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Ghetto Pop Mix
Ghetto Pop Mix
Mixtape by Danger Mouse and Jemini
Released	September 25, 2003
Genre	Hip hop
Length	36:23
Label	Lex
Producer	Danger Mouse

Ghetto Pop Life
Ghetto Pop Life
Studio album by Danger Mouse and Jemini
Released	September 9, 2003
Genre	Hip hop
Length	57:24
Label	Lex
Producer	Danger Mouse

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
BBC - Collective	8/10^[2]
Dusted Magazine	favorable^[3]
IGN	8.5/10^[4]
musicOMH	^[5]
Muzik	^[6]
Pitchfork	7.8/10^[7]
Prefix	^[8]
Stylus Magazine	A^[9]
XLR8R	favorable^[10]

Ghetto Pop Life is a collaborative studio album by Danger Mouse and Jemini. It was released on Lex Records in 2003. It features guest appearances from tha Liks, J-Zone, Prince Po, and the Pharcyde. In 2004, a reprint of the album with three additional tracks was released in the United States.

Lex Records also released three EPs with tracks (and remixes of tracks) from the album: Take Care of Business, Conceited Bastard, and 26 Inch EP. Moreover, there was a special promotional CD, titled Ghetto Pop Mix, a mixtape with short remixes of the tracks from the album fading into each other, along with a couple of new exclusive tracks.

Critical reception

Mark Pytlik of AllMusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Evocative without being pointlessly nostalgic and fun without being goofy, Ghetto Pop Life is a convincingly strong debut."^[1] Dom Passantino of Stylus Magazine gave the album a grade of "A", calling it "not only one of the best albums of the year, but also possibly the strangest."^[9]

Pitchfork placed it at number 37 on the "Top 50 Albums of 2003" list.^[11] The Guardian named it the 19th best album of 2003.^[12] In 2011, inthemix named it the 48th best dance album of the 2000s.^[13] In 2017, ThoughtCo included it on the "100 Best Hip-Hop Albums of the 2000s" list.^[14]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Born-A-MC"	2:29
2.	"Ghetto Pop Life Intro"	1:09
3.	"Ghetto Pop Life"	4:23
4.	"Omega Supreme"	5:03
5.	"What U Sittin' On?" (featuring Tha Liks)	3:58
6.	"The Only One"	3:17
7.	"Take Care of Business" (featuring J-Zone)	3:38
8.	"That Brooklyn Shit"	3:35
9.	"Yoo-Hoo!"	4:35
10.	"Copy Cats" (featuring Prince Po)	3:49
11.	"Don't Do Drugs"	3:23
12.	"Medieval" (featuring The Pharcyde)	4:59
13.	"Bush Boys"	4:01
14.	"Here We Go Again"	3:51
15.	"I'ma Doomee (Love Letter)"	3:04
16.	"Knuckle Sandwich"	2:07
Total length:		57:24

2004 US reissue edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
17.	"What U Sittin' On? (DM's 26 Remix)" (featuring Cee-Lo and Tha Liks)	3:30
18.	"The Shit"	3:18
19.	"Ghetto Pop Life II"	3:54
Total length:		68:09

Ghetto Pop Mix

There were two editions of this promotional mixtape CD: The original one, with eleven tracks, which was only available with the August 2003 issue of Hip-Hop Connection; and an extended version with a total of sixteen tracks.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Intro"	2:15
2.	"Ghetto Pop Life"	1:40
3.	"Don't Do Drugs"	1:12
4.	"The Only One"	1:13
5.	"(exclusive track)"	2:44
6.	"That Brooklyn Shit"	2:10
7.	"What U Sittin' On?"	2:00
8.	"Omega Supreme"	3:38
9.	"Bush Boys"	1:35
10.	"(exclusive track)"	1:01
11.	"Copy Cats"	2:24
12.	"(exclusive track)"	1:57
13.	"Brooklyn Kids"	2:56
14.	"Who Wanna Step II Dis"	4:21
15.	"Tom's Diner (DM Mix)"	1:59
16.	"It Ain't Hard to Tell (DM Mix)"	3:13
Total length:		36:23

References

^ ^a ^b Pytlik, Mark. "Ghetto Pop Life - DM & Jemini". AllMusic. All Media Guide. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Rutledge, James (July 11, 2003). "BBC review". Collective. BBC. Archived from the original on July 3, 2004. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Strock, Owen (November 7, 2003). "Dusted Reviews: DM + Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". Dusted Magazine. Archived from the original on October 26, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Fry, Will (September 28, 2005). "Danger Mouse & Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". IGN. News Corporation. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Hubbard, Michael (July 14, 2003). "DM & Jemini – Ghetto Pop Life". musicOMH. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Ashon, Will (August 2003). "DM & Jemini: Ghetto Pop Life (Lex)" (PDF). Muzik. No. 99. p. 71. Retrieved 11 August 2023.
^ Plagenhoef, Scott (September 16, 2003). "Danger Mouse / Jemini: Ghetto Pop Life". Pitchfork. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Burrell, Jalylah (September 9, 2003). "Danger Mouse and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". Prefix. Prefix Media. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Passantino, Dom (September 1, 2003). "DM and Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ Ware, Tony (August 15, 2003). "Ghetto Pop Life". XLR8R. Archived from the original on November 28, 2014. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ "Top 50 Albums of 2003 (page 2)". Pitchfork. December 31, 2003. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
^ "Albums of 2003". The Guardian. December 14, 2003. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
^ "The Best Dance Albums of the 2000s". inthemix. Junkee Media. January 19, 2011. Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018.
^ "The 100 Best Hip-Hop Albums of the 2000s". ThoughtCo. Dotdash. June 18, 2017. Retrieved February 16, 2018.