Extended play of a group that is made up of MC Lyte, Jared Lee and Whitey White. This trio offers some of hip hop mixed with sweet soul, keeping love as the main theme.
"Love" opens, KRS announces itself on the track, a simple and minimal jazzy rhythm combined with a few of soul in the background, provided by the production duo J-Lee & Whitey, KRS delivers an honest verse — and knocks it out easy, in essence he says "love or not, I still kick everyone's ass" — there's the singer Sleepy Brown who offers some soul, then closes MC Lyte with a good effective flowing verse.
"Beautiful" follows, a splendid light jazzy boom bap with hard and skeletal drum machine, part MC Lyte with a dope flow and smooth delivery, male soul hook by J-Lee. "Stay" has a syncopated, simple jazzy rhythm, soulful hook and good slow and smooth delivery. "Infatuation" has a splendid boom bap soulful jazzy, opened by a soul hook, then good verse sung by Mika Lett, towards Lyte's rapper, there's also a short rap section by J-Lee.
"Revolution" is the closest cut to a filler here (some political bars), on a simple boom bap seasoned by an elegant piano here, good smoothness and hardcore verse by MC Lyte, soulful hook, closes a rap verse by J-Lee. Closes "Fly Away", another simple, syncopated, jazzy rhythm with soulful hook and MC Lyte rap delivery. There's a bonus track present in the edition released in Germany, "The Best Day": accentuated boom bap, simple, minimal, first verse sung, hook sung, MC Lyte closes the track.
Overall, it's an honest and pretty interesting record, which I recommend to fans of hip hop with soul shades. Don't sleep!
Rating: 7/10.
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