The concept behind this street album (product halfway between the studio album and the mixtape) is quite interesting: Royce puts on the table an hour of material made together with independent artists or / and who don't have a contract. Production is handled by Six July, Asar, Great Scott, Nottz and KIDD. Guests are Big Herk, Juan, Ingrid Smalls, Sara Stokes, Cee Lo Green, Yo Gotti, Juan, Kid Vishis, Blade Icewood, K-Doe and La tha Darkman.
Six July's first beat on "I Owe You" sounds quite decent, then the guys can't get a single beat right for nearly an hour. On a simplistic, cheap and outrageous production, the rapping of these dudes sounds limp, bland, bored. The guys behind the keyboards are competing to see who makes the worst beat: Great Scott goes a long way in this race of the scarcest, Six July is at that level but not that bad yet, then Nottz comes in and does a parody of DJ Muggs beats in "Blow Dat", inexplicable and irritating. The seedy sexual skits are even worse than the beats, I believe there are two skits in a row of this type with the last one wanting to pay homage to "New Jack City"? Blaohw.
Royce's meager album, ugly from start to finish, not living up to the rapper's name, each cut sinks into mediocrity. Among the guests, Yo Gotti, Ce Loo, his brother Kid Vishis and La the Darkman stand out: the latter, an affiliate of the Wu-Tang Clan, is the protagonist of the best track of the disc, rapping over a lonely and paranoid production of Asar, appropriate to the title. 3/10.
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