In 1992, Canadian hip-hop group Rascalz debuted with their first studio album, released by their independent label Calabash Records. They get a fair amount of prominence and the following year, Epic releases the album again, distributed by Sony. The group is a Vancouver trio formed by rappers Romeo "Red1" Jacobs and Barry "Misfit" Leonard, and DJ Cristian "Kemo" Bahamonde. The group doesn't stand out neither from the lyrical point of view nor from the musical point of view, nor from the stylistic point of view, it's all average, it's an album done well overall, but a little too generic. Braggadocio lyricism, gaunt boom bap with slow, tight and pounding drum machines, jazzy samples and a slow syncopated delivery style. Among these eleven cuts that make up the 35 minutes of listening, "Funky Needs" stands out, where, on a decent jazzy boom bap with trailing drum, and shrill and tight looped sample in the background, the duo delivers with a raw and rough style that in somehow it works. Either way, it's not an essential record. 6/10.
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