Abandoning Premier, Guru works with producer solar on his fifth LP, which comes out four years after the previous one. 19 tracks, just under an hour of listening, guests of the caliber of Jean Grae, Talib Kweli, Styles P, Doo Wop, B-Real and Jaguar Wright. Normally, the music is bad and unbearable, just poor at the top: for "False Prophets", I noted "beat stolen to catholic sect that wants to convert to paganism". Lyrically, the Boston MC returns to early career street themes, while his rapping is boring and soporific, solar's weak, cheap and shoddy rhythms are unfit with his style and make the listener lose the attention in short while. This also allows every single guest to appear clearly superior to the lead performer, which is evident when you have the talents of Styles, Jean Grae or Kweli on the track, less so when there's B-Real, who even with his unpleasant voice, sounds almost better than Guru. Released by solar's label, the album sees little profit, failing to surpass the top fifty places among the rap releases. 4/10.
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