Second mixtape released by rap supergroup Slaughterhouse, formed by the MCs Joell Ortiz, Crooked I and Royce da 5'9", with the addition of blogger joe budden. The album is ignored by the specialist critics who had cheered the group up to two years earlier, and is released by Shady Records as a starter for the group's third studio album, "Glass House", which is never published. Released on DatPiff, it soon became one of the most downloaded projects on the platform. Deservedly, this time.
The production is delivered by Nottz, illmind, Dark Knight, 8 Bars, AraabMuzik, DJ Pain, Tabu, The Heatmakerz and Harry Fraud. The tape, 10 cuts and about 47 minutes, breathes competence from every pore. This is how the previous two albums should have sounded. The guys are inspired, focused, confident and spit hardcore on a melodic production, with a light and robust drum machine in the background and samples that have the freedom to breathe chosen by producers who are REAL producers.
The disc is compact, cohesive, very solid, the four main performers reserve a solo each and close with the usual posse tracks (curious the absence of Crooked I at the end). Finally, it's a good album from Slaughterhouse that shows a lot of their potential and it's a great springboard for an album that never came and that's a shame. joe budden, still struggling with his drug addiction, after nearly preventing the group from signing with Shady Records by putting a spoke in the wheel via his Amalgam, starts mumbling things against the label and the new album, in the end, isn't made. The group arrives in a stalemate, budden, having understood his own incompetence, retires from rap (better late than never) and the group disbands. 7.3/10.
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