Veteran Ill Bill (Non Phixion / La Coka Nostra) and emerging Nems make up Brooklyn's Gorilla Twins duo. It's a tough duo. Check out the cover: it's a destructive and violent duo.
Hardcore, two hardcore rappers, is supposed to be a hardcore album, however the hype is killed early in "Guerilla Twins", where the two pull random lines on a dark boom bap provided by the beatmaker Furio. Five different producers arrive on the next five tracks, the beats are all similar, jazzy hardcore boom bap with gloomy and dark samples, but the rappers never deliver with the aggressive style you'd expect from these two.
Josh the Goon creates a good rhythm for "Wolves", with good samples, but the track at the end isn't the banger it should be, despite the additional presence of Vinnie Paz. After the last almost-banger ("Bong!"), there's a good melodic female soul sample in "Supply & Demand", then a skit and the disc drops in the second part, with simple jazzy and hardcore rhythms, a drum slow, decent samples. Nems & Ill Bill don't kill any tracks, closes a final posse with Immortal Technique and DV Alias Khrist.
Produced by Ill Bill's Uncle Howie Records and Fat Beats, it's a 35-minute album, about ten joints, honest, but disappointing: the duo's style and lyrics are acceptable, the production is a bit generic and pretty weak to be hardcore.
Rating: 6/10.
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