Eric Tyrone Breed, who went down in history as MC Breed, brings out all his pezonovantes for his third studio album in three years, "The New Breed", his best career effort. Intro, outro, ten songs, none under three minutes, 46 minutes of listening overall. The rapper chooses generic gangsta themes straight out of Dr. Watson's school on a production that breathes deeply from the West Coast, with beats made mostly by Breed himself with the help of The DOC, Warren G and Colin Wolfe.
The new Breed debuts with a wacky intro, relaxed lounge rhythm, slow drum, vocal synthesizer intro, followed by a funky boom bap, with drum machine pounding and slow, smooth delivery of Breed, decent here. On the third choice comes the best tune of his career: simple chorus with jazzy bridge, lively and vibrant rhythm, funky lounge, slow and tight syncopated skinny drum machine, back and forth delivery of Breed with 2Pac, in good style, then the Oakland rapper leaves it in place with a flowing, clean, crisp, dope verse.
To stay alive and at the same time let you know that the other seven tracks won't suck in comparison to the one that just went away, Breed muddies the waters by holding another slow funky lounge rhythm and by placing two random guests on a slow and pounding syncopated drum machine, perennial g-funk synths in the background but distant. "Comin' Real Again" is a funky boom bap piece with a wacky background sound, MC's meager slow syncopated delivery and there's the return of 2Pac, not credited for hook and outro.
"Just Another Clip" boasts one of the best productions of this record, dark boom bap with Christmas bells looped in the background, not too far apart, skinny slow and tight syncopated drum, g-funk synth on simple functional chorus, Breed's decent slow rapping. The seventh song is a posse with Admiral D, Black Ceasar (the name is mistaken as the credit says) and Jibri, on a decent funky beat. G-funk synths are back in "Coversation", then boom bap funky skinny and dark for cut number nine, where Flint's rapper delivers almost whispering on a great dark piano scale looped in the background accompanied by strings. "Ain't 2 Good" is a Breed posse with some of his cousins, probably closing a funky rhythm with thumping drum before the final outro.
Decent album overall, not excellent, but not bad either, held aloft by the presence of 2Pac and by the professional production of Dre-affiliated West Coast artists who came to Breed's rescue: released by Wrap Records, SDEG Records and Power Records, distributed by Ichiban Records, the LP is pushed forward in the charts, making it into the top 20 of rap records, while the MC doesn't fully embrace either the gangsta theme or the g-funk sound and these choices don't allow its disk to take off higher.
Rating: 7/10.
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