The L.A. Dream Team was a hip-hop group founded in 1985 and based in Los Angeles, California. It's composed by Chris Wilson and Rudy Pardee. It's one of the early hip-hop acts on the West Coast, often considered among the pioneers of the West Coast hip-hop. After founded their own Dream Team Records label, the group releases several singles and expanded with the inclusion of Lisa "Miss Rockberry" Love, Richard "The Real Richie Rich" Anthony and Big Burt, and in 1986 the group signs with MCA. The record is produced by L.A. Dream Team, Cortney Branch, Tracy Kendrick, The Real Richie Rich, Steve Dorff, The Waters, Tavi Mote, Louil Sillas Jr. and Dennis Parker.
Also knows as «The» Dream Team, this kids spit bad with a style that is deeply under the rap mediocre level, over electro beats that aren't exploited in any way in this efforty of the Kings of the West Coast in the City of Angels. It opens a blatantly live with skinny rhythm that mixes elements from at least four different genres, stealing from both funky and dance pop, followed by another aggressive and skeletal funky jazzy rhythm on which the duo weakly delivers, not even the R&B hook and the next bridge save this song. The third track is based on nursery sounds, the subsequent songs feature ballads with whispered delivery, poor rapping, hard, lean, bouncy and simplistic rhythms, plaintive r&b hooks and pop dance tunes, all pretty annoying.
Published by MCA, this record doesn't know who it is and where it wants to go. Capitalizing on the popularity of the electro genre in the mid-1980s, the group managed to enter the Billboard charts, today they are ignored by both retrospective critics and fans. Not recommended, 2/10.
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