It's pretty short for a mixtape, twelve tracks, including intro, outro and skit. There are therefore nine tracks, none of which are really good. Rick Diamonds sounds really uninspired in this tape, mostly made up of cheap and mediocre production provided by DJ Fresh, with alternative, bouncy, poor rhythms, where the guy often delivers undertone, he never sounds convinced, convincing or energetic.
In "Real Niggaz", DJ Fresh cuts badly the mediocre boom bap he picked, Rayqwon doesn't stand out on this stuff, and host Fashawn isn't much better than him. I think the worst point is "So Much Body", annoying insert for the club with whiny Latin rnb hook, exhausting track. At least half of the effort is made up of decent choices, there are Christmas bells and a deep electric guitar licks in "Ying Yang", before a switch in the music brings the song to an annoying and tense rhythm; the outro has a good mafia jazzy rhythm tainted by some inappropriate digitization and "Rae Words" boasts a light jazzy beat reminiscent of Jay-Z's "Dear Summer", with the rapper dropping a sort of freestyle that perhaps he deserved more space. Actually, here you don't expect Rae to do well: when he does, delivering some hardcore and smoothness bars over a proper soundscape, towards the end, in the songs with Mean Doe Green "Dobule Dragon" and "Bigger Gun", you don't even notice. I mean, I marked "Bigger Gun" as the best piece, but I didn't even write down why in my annotations. The tape was released for Siccness label, so I can't guarantee the legitimacy of the product. In any case, I do not recommend it, here Shallah has already arrived and has no energy. 4.5/10.
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