The fact that the title and the cover pay homage to one of the worst mafia movies ever made isn't a great sign of the quality of the album made in collaboration between the Los Angeles rapper Holocaust (Warcloud) and the British producer-rapper Shaka Amazulu the 7th, both part of Killa Beez groups, peripheral affiliates of the Wu-Tang. The West Coast rapper extracts several songs recorded years earlier from his archives and gives them titles that refer to motion pictures, especially horror genres, Cronenberg's disaster itself is closer to horror than to crime.
Half of the production credits are not available, while the rapping is performed by both Warcloud and Shaka Amazulu the 7th, along with Killa Beez guests: American Poets 2099, Black Knights, Warghosts (all Warcloud groups), School of the Gifted (Shaka Amazulu's group), Shabazz the Disciple, Killah Priest and Frukwan. The two performers both have a hoarse, rough voice and random flows, spitting bars on rusty, fairly generic music clouds for just over forty minutes and a dozen tracks. "The Gravedigger" presents one of the most apt productions and a good roster of rappers, one official member of Gravediggaz, and the two Sunz of Man rappers that were close to the group in the nineties. In "The Dark Side of the Moon" it would be reasonable to expect a sample from Pink Floyd, instead, it arrives from Aerosmith, in one of those cases where the sample alone saves the track.
Holocaust / Warcloud releases an LP after nine years, but his tape is uninspired. 4.5/10.
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