First album by Ten Wanted Men, hip-hop supergroup led by Tommy Wright III and also composed of Princess Loko, Lil Ramsey, C-9, Mac T-Dog, Project Pimp and Womack da Omen. As stated by Tommy Wright in the 2018 interview with Torii MacAdams, the members of the group were not permanent, therefore, deceived by the name, some online sites tend to include other rappers to get to the infamous ten, including La' Chat, Killa-C, Marrio Marshall, Troublemaker, 1st Degree, Undacova, Kingpin and Wild Child (the latter three featured on the record, along with Haylo and Jesse James, a cousin of Tommy Wright and member of the group Niggaz of Destruction).
The cassette is divided into two sides, "Wanted: Dead Side" and "Wanted: Alive Side" for a total of 13 tracks and about 58 minutes of listening. The rhythms are created by Tommy Wright through interesting patterns of drums, often dry, tight and downtempo, chosen at the limits of perfection, and layered samples of dark and elegant pianos, evil organs, disturbing and tense strings, with which the artist obtains perennially fresh, dark and ill music, relentless and beautiful. The rappers all sound great, Tommy Wright flies over these beats, Lil Ramsey offers at his best, while Princess Loko is impressive.
She makes iconic a dozen words on the hook of "Don't Start Shit Pt. '4'", delivers in a dope way in "Nine 2 'Yo' Skull", on one of the most amazing beats of the year, and gets two solo songs. The second is "Gangsta Bitch", an iconic cut in which Princess Loko kills the beat with a tight, fluid, unstoppable flow, on a melodic soundscape, with a perfect drum pattern, beautiful strings and an immaculate piano scale that guarantee both dark and positive vibes.
The first is "Loko '4' Real". Tommy Wright's chosen beat sounds lively for about a minute, then the loop expands with triumphant dark sounds and an extroverted lively drum, and the beat is soon clouded by the wonderfully decadent vibes coming straight from Giorgio Moroder's synths in "Scarface". Princess Loko totally dominates the track with an incredible flow that is a blessing, splendid voice, she sounds like the best rapper to have delivered on Tony Montana movie music. She comes back for a second verse and buries the rhythm, divine.
Essential album in the hip-hop decade, sensational. 9/10.
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