According to many fans, he's the best member of the N.W.A even in the period with Ice Cube and certainly the most underrated. MC Ren emerges as the overlooked rapper that fans have listened to the most and praised least. Three classics, "Str8 Outta Compton" (1988), Eazy-E's debut "Eazy-Duz-It" (1988), where Ren does practically everything, and "Niggaz4Life" (1991), which for many is another absolute classic of the gangsta genre, even better than the NWA debut.
However, MC Ren alone never showed up, he arrived here in 1992, a year after the group’s hit album and after NWA disbanded, with a debut solo album. He remains in Eazy-E's Ruthless to release this EP, regarded as his best release, not a classic due to generic production: the rhythms play against him, but, lyrically, it's one of the best gangsta endeavors ever, with some dope cuts and a delivery in excellent and spatial rapping. Ren still displays remarkable technical and storytelling prowess, knocking down bars on gangsta, street, girls, and braggadocio topics. It adapts to the funky production, hard and frenetic, held up by a slow, gaunt and syncopated drum machine, the beats are often minimal West Coast, the work mainly of Bobcat, with an aggressive and hardcore style, slow and flowing, killing each cut. Among the weak points, the lack of variety in the chosen themes and the aforementioned rhythms, in any case, it's a pretty solid record and deserves the attention of NWA fans. 8/10.
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