In 1992, Kid Frost releases his second studio album. Pretty easy and decent West Coast production, mostly funky without giving up jazzy, gangsta and violent lyrics, also quite easy: pretty curious the choice not to deliver them with a hardcore style, the rapper born in Windsor, California goes slow and technically is your typical generic MC, with a light-hearted and relaxed style.
Skit intro on skinny funky boom bap, then title track right away: simple beat, jazzy boom bap with sample sax dope in the background, introductory skit, skinny vibrating syncopated drum machine and Frost's smoothness syncopated slow delivery. "The Volo" is a pretty decent tune, anticipating the minimal funky rhythm of "I Got Pulled Over", where MC Eiht treads the song with a determined, slow, smoothness delivery.
Nothing seems to be the same after the performance of the leader of Compton Most Wanted, also because rather dull and commercial choices arrive: "No Sunshine" is opened by a skit, simple lo-fi rhythm with skinny drum slow syncopated tight, slow delivery, functional hook tribute to Bill Whiters and his classic, while "Thin Line" is a ballad, casual and murderous, minimal and simple slow production, slow syncopated skeletal drum machine, female chorus in the background, functional pop-ballad hook, slow singing delivery.
It's the slowest and longest song of the album, grueling, despite a Boo-Ya TRIBE that I haven't even marked what he did, but I honestly don't want to go see it again. There's a skit, to get you back from the shock I think, then a couple more simple tracks, the first has a soulful chorus, the second is a hip house beat with functional reggae hook, another winding and killer filler in this second effort by the second Latin rapper ever.
You're now in a part of the album that's surrounded by useless skits, three in six cuts, in between pretty simple ones, there's a soul pop hook that makes "Smiling Faces" stand out, before the final three mediocre choices. To close the record, he puts "Mi Vida Loca", simple rhythm, confused, slow syncopated delivery, functional hook with splendid sample of sax dope: Frost wants to redo the success of "La Raza", he can't, but damn if he comes close.
Rating: 6/10.
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