Nice & Smooth's third album, released three years after the last one. The title is a tribute to the eponymous movie released almost a decade before this effort. The kids don't seem to have any desire here anymore. Greg Nice handles a lot of the production and doesn't do a great job, to say the least. There are two signature beats from Showbiz of DITC, they are both similar and forgettable: they could be a good support for the dynamic style of the duo, also for an attempted hymn to weed in "Blunts", but the guys at the mic somehow mess it up and can't move forward.
Phat Kat is the author of two other beats including the first single of the album, the well-regarded banger “Old to the New”. Mark Spark produces one of the least successful songs by placing unbearable drums and producers Cory Rooney and Prince Markie Dee are credited on the grueling ballad "Cheri", which seems to never end.
When rapping the boys are as if they weren't really there and the presence of the two guests makes it more evident: “Let’s All Get Down” is basically a Slick Rick track — The Ruler later included it in his third LP, "Behind Bars", released at the end of the year — while Everlast enters too hard on a rhythm on which he feels fully at ease like the one Nice created for "Save the Children", in which the House of Pain emcee pulverizes the beat. Then there would be other rappers to deliver bars, but what you really hear is only the dust that continues to rise and fall thrown by the guitar in the middle of the moving grass for two minutes.
Disc without rhyme or reason, composed of eleven random pieces for a total of 40 minutes. The rap is too weak, the production is poor, the guys sound bad even when they give in to commercial concessions and go towards pop rap. It's one of the poorest records released by Def Jam and, not surprisingly, their latest with the label distributed by PolyGram: paradoxically, the album obtained their best commercial response, entering the top 15 of rap releases. Never recommended, 3/10.
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