HRSMN — The Last Ride

First, last and only LP by HRSMN, formerly The Four Horsemen, referring to the horsemen of the Apocalypse. On the cover, from left to right: Killah Priest with the Wu-Tang Clan emblem represents death, Ras Kass represents pestilence, Kurupt represents famine and Canibus represents war, according to the interpretations of the boys, who do the last ride on the Moon...

This record isn't a disappointment just because you get there without any expectations. They spit battle rap, and what could they do? I have no idea. The guest seem pulled out of a random rap guest generator, Chino XL, Phil the Agony, Hus Kingpin, Planet Asia. The lead producer is Who? and somehow his songs are the freshest ones. Bronze Nazareth is the beatmaker of "Centaurs", the other dudes behind the keyboards don't do anything to talk about. The tracks are all too long, the four emcees spit hardcore on too minimal rhythms.

This supergroup stuff in hip-hop never seems to have worked and this is yet another demonstration of it. Take these guys, each of them has at least one classic record in their discography, so the potential was there, but it's precisely the deeply poor choice of rhythms that makes this project (like the previous ones) collapse from the very beginning. 5/10.