Second album in six months for the duo formed by KXNG Crooked & Joell Ortiz, both former members of the hip-hop group Slaughterhouse, an experience around which they founded the LP released last spring. The two expert emcees return with an extremely loaded and swollen product, just under 70 minutes divided into 24 tracks. The first half hour is fine, there are pleasant rhythms and hardcore rapping from the two, then after "Vibrate Higher" featuring AZ, the record no longer feels essential and soon becomes bland and ineffective, encroaching on pop rap. Honorable mention for "Pawnshop Jewelry", masterpiece sample, tight rapping from Crooked & Ortiz w/ the hook from MRK SX. It has a structure that is more suited to a mainstream release that M could promote if not distribute through his label rather than resemble a mixtape or a record released on the indie circuit. In any case, it's a completely off-target, but it's not wrong to keep trying, because probably somewhere there's a niche of loyal Slaughterhouse die-hards who still want to hear good hardcore projects. 4/10.
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