Debut album by Funkdoobiest, an LA group formed by Ralph "DJ Ralph M" Medrano, Jason "Son Doobie" Vasquez and Tyrone "Tomahawk Funk" Pacheco. The group is affiliated with B-Real, DJ Muggs (both Cypress Hill) and Everlast (House of Pain), taking a cue from these two groups.
The lyrics of the group leader, Son Doobie, are simplistic and pretty poor, the boy revolves around topics such as smoking weed, braggadocio and attempts to address sexual themes such as watching porn, but doesn't detail or elaborate on this last topic either. His bars and those of his friend Tomahawk Funk fall tasteless on this West Coast production made by DJ Ralph M and T-Ray (Soul Assassins): the rhythms are rather simplistic and indecent, made with a minimal drum and weak hooks.
There are five people in the mix and the sound sucks, I have no idea what they've been up to. The few tracks that can be saved are the two singles from the tape: "The Funkiest" has a good funky boom bap provided by DJ Muggs and DJ Lethal, with sax samples and an annoying wacky sound looped in the background.
The two producers fail to repeat themselves in the second track, with a bad mix by Joe Nicolo and a forgettable delivery of the group. The other decent choice is "Freak Mode", DJ Ralph M's funky dance production for this commercial song, tight syncopated drum machine, mainstream delivery and pop chorus. With the arrival of the only guest, B-Real, you get the best track of the tape: simplistic funky boom bap, slow skinny drum machine left free to graze quietly, uninterpreted simple hook, effortlessly easy-going delivery of B-Real, here's easily the best. The rest is forgettable, the group is mediocre, here it does nothing to be remembered: the album is released by the local label Immortal Records and by the major Epic, so it has an honest commercial promotion that takes it up to the top 20 of rap albums. Not recommended, 5/10.
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