Sort of collection of previous bars dropped by Blaq Poet in 2000s mixed with new lyrics over all new beats, hence the title. This CD is the debut album of the Queensbridge rapper. 45 Scientific is the main producer of the record, along with Blaq Poet himself, DJ Premier, The Alchemist, Easy Mo Bee and DJ Sincere. The guest are KL, J Roc, Verse, Team Shug and Teflon.
DJ Premier welcomes the first official solo album of the thirty-year career of Queensbridge veteran Blaq Poet. "Bang This" boasts an amazing boom bap jazzy tight, modern, dirty, underground, perfect by Preemo, excellent entry for Blaq Poet who delivers determined/hardcore, smoothness, realizing a great cut. "Ghetto Shit" is the first of many beats provided by the French beatmaker 45 Scientific: jazzy beat, simple, rhythmic, tense, gloomy, tight, with frenetic violins in the background, good delivery by Poet. DJ Premier turns on "Message from Poet" with another great production: jazzy tight rhythm, essential, glossy, underground, beautiful. Excellent effort by Preme, good delivery by Blaq Poet, silky, technical, rough here. The hook is simple, scratched.
After a jazzy essential tune with fresh verses from J Roc & KL, The Alchemist blesses the record with a nice dark beat, simple, done very well while Poet delivers raw, hardcore and regular over this musical carpet. Then, Premier, again: gorgeous boom bap tight, essential, excellent delivery by the Queens emcee, chorus left exclusively to the beat. The best side of the record is gone. After that, 45 Scientific e Blaq Poet produce average cut ("My Nigga" is raised by Team Shug), "The Cash" has a disturbing jazzy somber music, in the only not accessible song of the first part of the disk. "My Nigga" has a dark jazzy oriental rhythm, with a deep jazzy handset bridge.
One of the best tracks produced by 45 Scientific is "What Ya'll Gonna Do?": excellent essential, simple, tense, very dark beat, basically perfect work, good delivery by Poet which maintains the disturbing atmosphere of the track. "Poet Has Come" is the last choice touched by the magic of Premier: is a skeletal, tight, gloomy, tense, boom bap jazzy, sounds good with lively jazzy cornet in the background. Poet seems inspired also here. Easy Mo Bee takes the place behind the keyboards and realizes a good minimal production, jazzy, light, oriental, well done. From here, 45 Scientific and Blaq Poet alternates producing one song each: "After All This Time" is the best cut realized by the French dude, with a tight, essential, simple, tense e somber jazzy beat, and a good determined/hardcore delivery by Poet, first tune with soulful female chorus, uncredited here.
"Rhyme Crime Boss", with DJ Sincere to assist Blaq Poet, is a good track: amazing boom bap jazzy sad, gloomy, essential, good hardcore delivery by Poet, with excellent lively piano in background. Beautiful cut. Then, follows average pieces conditioning by a decent/subdued delivery by Poet, functional hooks, generic jazzy minimal and skeletal, tense, dark, tight rhythms, which are distinguished by a piano looped in the background ("Hard to Believe"), a sad ("Psycho"), dystopian ("Still Flippin'") or tense mood with hysterical beat ("The Cash Part 2"). Police sirens introduce the final choice, "Mind of a Criminal": Blaq Poet calls J Roc, KL & Teflon for a[n average] posse cut over a good beat jazzy tight, simple and dark, but no one seems to want to take full advantage of the rhythm offered by 45 Scientific.
By conclusion: it's a sort of collection of previous bars with which Poet has beaten suckers in previous years. Good selection, with beats by Premier, Alchemist and Easy Mo Bee, in addition to the French 45 Scientific which creates an all too glossy production, ends up being generic. Album-tribute to ignorance, braggadocio, hardcore and underground. NY. QB.
Highlights: "Bang This", "Bloody Mess", "Watch Your Back", "After All This Time", "You Fucked Up", "Rhyme Crime Boss".
Rating: 7.6/10.
No comments:
Post a Comment