Collaborative album between New York rapper Chaine "CJ Fly" Downer and Lawrence producer Patrick "Statik Selektah" Baril. CJ Fly calls guests mainly from the Pro Era collective, as well as "outsiders" like Haile Supreme, OSHUN, Lexipaz and Conway the Machine. The tape deals with personal themes and crime with a generally positive mood, on a jazzy and bland production entirely made by Statik: clearly not the his best set, there are no slips, the beats sound quite decently, but no one surprises in these 47 minutes, while the performers pull out bars with a slow and syncopated rapping, impacting the drum midtempo without disappointing. The Pro Era posse at the end is interesting, but the project struggles to stand out in the midst of the dense tide of seasonal releases. 6.5/10.
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