Collaborative album between Fred the Godson, Joell Ortiz and The Heatmakerz. It's the first studio album for the Bronx rapper, the seventh for the Brooklyn rapper, while the production is entirely handled by the group from the Bronx. Heatmakerz set is decent, good samples, poor drums, melodic sounds, it's all pretty generic. The soul samples facilitate the delivery of rappers, without being able to hide the economy of production: that the sample of George Michael's "Careless Whispers" is the best of the edition doesn't help, moreover Fred and Ortiz run better in "Raw" than in the other songs. Jim Jones steals the show with a velvety flow in "Feliz Navidad". 28-minute independent album divided into 9 short tracks: from such a project, featuring three talented independent artists on the hip-hop circuit, and two MCs out of XXL's Freshman Class (Ortiz at first edition in 2007, Fred in 2011), you expect something, which at least is a good product. Instead, the tape falls short of expectations. Both go on autopilot and low energy, back and forth songs are the least memorable. It's a decent album, not as good as you might expect from the opening credits. 6/10.
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