After the critical success of "Perestroika", OC tries again with another collaborative album. This time he have PF Cuttin behind the keyboards: PF provided minimal, tenses, dark, jazzy rhythms, sometimes funky, sometimes rocking, often NY, OC delivers pretty average, and this record — som' more than twenty-minutes, so a EP rather than an LP — runs smoothly, most of the songs are average good an don't stand out compared to the others, nevertheless, there are a couple of slips: "88" has a pretty failed production, poor/cheap beat, confused and weak, where OC delivers completely unfit; Credle's unfit also in "OPM", track based on a digitized, bouncy, poorly executed boom bap, with Real Shakar's hook that simply sucks in its unlistenable R&B. "Get In Line" is among the most accessible tracks: beautiful bap jazzy soulful, rare case where OC stands out. 7/10.
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