The Fat Boys' sophomore jinx comes as the trio releases CD number three rather than their second effort, as usual. Abandoned Kurtis Blow as unique beatmaker, the guys produce over half the album themselves (Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales alone, Darren "Buff Love" Robinson and Damon "Kool Rock-Ski" Wimbley together), also relying on Dave Ogrin, Fresh Gordon, Albert Cabrera and Tony Moran, as well as the live instrumentation of Doug Grama, Jeff Johnson and Gary Rottger.
There are no ideas, the guys have to keep their name alive as top mainstream artists in rap, but they don't know how and the result is contained in nine songs for a total of just under forty minutes where the kids do nothing. The album opens with a cover of James Brown and maybe there's another decent tune with the third choice "Breakdown", the rest is desert full of simple funky rhythms, commercial hooks, accessible rapping when it's good, but nothing really worth listening to, not even the title track.
Two singles were extracted, "Sex Machine" and "In the House", which did not create a sensation among the public, despite obtaining considerable airplay. The product has a chart result in the first few weeks, entering the Billboard 200 and finishing tenth among rnb releases, but the boys only make an appearance and this becomes their first album not to obtain certifications (and also the only one among their first five LPs). 4/10.
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