s quirky hit Coffee Shop seems to have knocked something loose. At its best his sophomore release Don t Feed Da Animals is a bold Coffee Shop -inspired attempt to try something different within the realm of gangsta rap. At its worst it s redundant or more likely cringe-worthy. While Hood Clap and the handful of other attempts to re-create Hood N**** are easy enough to ignore it is tracks like S*** on Em that really hurt with their I doo-doo/I pooh pooh/I s*** on em choruses. Elsewhere They give me no answers/Following the wise/But they re walking in Pampers drags down Lost a heartfelt song about loneliness that would work splendidly if it wasn t for the diaper talk. Things heat up in the second half as Man I does the Mike Jones and Back Then thing in style. Then there are the three Drumma Boy productions two of which -- I Got It and Watch Me -- are the usual club crushers hook-filled and infectious as always. It s their third collaboration the ambitious Akon-sized closer Echo that really satisfies and makes the listener wish the previous set of admirable but flawed tracks had been given one more rewrite preferably with fewer references to doo-doo and pooh. [Don t Feed Da Animals was also made available in a clean version with all explicit material removed.] ~ David Jeffries Rovi