Debut solo album by DFC, the MC Breed-affiliated hip-hop duo consisting of cousin Alpha "Al" Breed and Bobby "T-Double" Thompson. Having debuted alongside MC Breed three years earlier, in some ways, the guys have solid connections with some of the best West Coast artists: production is handled by Warren G, The DOC and MC Eiht, as well as MC Breed, DJ Slip and lead producer Swift C. In the rapping side there are MC Breed, Boo Boo Breed, Bushwick Bill, MC Eiht, Warren G and Nate Dogg.
The tape opens with a beat of DJ Slip, slow pounding drum, decent samples, g-funk vibes with some cheap synths, there's an intro by Bushwick Bill of Geto Boys. The next piece is less good: MC Breed's simplistic boom bap, slow and dominant drum machine, messy and pounding, which annihilating the dull rapping of performers, including MC Breed himself. DJ Slip & MC Eiht pack a production that's close to that of a professional: acceptable g-funk synths, relaxed vibes, lean and slow drums, decent samples, good delivery of MC Eiht, less well the others. The leader of Compton's Most Wanted also remains in the following track: Swift C rhythm that seems to be a copy of the song just heard, slow pounding drum, decent samples, Eiht spits bars with a slow and energetic style, but it's not too inspired. Warren G is behind the keyboards in "Things in the Hood": simple boom bap, hard and messy slow drum, wacky sample, mediocre DFC delivery, the title track is lifted from the performances of MC Breed and Nate Dogg. Warren G is producer and performer on "Pass the Hooter", perhaps the last tune worth listening to before the record collapses: boom bap with other wacky samples, g-funk synths and a cheap drum, the rapper offers an inspired delivery, while the others don't stand out.
Track number seven features a forgettable Swift C beat: pounding dry drum coupled with snare drum in the background, decent samples, slow syncopated duo delivery, decent MC Breed. The eighth choice has a cheap and poor rhythm, Swift C places a slow, pounding messy drum to support the bars of the DFC and MC Breed. Boo Boo Breed is the guest guy on "Hand's on My Nine", a generic track on which rappers come up with a mediocre delivery: the extravagant samples are the sign that Warren G produced this song. The first solo cut of DFC corresponds to track number ten: Swift C is back in production and offers a bad rhythm, the boys sound badly as usual on one of the worst songs of the edition. The DOC produces "Digga Bigga Ditch", but his beat sounds like Swift C's, in a bad way. DJ Slip is the beatmaker of song number twelve, placing a poor drum for poor delivery of performers, including MC Breed, at his fifth and final performance in the edition. Swift C is also the author of the last song, bad production, poor drum, Christmas bells, all sounding much better than the last six cuts, and it's still quite weak.
Distributed by Assault Records and Big Beat, the album achieves a great commercial success, reaching the seventh place among hip-hop records and coming close to the top 70 in the pop chart. At the end of the year, it's one of the best-selling rap records, achieving greater success than MC Breed's solo projects. Consisting of 13 tracks, none under three minutes and most above four, for a total of 50 minutes, the record is inspired and similar to those of the West Coast scene, with many g-funk traits: the guests, arrived from the best of the Californian scene, manage to keep the project afloat for over half the time, then the tape becomes more and more bland. The main cause is to be found in the rapping and production of the main authors: they both sound like cheap West Coast imitations, so, I don't recommend this listening.
Rating: 5/10.
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