The mastermind behind the Wu-indie-cult album "Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture" (2005), produces a sequel fifteen years later (you have to pretend that trashy senseless dubstep unofficial follow-up doesn't exist): Dreddy Kruger this time renounces the Wu mythology both in the title and in the cover, where the logo isn't proposed unlike the previous edition.
The production is made almost exclusively by the Royal Fam member, along with some beats provided by True Master, 9th Wonder, Sebb, Stoneface and MalcolmSef. The guests are Inspectah Deck of Wu-Tang Clan, Killah Priest & Prodigal Sunn of Sunz of Man, Timbo King & William Cooper of Black Market Militia, Trife of Theodore Unit, rappers from outside the Wu-universe as XP the Marxman, Eto, Akhenaton, Rasheed Chappell, Intelligenz, Vast Aire, Byata and Rome Streetz, and lesser-known artists such as Malcolmsef, Loft Blue, The Eloheem Team, Don O, Stoneface, California Purp and Aicha. Directors Quentin Tarantino and Jim Jarmusch are present with an interlude each: Jarmusch was also part of the prequel, along with Vast Aire, Byata, Timbo King and Prodigal Sunn.
Overall, it's a good album consisting of 17 cuts, 7 skits and about 34 minutes: between emerging underground artists, Wu affiliates and the only member of the Wu-Tang Clan present, no one disappoints. The musical carpets provided by Dreddy Kruger are pretty honest, boom bap rhythms with good drums and great samples. Among the best joints stand out "Triumphant", "Think Slow", "Old Style", "Cookie Prime" and "Slow Blues Two", which is a sequel to the track in the first volume with the same performers. In the end, Rome Streetz closes the album with a good delivery on one of the best productions, a few electronic piano keys, distant light drum and melodic sample in the background.
Rating: 7/10.
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