Album number 19 in 19 years for Styles P, rapper from Yonkers, New York, member of LOX. There are more than 10 different producers on these 14 tracks, including the MC himself, while guests are Yemi Sauce, Mrs. Farma, itsTheReal, Dyce Payne and Lavish Life: they pretty much disappoint everyone.
After four black covers in a row, the rapper returns to white-gray, without too much inspiration. The soundscape extracted from the guys behind the keyboards is pretty mediocre most of the time, when it's not weak: the beats sound simplistic and cheap, Styles spits on bland trap musical carpets and releases nothing professional, with a dull, generic flow. Not even modern production attempts and pseudo-experimental rhythms sound worthy here, it's almost all forgettable: in the second half of the tape, arrive beats that look like stale imitations of the Griselda sound ("Scattered", "Order in the Court") on which LOX's MC sounds decently, well, but not too inspired.
The hooks sound worse than usual and the guests don't help even in this respect, with Lavish Life protagonist of one of the most unfortunate moments in "Stop the Rain", and Dyce Payne who manages to do worse a few minutes before, performing with autotune on the worst rhythm of the tape. "Hit Different" should be the hit of the album, the banger, the masterpiece: Perm's rhythm suggests all this, dusty horn sample, dark mood, then comes a snare drum that sucks and ruins the melody. After two / three plays maybe I can stand it, but this tune could have been a classic: Styles P is inspired and his flow is good, then comes the typical anti-vax line that definitively buries the whole project. It's all to be thrown away, move on to the next one.
At this point, I pray for Harry Fraud, Alchemist or a producer of that caliber to come along to make at least one classic LP in the Styles P discography. I don't know, I think Conductor Williams could do well too. 4/10.
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