In late 2009, Philadelphia rapper Freeway releases this promotional mixtape for his collaborative album with Jake One. The tape is entirely produced by Jake One, with some beats left to Phoe Notes and Sap Beats, and is mixed by Don Cannon. Jakk Frost and Beanie Sigel are the only guests. The project is released by Rhymesayers and the rapper's fledgling label, Free Money Records.
The first part of the tape flows quite well and in a pleasant way thanks to good choices and a solid, simple, essential and effective jazz production, with different soul veins supporting the performer's thug hardcore rap. Then from mid-tape onwards there is a noticeable drop in quality, both because Freeway's topics become more and more limited every minute that advances, and because the production, although managing to keep a jazz influence, it begins a heavy decline, now relying on simplistic, hasty, annoying and cheap rhythms. While in the first songs the artist seems in full control, in the second he proves to be unstoppable and destroys everything he encounters, sometimes not very inspired ("Let's Talk"), too fast for the beat ("Y'all Don't Want It", "Weather Man") or falling into the background ("Old to the New") also due to some of the worst beats in his catalog ("Paper Chase," with simplistic, heavy, annoying, cheesy production, awful hook, and worse bridge; "Back Ya Boys Down," "All by Myself").
Sufficient, average mixtape, far from the standards imposed over the years by Freeway and also far from the quality production of Jake One, 6/10.
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