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This is my first review, and on Slaughterhouse’s Welcome to Our House. First of all, I’d be lying if I said this was unbiased, because I am a big Slaughterhouse fan. Like Royce said, the album is what people said the group couldn’t do: sell records. I’m probaly in the minority, but I actually liked the album more than the mixtape. I liked the mixtape too, but there was obviously a lot more work put into this album.

So I’ll format it like this:
Title
Rating (out of 5)
Description

1. The Slaughter (Intro)
   No description needed

2. Our House (feat. Eminem & Skylar Grey)
   4.5/5
   This track starts the album off really well, with verses talking about the artists' past. I can live with Skylar Grey on the hook, because everyone and especially Em delivered.

3. Coffin (feat. Busta Rhymes)
   3.75/5
   I was really expecting this to be a killer track, so I was disapointed with this one. I thought Budden had a great opening verse, but from there it went downhill. Decent hook by Busta, I wanted him to have a verse though.

4.Throw That (feat. Eminem)
3.75/5
The last single had a club banger feel to it. Hook was pretty catchy, but I wasn’t really feeling the beat too much.

1. Hammer Dance
   4/5
   Good track, when rating this album I tried to pretend I hadn’t heard this track many times before. Solid verses all around, good hook by Royce.

2. Get Up
   4.25/5
   This track shows how Slaughterhouse is determined to succeed in everything they do, even if its making a mainstream-ish album. All Time Low on the hook, but I focused more on what the verses were saying. I loved Crooked’s line: “This is how we attackin' it, four rappers that are passionate, took the idea of a group and re-imagined it”

3. My Life (feat. Cee Lo Green)
   3/5
   Absolutely hate this beat, and hate the hook with Cee Lo. Again I focused the verses, with Slaughterhouse talking about how far they’ve come.

4. We Did It (Skit)
   …

5. Flip a Bird
   4.5/5
   Awesome song, awesome beat. Everyone just flowed so well and catchy hook.
   flip a bird, flip a bird, flip a bird, in the kitchen

6. Throw it Away (feat. Swizz Beatz)
   2/5
   I tried to like this track, but I despise Swizz Beatz. He ruined an already bad song with a horrible hook. I hate the whole concept of this song, about all their money and possesions. Needless to say, this track should’ve been “Thrown Away”

7. Rescue Me (feat. Skylar Grey)
   3.25/5
   Apparently one hook from Grey wasn’t enough. I wasn’t feeling this one, but it was decent. I don’t know if its just me, but Crooked’s verse sounded very similar to his one on “Monsters In My Head”.

8. Frat House
   4.5/5
   Here’s the Slaughterhouse sound we’ve been waiting for. Beast hook, a good description of what goes on at frat parties. Loved how Joe and Joell went back and forth in last verse, like “The One”.

9. Goodbye
   4.5/5
   Deep song, discussing each rapper’s hardships they had to deal with. I would have loved to hear Royce on this, maybe talking about Proof’s death, but I remembered he already went in depth about that in “Security”.

10. Park It Sideways
    4.25/5
    Very catchy hook

11. Die
    4/5
    Solid track, verses go hard. I don’t know who’s on the hook, but it’s pretty good along with the fast beat.

12. Our Way (Outro)
    4/5
    Last track on regular version. Track targeted to those who said they couldn’t sell records. I enjoyed all the verses and especially this line from Joell Ortiz:
    “Im a Crook that’ll JumpOff with 5 9s or a good jab” refrencing all 4 members.

I don’t feel like doing all the bonus tracks, but Asylum (feat. Eminem) was a hardcore song with a sick beat. Nasty hook by Em, great verses by everyone except maybe Royce, I kinda thought his was a little weak.
And I thought the B.o.B song was unneccesary.

Tallied it up and I gave it a 54.25/70
Sorry if the numbering got screwed up, I don’t know why it did that. Comment on what you thought of my review, what you disagree about or whatever.

Overall i think it was pretty good album, those numbers are about right, and the only missing from this album i believe, is a double-time song, or a song like Onslaught 2

Agree on the overall rating, though I loved “Rescue Me”. But, that may be because I get a boner from hearing Skylar Grey’s voice. Nice review.

What were you on, and where can I get me some? Cause this album was trash b. Like damn son, you actually think ‘My Life’ was above average? Son.

This whole joint was uninspired and had way to much of a blatant mainstream push. No one on this tape besides Busta on his hook had any energy nahsayin? Shit was whack.

in conclusion:

If I felt Slaughterhouse really dumbed down their verses on that track I would agree with you, I know it’s a mainstream attempt but you gotta listen to what they’re actually talking about.

Coffin was dope bruh.. One of the only non-sucky hooks on here..
Seriously though.. the hooks sucked

Agree pretty much.. good review!

I agree with Silky Johnson. When they signed to Shady they got all watered down.

I’m a big fan of Slaughterhouse, and I was dissapointed with this album. There were some nice moments, but it ain’t that great. Their debut album was so much better.

I would’ve been disappointed with Slaughterhouse if they didn’t have the mixtape. When they released On the House so near to the album, I kinda figured the album would be different than their previous material. It was almost like saying they knew a lot of core fans wouldn’t like the album so the mixtape served as something those fans could enjoy. You can’t blame them for trying to expand their fan base.