Ten short joints for a total of 17 minutes, it's not even an album in its typical sense, full of these one-minute rhythms and almost entirely instrumental.
The title is cryptic, meaning you have to go find what it means (and not everyone wants it) or have a serious background of the producer's side projects (and it's not for everyone). After having antagonized the few disillusioned ones he had attracted by producing "Alfredo" in this way, The Alchemist brings out this ten lo-fi jazzy rhythms, indulging himself trying to give an ever-different sound to his typical boom bap, slow with layered samples ("Blank Canvas"), eclectic with an elegant piano ("The Equation"), dark semi-mafioso ("The Beginning & the End") and pounding ("Rain Forest", "Isolated Spaces").
The tape is sparkling and experimental, but it's really far from The Alchemist's best selection of rhythms: the midtempo drum is present in different beats, including "Stained Glass", where the only guest of the record, Westside Gunn, offers his typical mafia bars, before proclaiming himself again as the "King of New York", before the skit from "The Departed" for the final outro. 6/10.
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