Third studio album by Grandmaster Flash. The production is realized by him alongwith Vincent Castellano, with the live instrumentation of Rahiem, Guy Vaughn, Chuck Kentis and Flash himself. The other performers are Rahiem & Kidd Creole of The Furious Five, Larry Love, La Von, Broadway, and Shame. I don't know if the introductory piece sounds less worse than the other songs for its own merits or because it's the first, but the rest of the record is watered-down by a trivial rapping and by rhythms that wink at pop and dance: overall, this record is better than the previous one, but always done badly. The production is reduced to generic funky or skeletal rhythms stolen without too much elegance from Run-DMC, above which Flash weakly delivers, with functional hooks often rnb. The songs on the B side have almost all skeletal and minimal Run-DMC beats, but they're always ruined by a ridiculous and trivial hook. Unreal.
Rating: 4.5/10.
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