Vibe.com, April 13th, 2005
Bay Area entrepreneur/producer/rapper JT the Bigga Figga struck gold long before the day The Game's Documentary garnered platinum sales. Owning all the master copies of Game's early lyrical showmanship, the sometimes-pretentious JT proves it by showing off his "millionaire laugh" on the opening intro track to West Coast Resurrection, his second independent release on behalf of The Game. His first release was 2004's Untold Story.
While tracks like the soulful "Promised Land" fit snuggly into Game's West Coast Resurrection, rapping at Documentary-caliber level on the subject of his anger towards his estranged father, other tracks - "Krush Groove," "Desperados," and "Work Hard" - decide to promote JT's Get Low crew and leave the G-Unit exile out of play altogether.
Elsewhere, Game critics might be quick to note that his name-dropping tendencies extend back further than his 2005 debut. As the only other solo Game track, "Troublesome," reveals Game's name-fetish. "When I think about who shot me, I listen to B.I.G., When I'm rhyming on the road, I listen to Jig/Bump Nas off that purple sittin' on the block, And when I'm loading up them clips I listen to 'Pac."
Much of the rest of Resurrection delegates Game to the hooks of tracks or an occasional verse though, and aside from the solid West Coast productions from JT, little else gets resurrected or reborn through Figga's substitute posse cuts.
On the album's outro, JT boasts of his discovery of The Game and declares that "we gonna ride that wave all the way out." But the patchy Game appearances and shallow mixtape quality of West Coast Resurrection say enough: This gold mine was more rewarding the first time it was discovered.
