Louie "King Lou" Robinson, Frank "Capital Q" Alert, Phillip "Luv" Gayle and Hussain "Spek" Yoosuf make up the Dream Warriors group, one of the first to leave Canada and the Toronto scene after Maestro Fresh Wes.
Their debut effort is eclectic and fun, clearly inspired by Native Tongue acts such as De La Soul and the Jungle Brothers, it's hailed as one of the best efforts in the entire hip-hop alternative genre and as one of the best of the period. The production chosen by the group is both jazzy both funky, for most of the disc the cuts are jazz rap, but the sound chosen is rather in the general average also for being jazzy: only a few songs can qualitatively distinguish themselves from the rest, including "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style", with an eccentric rhythm and a good slow delivery, excellent sample, "Tune from the Missing Channel", an excellent simple dark jazzy beat, with piano and dope elements, a positive syncopated light-hearted delivery and the cut on the police racism, "U Could Get Arrested". The rest is mediocre, their rapping is positive and relaxed, but after a few tracks it starts to be generic and annoyingly boring due to their technically simplistic, slow and generic delivery, the flow never changes, nor does it increase the speed, tearing the already low replay value it could have.
Rating: 6/10.
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