Fourth studio album for Seattle rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot, written, produced and mixed by the author. There's an almost decent rhythm to the first track, with poor drum, weak sample, dull hook, and a syncopated delivery, then the record reveals itself in all its poor nature.
The rhythms made by the rapper are mediocre and poor, mainly composed of tight, weak, bouncy, pounding and slow drums, sometimes bad and annoying, unlivable. Samples range from the indecent, to the generic, to the annoying, while the hooks sound faint, bad and lame. From the rapping point of view, the boy, now over 30 y/o, feels tired and completely out of modern rap: his delivery is mediocre, bad, wack and often annoying.
At the end of the album, the guy produces the best beat with a rare decent sample, however, he puts in a poor and clumsy drum, which stumbles often, like his rapping style, also placing a mediocre hook and definitely ruining the song. With these cool features, all 14 tracks sound pretty much the same and indistinct for 54 minutes, building a grueling and mean record: production is shoddy and coupled with bad braggadocio rapping, this weird pop rapper here is at his worst. The audience welcomes the album lukewarmly (out of the top 25 among hip-hop records), while the critics don't sink it, for reasons of friendship rather than quality of the content. Commercial party tape, never recommended, 3.5/10.
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