At around twelve years old, McKinley "Lil Mac" Phipps, Jr. is one of the youngest to debut in hip hop, perhaps the youngest ever to do it. His debut album is entirely produced by 2 Hype Producers and is written by Gregory "D", Mannie Fresh and Lil' Mac, with keyboards played by David Torkanowsky, Willie T and Sally Townes.
Released by Yo! Records, it presents fairly generic lyrics for a boy of his age, the music doesn't help much with these simple, minimal, lean, sometimes frenetic rhythms, to which the young MC combines a decent and honest delivery (neither good nor indecent) closer to talking than rapping, when he accelerate ("The Mnd", "Your Days Are Over") it's perceived that he's struggling. There's some rare rhythmic variation that keeps company with the functional lame hooks and banal bridges, the LP doesn't give up the ballad and the disco-dance crossover tune, both quite mediocre: almost all tracks are bad and there isn't something really to save here. 3/10.
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