MC Chris - MC Chris Goes to Hell

Your ability to enjoy MC Chris Goes to Hell depends on two things besides whether you like MC Chris. The first is whether you already heard the "Part Six" EPs that led up to this album's release, and if you have, the second is whether you appreciate remixes as a way of releasing music. The album comes with 15 tracks, two of which are skits, four of which are new songs, and the rest of which are remixed versions of tracks from the EPs. Chris did a good job of selecting the best songs to keep, and as far as keeping things fresh I can't say I was really displeased with the job they did. A few of the tracks are hardly distinguishable from their original versions, which makes you wonder what the point was, but of the ones that are noticeably different, I felt evenly split on ones that were improved with the new production and ones that definitely weren't. I will never like what they did to "Awesome Fucker", but the new twist on "Neville" is fun and fits the content better. It goes back and forth like this for a lot of the album, and for the most part it's hard to be disappointed. Some songs even have new lyrical content to go with the new version, although most of it didn't thrill me. The two skits aren't amazing but still pretty solidly hilarious, with the first being yet another meeting between Chris and his manager and the second a (real?) preview for his next album, making it sound like an action movie featuring every movie trailer cliché ever. It's all not quite what I've come to expect from a full album by Chris, but it's still pretty fun to listen to.