Kevin Danell Mann debuts with this half-hour EP, nine tunes, intro, outro, one skit and one short track. Brotha Lynch Hung here shows a good flow and several dark and violent lyrics, as usual, but his typical horrorcore central theme is chopped up and randomly scattered throughout the record, replaced by typical topics of the gangsta, which was still popular at the time on the West Coast. The MC focuses mainly on various gangsterism over a production based on funky, simple and dark, obviously cheap: the samples are honest, there are jazzy and g-funk vibes, while the drum is minimal, thin and slow. The rapper does well his work in this prelude to his studio album, the EP is released by local label Black Market Records, manages to access the Billboard chart of hip hop albums and carves out a niche of fans, however it's ignored by critics. Interesting effort, even if there aren't many high points but the title track.
Rating: 7/10.
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