Damon "Dangerous Dame" Edwards (Dangerous Crew), rapper from Oaktown, California, brings out his sophomore jinx, after being one of the first rappers to sign with a major in 1990, releasing his debut album with Atlantic.
Following this effort, ignored by audiences and critics like the previous one, Dangerous Dame left the Dangerous Crew at the beginning of the nineties and joined No Limit Records, releasing an EP in 1994, and then also leaving No Limit and practically hang the mic on the nail. From Oakland, Edwards provides bars with an elementary and syncopated rapping style, sometimes joyful with hardcore vibes on some cuts. The album, released by indies T-Cap and Sugary Ray Howell Management, is kept afloat by the excellent production entirely performed by Ant Banks, also in the same crew as the rapper: thanks to a good drum machine and some well-chosen bass lines, Banks builds a pretty decent funky soundscape.
The album opens with a hip dance track with syncopated and pounding drum machine, follows a simple rhythm, then a kind of simple ballad, with slow syncopated delivery and a second ballad, slow rhythm and cut that acts as the title track to the disc. A couple more joyful hip dance songs follow, then "You Know the Rules" sees the beat shift to hip house. Before thanks, Dame throws down a posse with the Dangerous Crew, "Oaktown Funk": featuring Ant Banks, Father Dom, MC Ant, Richie Rich, all from Oakland, plus Spice 1. Rough hip house rhythm, skinny drum machine, pounding heavy syncopated, good delivery by almost everyone, with simple female chorus by Nic Nac.
Rating: 5/10.
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