2022 was musically a good year for hip-hop, a great year if you will. But it got off to a bad wack start, with this thing released on the first day of the year, a collaboration between two veterans with several prestigious records in their respective discographies, Del the Funky Homosapien & Kool Keith. The quantity of material isn't excessive, a dozen songs and about half an hour of listening, but the quality isn't there.
The rhythms are uniquely created by Kool Keith and the problem lies mainly in the set chosen by Mr. Thornton, because basically he steals from Dalek and Death Grips making his beats dull and lifeless in an attempt to make an "experimental" production that sounds annoying most of the time. Del's contribution is something difficult to comment on clearly. If Kool Keith's recent releases have disappointed you, this one will make no exception, while Del may disappoint even and above all hardcore fans. He's at his worst, this is probably his worst effort ever, he's saying things, mumbling things, never remotely memorable, not helped by a sleazy production that makes you wish Kool Keith himself was more present behind the mic, for some odd reason.
It might also appeal to lighthearted fans of experimental and abstract hip-hop, nonetheless, I find this personally terrible effort matches the one made a few months earlier by Pharaohe Monch, another veteran talented artist with several top-tier conscious albums in his catalog, also bored and willing to change his musical direction trying to recycle himself in the more left-field / experimental section of rap with a new moniker (which for some reason, like this one by Del and Keith, wages war on vowels) and without any particular success.
Rating: 3/10.
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