Kurtis Blow also has the merit of having released the first EP in hip hop, after the first solo album. Call it EP: it's over 25 minutes and the other rap albums of the time didn't last much longer. This record holds on the shoulders of the title track — leaded by a good rhythmic and skeletal funky beat, decent, supported by a bare clapping, with a discreet delivery of Kurtis Blow — and "Daydreamin'", R&B cut on a light, skeletal, essential jazzy rhythm, on which the rapper delivers singing. The latter is an attempt to an ethereal song, not completely successful but not to be thrown away. Are inferior to it both "Juice" — good skeletal jazzy rhythm, tight and essential, with bare bongos and a decent delivery of Blow, not inspired here — both "Boogie Blues" — simple, rhythmic, skeletal funky beat, delivery in demi-rapping by Blow, also here not inspired, not enough to seriously deliver in rapping. The last choice leaves you dumbfounded, with a lyrics of little value, Blow chooses a more rocking rhythm. Musically, it's an inconsistent work, lyrically, it doesn't add anything new. Not essential.
Rating: 6.5/10.
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