Sixth project by Joell Ortiz in the last four years, the Brooklyn rapper is committed to building a solid and coherent discography, releasing material with regular frequency. He has succeeded so far, excluding that EP with Salaam Remi, thanks to his own skills and a competent production that for a good part of his career, including the period with Slaughterhouse, he didn't get.
In his ninth studio album, the MC continues to engage in solid and personal lyrics, nevertheless, it's not assisted by the choices of the producers, whose rhythms, mainly created by The Heatmakerz, sound little inspired and not good during this project: the choice of samples is often bland and insipid, and soul ones are whining to the point of annoying, while drum patterns are mediocre for most of the time. Guests add little to the material already present and the other beatmakers, Salaam Remi, Hesami and Namir Blade, make little to get noticed: a few strong songs emerge, the one with KXNG Crooked, the first cut and when he delivers over Apollo Brown beats, the rest of the tape sounds half-rnb and effortlessly. It's not a necessary listening and is rightly ignored by the insiders, despite a promising lyricism. 6/10.
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