Debut album for Jersey City hip-hop group Private Investigators, consisting of David "Redhead Kingpin" Guppy, Parker "Boring Sample" Thiessen, Joseph "DJ Wildstyle" Mann and Knowledge. The album is produced by Dawüd Nurrid-Diyn, Will Nice, Mark-A-Spark, DJ Wildstyle and Private Eyes. In rapping, these dudes are indistinguishable, they've good flowing styles, youthful and lively, nevertheless, they don't say anything lyrically. Their bars, mostly braggadocio, fall generic and bland over tight and hard East Coast jazzy boom bap rhythms. The production, mostly done by Nurrid-Diyn and Will Nice, leads the entire project by itself, with a robust sound that doesn't make you regret most of the competing projects released in the same period: the drum is minimal and dirty, it hammers hard, there are good honest samples, it's an ideal sound carpet for the easy-going slow-flowing and amateur style of these guys. Guests add nothing but a couple of reggae fillers ("Who Am I?", "Silencer"). Somehow, they've a deal with EMI, which distributes the album via Virgin and Capitol, dozens of audio engineers arrive to fix the record, which ultimately sells nothing and puts an end to the group's career. Average tape, with generic rapping and good East Coast dirty beats, listening isn't essential. 6/10.
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