Self Made Legend: It's My Time to Shine by Hava' Rochie (Cassette, Jun-2000, Mouthpiece Records)

Album Features
UPC:	675597000148
Artist:	Hava' Rochie
Format:	Cassette
Release Year:	2000
Record Label:	Mouthpiece Records
Genre:	Gangsta/Hardcore, R&B

Track Listing
1. What's His Name
2. I'll Be Good to Ya
3. Night to Remember
4. Street Hustle
5. Let's Ride
6. We Hot
7. Untouchable
8. Millenium Ice
9. Special Kinda High
10. Stay Low
11. Da Hard Way
12. Shed Light
13. Self Made Legend
14. Party Flag
15. Itsie Bitsie Crawler
16. Gift of Gab

Details
Distributor:	Bayside Record Dist.
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Producers include: Proteje, Marc N Tha Dark, D-Black Lomax & Yogie, Mellow Mac, Chocolate Isco Say, Big Man, Hava' Rochie.There are two different Havocs in the hardcore rap world, and both of them have had partners named either Prodigy or Prodeje. The guy who raps on this CD is Gary "Havoc" Calvin, who is known for his work with Austin "Prodeje" Patterson in the South Central Cartel (so-named because its members are from South-Central Los Angeles). The other Havoc lives 3000 miles away in Queens, NY, where, in the 1990s, he co-led the infamous Mobb Deep with Prodigy (as opposed to Prodeje). When Calvin launched a solo career and recorded Self Made Legend: It's My Time to Shine in 2000, he didn't go by Havoc -- he went by Hava' Rochie (rhymes with Liberace) and opted for a slightly different approach. People who know Calvin for either his work with the South Central Cartel or his albums with Patterson as the duo Havoc & Prodeje think of him as a gangsta rapper, but Self Made Legend: It's My Time to Shine isn't quite as obsessed with thug life. Before this album, Calvin's favorite subject was thug life in the inner-city ghettoes of South-Central L.A. -- and while the Hava' Rochie character doesn't abandon that subject, he doesn't dwell on it as much. Hava' Rochie is more likely to rap about being a player/baller, kicking it with the hotties, and making money than going on a drive-by shooting. Hava' Rochie's beats are pure South-Central L.A., and the Dr. Dre/Snoop Doggy Dogg/Warren G influence is impossible to miss on tracks like "Untouchable" and "Stay Low." Self Made Legend falls short of remarkable and is slightly uneven, but, overall, it's a fun party album that shows us a slightly different side of the West Coast rapper. ~ Alex Henderson