Eighth studio album for Joell Ortiz, fifth solo. Production is handled by The Lasso, Heatmakerz, Apollo Brown, Nottz, JUSTICE League, Hesami and Big KRIT. Blakk Soul and Big KRIT are the only guests on the tape. On a more melodic production than usual, excluding his pearl-album with Apollo Brown, Ortiz evolves his pen game to the next level and manages to improve himself as a lyricist by dropping inspired and dynamic tracks. The results are particularly noticeable, especially in the first half of the tape, while in the second the quality falls after "Jamaican Food": overall, it's a nice project, even if his interpretation often approaches spoken word rather than pure rap, and the rapper insists on this hook-singing thing, which doesn't work. Published by Mello Music, it's one of his best documents. 7/10.
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