Blaq Poet — Simon Phoenix

Blaq Poet in his second effort in 2020. This seems destined to remain ignored by the public and critics, not without too many reasons: weak hardcore bars on simplistic and hardcore rhythms self-produced by Blaq Poet himself. The six skits reduce this LP to ten meager, simple tracks. The hooks have always been the rapper's weak point, so it's not surprising that here they're pretty banal, the production is between the mediocre and the just decent, but also when the rhythm seems to want to help the MC ("Animal"), other commercial errors invariably come to condemn the individual cuts, in this a sample looped in an annoying way that ruins a dark jazzy beat. 4.5/10.