In 1989 is formed The Afros, hip-hop group from New York composed by the rappers Wendell "Hurricane" Fite and Tadone "Kool Tee" Hill and by the DJ Kip "Kippy-O" Morgan. Hurricane (DJ of the Beastie Boys) and Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC created the concept of the group after watching together the movie "Hollywood Shuffle" (1987), thus deciding that all members of the group would wear Afro wigs in order to imitate the blaxploitation films of the seventies. The group is the first act to signs with Jam Master Jay's label JMJ Records. In 1989, the Afros appears in the music video of Run-DMC's "Pause".
Regarding carefully the notes I made for this album and the track by track, but not too much that makes me define LP as "comedy rap". It's an hour of quite generic and slow listening, unfortunately. The intro is quite confusing and meaningless and the remaining thirteen tracks + 2 skits are not much better. Starting with "Better Luck Next Time", which lives on a simple, minimal rhythm, with a female sample looped tight in the background and a decent relaxed delivery that doesn't tell me anything. More or less like the other songs — without the female samples — often decent, easygoing, relaxed, all with a decent funky minimal rhythm typical of the period.
Released by JMJ Records, Rush Associated Labels and Columbia Records, distributed by CBS Records in US, Canada, Europe, Spain, UK and Japan (in 1991) without obtaining an adequate and positive response from the public or critics, this brought the end of the group's very short career, even though the boys were about to prepare for the production of a new CD. Needless to waste time, album not essential neither for fans of the genre nor for historians. 4/10.
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