Rodney O & Joe Cooley, this hip-hop duo from Los Angeles returns to the rap game, we could actually say "it comes", because it practically never was there. At the end of the eighties, it already sucked, when all the acts were rough and amateur, they managed to do worse than all.
It wasn't easy at the time, but from the sons of Bobby Jimmy and The Critters, one of the worst West Coast bands in history, it was predictable. From this group comes Jeffrey Darryl "General Jeff" Page, who is neither Rodney Oliver nor Joe Cooley, is just another person. So, this duo is a trio, until 1991, when General Jeff leaves the group. Self-produced, but for some reason Egyptian Lover is the executive producer. Heck, you know everything's gonna go wrong here. And it does.
Weak bars, simplistic production, thin, slow, heavy and pounding drum machine, rough and hard, tight, never livable, not even in the instrumental piece ("Chase the Bass"), a series of hooks that have no sense of existing, random samples and annoying and also a horrible g-funk attempt in "Sounds of the Underground", with synths sounding very bad on a cheap rhythm and with a weak drum. Over 45 minutes, this record works well for 4, those of "California Cruiser": everything is right here, light jazzy-funky light slow beat, slow light drum, calm and smooth delivery and hook with samples from a classic ("Footsteps in the Dark" of the Isley Brothers, you know it because the year before DJ Pooh flipped it into the perfect soundscape for the Ice Cube classic, "It Was a Good Day"). However, this is a rare exception that cannot save the album.
Rating: 3/10.
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