This tape by Dom Pachino is more contained than the debut, unfortunately, it doesn't mean that it's necessarily done well. He keeps "The Puerto Rican Terrorist" as a description of him on the cover as well, and brings out a product of 13 tracks, half of which are produced by 4th Disciple. Wu-Element selection is simple and minimal, no beat impresses in any way, although you can guess when he's not behind the keyboards because the other producers, the same Dom Pachino and Chapel of the group of Dom Pachino Team Napalm, provide less-good rhythms than the already low average of the period in the East Coast.
If the production of this disc is hiding, lyricism isn't the strongest element of it. The lyrics say he has the lyrics, but after hearing the word "snake" for the twentieth time, you may begin to question this bold statement. The record is battle rap with Dom Pachino building verses around gangsterisms, crime, sex, women and bravado, with several frayed lines of thug rap in almost every song. The rapper immediately states that he hasn't fully digested the end of Killarmy, mainly attributing the decision to the other co-founder 9th Prince — who goes from main guest of "Tera Iz Him" (2002) to excluded on this album and in its following ones until 2008, period around which they started recording new tracks and working on a new Killarmy album.
Despite being largely made up of 2/7 of Killarmy most of the time, it easily stays out of the recommended disks even for die-hard Killa Bees fans. Dom Pachino has enjoyable material even as a soloist, but it's not to be sought in this period, in my opinion.
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