Serious candidate for the hip-hop cover of the year: four dudes in the center of the cover are on top of rocks and in front of flames that should be those of hell, from left to right, one is holding (badly) a shotgun, the second one is a dwarf who looks up at the sky spreading his arms as if to say what I'm still doing here with a revolver gun on his right hand that seems to want to drop, a bottle of liquor at his feet and a snake around his neck, the third guy is a dwarf crouched between two rocks and I don't understand what he's doing, and the fourth one is laughing as he's pointing his rifle at something or someone. Everyone wears a hat, at the bottom the writing of the title in evidence, at the top the name of the artists, defined as The Baby Geto Boys and at the bottom right almost bigger than the title itself, a label that shows the featuring with the Geto Boys.
The group consists of Drunk D, Bar-None, Ghetto MC and DJ Bad News Black and is signed by Rap-A-Lot. The record is opened by DJ Red Alert, then the Geto Boys arrive in "Only the Strong", simple lean rhythm and decent syncopated delivery of the group. The third song is the first hard rehearsal of this Houston group: take home a track on their own, it's not easy, because the piece is six minutes and it's pretty mediocre and exhausting, but it's not awful. The next one also goes beyond six minutes, a vicious and exhausting track with a slow syncopated and lean drum. Skit, then other mediocre simple songs. The double piece "Mother Fuckin 'Thugs / Fugitives on the Run" has a total of over ten minutes and features Big Mello credited and Scarface by the Geto Boys uncredited, whose excellent delivery livens up the whole project. The rest of the later tunes are disarming, the lyrics don't stray from the generic gangsta ish and mediocre braggadocio and the rhythms are simplistic or annoying, placing track of over five minutes doesn't help the fluidity of this tape. Recommended if you are a fan of the gangsta made from the south, otherwise in the Rap-A-Lot catalog there are better albums.
Rating: 6/10.
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