Kenneth Green already debuted five years ago, in 1990, under the moniker Laquan, how bad did it go? I just know that, when I put together the rap albums for the 90's list, I didn't even find that record, just plain. Meanwhile, Green changed moniker to Poppa LQ, he's your generic nine-five gangster rapper from L.A., California, West Coast. There's nothing wrong with that so far. Guests are AMG, Mad CJ Mac and Menace Clan. The music is mainly entrusted to Tony Dennis, Jason Lewis and Joseph Johnson, Clement Burnette, Bosco Kante, DJ Battlecat, Poppa LQ and Mike Dean also participate in the construction of the rhythms.
Production is a problem here: it's too far behind the average for the season, and 1995 itself is too far ahead of the average of the previous (and subsequent) years. The beat chosen for "Housen the Scene", for which Poppa LQ, Mike Dean and Tony Dennis are credited, somehow works: the drum is poor midtempo, there are decent random samples, the rhythm staggers and jumps and somehow it goes on, it's mesmerizing, it's almost a good rhythm for the disco / club. Everything else is bad, musically: completely random, whiny and cheap pseudo-g-funk synths, scarce drums, poor and shoddy drums, mediocre samples that fail to lift the beats. Rap is okay, it's your solo heated gangsta / thug soup, holds on for half an hour, then production crashes it into the second half, with some bad choices, seedy sounds and lackluster, harsh drums.
Not recommended: there's a palpable, vivid and annoying abuse of synths. Poppa LQ is the only artist to come out on Rap-A-Lot Records West, being distributed by Noo Trybe. Later, he'll be one of the members of the original formation of the Regime group, founded by Yukmouth.
Rating: 4/10.
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