Sophomore for Dush Tray after his debut two years earlier. The album is produced by Mr. Laid, Reg and T.C. The guests are Young Teak, Nomad, Scoop, Cloud Nine, Taydatay, Baby Menace, L-Man, Big Vic, Diamond D (Dymon D), 11/5, Big Luck, Killa, Ricky, Sunny and Cig.
The mobb production chosen by the guys behind the keyboards is solid enough to provide the performers with an enjoyable musical landscape in these fifty minutes, in which the best moments emerge when the synth lines soften, giving local emcees more space to shine and this happens in coincidence with the appearances on the mic of Baby Menace and L-Man ("No Matter What It Takes", title track), where the velvety flows of the boys run pleasantly smoothly on a silky production by Reg first and then by Mr. Laid, where the drum is left to give a slight sonic contrast. The crackling final posse "Everyday Life" also deserves a mention, where the author gathers a few friends to deliver bars on a beat from the album's other main beatmaker, T.C. The San Francisco rapper builds a gangsta album that fails to stand out from the others, although the crime rap subgenre scene had eased by 1997 and is rapidly starting to lose its prominence, in any case the project remains exquisite, well kept, and personally one of the best efforts to come out of the Bay in the period in this sub-genre. 7/10.
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