The best female MC of her time. She drops a second album when everyone was still afraid to release the singles.
And her sophomore is up to the debut, no female rapper will ever come and bring out two excellent albums, consecutive, in two years. And they're both on the sidelines of the top ten best albums of the year. MC Lyte has done it and for this reason alone, she deserves all her props. The rapper remains on the braggadocio theme and continues to spit with a splendid and technically impeccable flow, while the production seems even improved, with several samples from seventies and eighties funky.
Behind the keyboards are King of Chill, Grand Puba, Parrish Smith, Marley Marl and above all Audio Two, who perhaps have taken lessons in the meantime, I don't know, but surely, they must have learned something because their rhythms are good here. Although it suffers from a not too bright second part, it's a solid disc with a general improved sound compared to the debut, also here Lyte destroys her rival Antoinette with a dissing killer ("Shut the Eff Up!") and gives us a gem ("Cappucino").
Positively received by critics and rediscovered as a classic by retrospective, supported by three singles ("Cha Cha Cha", "Stop, Look, Listen", "Cappucino"), the album is released by First Priority Music and Atlantic, conquering the public again and ending up among the best-selling hip-hop records of the year, peaking at number six on the R&B chart. 8/10.
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