A review on 'Transition' from Star Magazine, they give it 5 stars!
"Who? Chip Diddy Chip is all grown up. Respect.
How’s it sound? Aww, bless lil’ Chipmunk. He slammed into the pop mainstream in 2009 with chirpy choons like Oopsy Daisy and Diamond Rings, and he seriously has one of the least street-tough names we’ve ever heard of outside Sesame Street. So we could be forgiven for a sigh and an eye roll when the opening title track of his second album talks about his “transition from a boy to a man”. But any fears of tedious Chris Brown-like posturing are dispelled throughout the album by a magnificent torrent of inventive, subversive and witty rhymes that punctuate the depth of Chip’s talent.
Swelling choirs and rattling drumbeats underpin Transition (which includes the rather dodge line: “I was born to be fly, I don’t like the ground”) before Eric B lays a lilting vocal over Follow My Lead. Hand claps and a gang-choir on backing vocals underpin the tougher Flying High, while tongue-in-cheek posturing shows how it’s done over hot beats on Foul and Keri Hilson smooches a sexy vocal on the poppy current single In The Air. The lethal combo with Trey Songz’s lush tones on Take Off will seduce girls everywhere, while Wretch 32 brings a much harder grime edge to Armageddon. It all comes to a stunning, dramatic climax on Pray For Me as a gospel choir and epic orchestrations swell over the main man’s spine-tingling delivery. It’s no coincidence that references to the air and flying abound throughout, because this boy is a man now – and he is ready to soar.
Verdict: This is his transition to superstar.
Skip to: Pray For Me.
★★★★★"
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