First album by Dino "Volume 10" Hawkins, LA rapper tied with the Freestyle Fellowship, who made his debut on their LP the year before. Fat Jack achieves half the rhythms, while the rest of the production is provided by Moe Doe, Bosco Kante, Baka Boyz, Theodore Stanley, Cut Chemist, DJ homicide, Massive, Soup, Coze, and Stone tha Lunatic. Due to continually cheap choices, the production sounds very bad, while Volume 10 brings out abstract bars with a dynamic and whimsical delivery style: the end result is similar to Freestyle Fellowship records, but with worse music and much less memorable rap. Fat Jack guesses a couple of boom bap rhythms ("A Real Freestyle", "Home Alone"), while the other guys behind the keyboards disappoint: for over an hour, a poor drum crosses mediocre samples. It's released by the local label Immortal and by RCA, with a BMG distribution that doesn't save the album from being a commercial flop (#66 among rap records), as opposed to the good reception of the critics. 4/10.
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