Kurtis Blow — America

Basing the rap album on a couple of strong singles and putting in forty minutes of fillers becomes a stale formula on this Kurtis Blow album. The veteran rapper insists on singing to create danceable rnb pieces, and he alternates disappointing rapping with bad singing. In the midst of this heavy, pale and muddy mediocrity, one of the rare tracks guessed by Kurtis in his career comes out, "If I Ruled the World": light, enveloping, essential, tight jazzy rhythm, with an excellent hook and a decent rapping of Blow; the song will then be improved by Nas with Lauryn Hill in the mid-nineties. 5/10.