Collaborative album between hip-hop artists Show aka Showbiz of DITC and KRS-One which produces the entire album except one track, provided by E-Blaze. Fred the Godson and Jay Nortey are the only guests. The project is the first of two collaborative albums released by the rapper of Boogie Down Productions during the 2011 season, and is focused almost exclusively on battle rap and braggadocio. KRS is unable to hold the listener's attention for half an hour with these lyrics, performed with a slow, tired, generic, unattractive delivery. The rhythm set has played a greater role than the norm in Lawrence Parker's latest albums, given the less and less weight of his lyrical proposal: in this case, unlike the last two albums, Showbiz fails to line up eleven good rhythms, creating a production that could be cohesive and strong enough.
Several rhythms are valid, two or three are below average and bad, and it wouldn't be a problem if KRS-One's lyricism was at least decent. On the previous record, True Master had managed to draw a simple sound painting, made of punctual samples and polite drums that somehow supported the rap and managed to go easily as instrumental, here instead the production simply is there and nothing more. Published by DITC Records, the product is considered just by some specialist publications and is ignored by other insiders and fans, buried among the most forgotten efforts in the catalog of the two Bronx veterans.
Rating: 5/10.
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