Two female rappers try to enter the rap game during 1988. Unfortunately, you can't stop KRS and Rakim, the game is changing. This product encompasses the entry into the recording industry for Sidney "Finesse" Hall and Sheraine "Synquis" Brewster, both part of the Uptown Crew along with Groove B Chill, Heavy D & the Boyz, Marley Marl, The Brothers Black and Woody Rock.
The beat is moving away, here it's re-proposed in a modern attempt, but you feel that the album is made with the canons of the old school end (and therefore pre Run-DMC): eight tracks, short, few lines, bars simple and casual, heavy and minimal drum machine, hardcore deliveries (sometimes similar to Run-DMC) but a kind of hardcore that seems bland, kind of «soft hardcore», hooks that are forced to drag the songs to the end, confused minimal rhythms, and a usual ballad in the middle (“I'll Be There"; proposed with the minimal drum machine and that weighs down a track that by its nature should provide for light production).
As with most old school records, the first part is more bearable than the second one, in which boredom takes over and the listening may end up before the thirty minutes of the entire album. Released by Uptown Records and MCA, the disk is a flop in sales and after a final single ("Straight from the Soul") in a Salt n Pepa style, produced by The Trakmasterz, marks the end of the career of the duo. Later, Finesse will join the all-female Wu-Tang Clan-affiliated group Deadly Venoms. 4/10.
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