Solo debut mixtape album by Christopher Francis "Young Chris" Ries, rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, member of the State Property affiliated duo Young Gunz with childhood friend Neef. Released by the independent label Nicetown Entertainment, the tape is hosted by DJ Noodles, production credits DJ Drama and Don Cannon. The main guest of the tape is his friend Neef, with four appearances, followed by members of the State Property Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Peedi Crack, as well as Pooda Brown, Junior Reid, Murda Mase and MOP.
Intro, then Young Chris comes in strong with the title track, brings out a barely decent verse on a hardcore and tense boom bap rhythm with perennial looped guitar licks. The beat is simplistic, skeletal, tight, it works somehow. The next song greets the West Coast with another minimal, cheap and annoying production, there are few g-funk synths. "We Don't Give a Fuck" (you might also find it as "Give a Fuck"; now, seriously, if you're not a relative of Young Gunz don't look for this stuff), tight skeletal rhythm, jazzy boom bap, bare drumsticks, the production bothers and there's Mase on the hook I guess, for some reason, with the Young Gunz in the rapping department. Track number five is a track as short as poor, and the next one is worse due to an overly annoying boom bap in its liturgical economy, complemented by a delivery that is generic and decent, but the vomiting beat effortlessly annihilates it.
Junior Reid gives us a ragga filler that I don't really know how to interpret, this piece isn't saying anything. Is there. Almost at random. I take off the almost. "Crack" makes you regret Reid's ragga beat and effortless hook, there's a mundane, poor and dark beat to accommodate Neef and Young Chris rap. Easily among the worst tracks along with the next one, which features the other State Property member as a guest, Peedi Crakk. Biggie's sample has nothing to do with this tape, this performer and this guy's life. When you think the tape has hit rock bottom, "Invincible" arrives. No, it must be just an unfortunate coincidence with the CNN cut, these guys will never dare, right? Wrong. A dude yells things, then Young Gunz spit out bars on the beat DJ Premier packed for Capone & Noreaga on their second album. The beat is perfect, Young Chris and Neef spit out bars with a syncopated, easy, effortless style in a hookless song.
They're doing almost not bad, that I begin to think that C-N-N are overrated. Maybe it's the Premier magic that makes these dudes stand out. In any case this is a good and nonsense highlight of this tape. If you listen to this song twice, you understand that Neef has nothing to do with hip-hop. Same can be said for the other. There are glasses that shatter too often, it bothers me. "Original Gangstas" is a super posse track featuring Neef, Pooda Brown, Peedi Crakk, Beanie Sigel, Freeway and MOP from Brownsville, Brooklyn, to give it that ignorant hardcore touch that was missing from the State Property, brought back to life here by Young Chris. Boom bap jazzy hysterical, tight, cheap, simplistic, weak, Chris Ries is poor, the tough raw mode of MOP is better, Pooda Brown and Peedi Crakk both bad, while Neef has the weakest flow of the decade. Sigel & Freeway resurrect this track and also have him checked out by the emergency room. Then come three bare, simplistic, cheap and bouncy rhythms, before Freeway kills "Down Low" on a triumphant, albeit still weak and cheap production, the boy is another level than his fellow citizens. There are three more songs, but they are one worse than the other, the ending comes on an annoying beat, heavy to digest, it sounds really bad and Young Chris isn't particularly inspired, extracting bars with a subdued rap.
Tape quite boring, effortless, weak, with random highs. Not recommended, 4/10.
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