Debut album by Adrian "King Just" Angevin, member of Shaolin Soldiers (group from Park Hill, Staten Island) and The Hillside Scramblers, U-God's group. Somehow, he's a minor affiliate of Wu-Tang. Production is handled by E-Swift of Alkaholics, Easy Mo Bee, Marcus Peake, MZA, Victor Flowers, and RNS. The guests are the Shaolin Soldiers (Profes aka Fes Taylor, Star, Leathaface and Baby Pa) and Mega Don.
King Just's first LP comes out in 1995, when audiences and critics are still hungry for Wu-Tang: there's a disordered selection of rhythms, which reward the aggressive style of the performer only when they come out of professional hands ("Shaolin Soldiers", E-Swift; "No Flows on the Rodeo", Easy Mo Bee; "Move on 'Em Stomp Remix", RNS). Lyrically, the guy isn't really saying anything, the only problem is he's doing it badly on bland beats, which makes him look like your random generic rapper. Shaolin Soldiers are no better than him, and they'll go in other directions after this CD, with Leathaface joining U-God crew alongside King Just, and Profes joining Inspectah Deck's Housegang.
Published by Black Fist and Select, despite receiving positive feedback from critics at the time of its release (there's an interesting 3.5/5 by "The Source"), even following the minor hit produced by RNS "Warrior's Drum", thirty years later the retrospective is rightly colder towards a record that doesn't stand out in any of its aspects — not even in the cover or title — in an atomic season for hip-hop. This tape is easily non-essential for Wu stans, 5/10.
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