Noyd's most "personal" album, without featuring. Really poor sound quality, as if Noyd had returned to the basements to record these tracks that perhaps come from some cellar. Pure underground, not beyond sufficiency, there's nothing relevant here.
Simple, light, skeletal, tight production, halfway fairly cheap, weak, sometimes rhythmic, soulful ("Make Me", "Up in New York"), hysterical ("Rags to Riches"), frenetic ("Love It or Not"), sad ("Is It Me?") and with funky ("Wassup") deviations, while the last tracks are gloomy and tense. The stylistic deviations of the production of this tape include male soul samples looped tight in the background ("Family", "Hunger Pains"), hysterical guitar licks ("Rags to Riches"), scratches on the hook ("Is It Me?"), homages to "Made You Look" by Nas ("Love It or Not"), very disturbing synths that make the cut unplayable ("Gangsta Niggaz"; the wack synth lines in the background of "Hunger Pains" are light and don't do much damage), sung hooks ("Rags to Riches") and Party Arty-style deliveries ("Love It or Not", "Is It Me?", "Burn It Down"). Noyd often seems subdued, bored, generally uninspired: he delivers decently, rarely determined ("Make Me", "Up in New York"), energetic ("Love It or Not") or regular ("Love It or Not", "Burn It Down"), sometimes weakly ("Friends", "Rags to Riches"), always accompanied by simple, banal hooks.
Notes. "Up in New York", with a tight jazzy rhythm, soulful, light, a functional chorus and a confidence rapping by Big Noyd, it seems like an attempt to New York anthem, while "Know What I'm Sayin'" stands out as the best track on the record: amazing boom bap jazzy light, tight, essential, modern, simple, good delivery by Noyd, nice cut.
Self-published with no promotion, ignored by critics within months of his previous album. 5.5/10.
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