Tweedy Bird Loc is one of the fittest guys in the early nineties on the West Coast, and in 1994 he released his second and final solo studio album. Production is provided by Big Wy, D-Fingaz, East Side Tag Team, Leroy Dukes, Lil Stretch, Ronnie Phillips and Tweedy Bird Loc himself.
More than a solo record, it's a group album with Tweedy as the main rapper, similar to an illegitimate sequel to Bloods & Crips' "Bangin on Wax", because about twenty different performers participate in the album: Fo Clips, Big Stretch, Big Wy, Keystone, Lil Leak, Lil Stretch, Pops, Red Rum, Silkski, Big Bun, Dog, "Skit", Tammi Holt, KeyLow G, Baby Bird, Burnout, Da Marvin, Troll and D-Fingaz.
The first cut features a simple rhythm, with slow pounding drum and decent sample, Tweedy hardcore delivery backed by uncredited 4-Clips. Skit, then "Dub Sack": deep economic g-funk synth, slow pounding drum machine, Tweedy's regular slow hardcore delivery in one of the few solo tunes of the edition. "I'm Calling You a Bitch" has a boom bap with cheap, slow and piercing lean drum, the MC spits bars with a slow and hardcore style in a dissing against some of the girls in the rap game, especially Queen Latifah. The cut is musically less good than it should be. Track number five is an eight-minute posse featuring Big Stretch, Big Wy, 4-Clips, Keystone, Lil Leak, Lil Stretch and Pops: decent boom bap, with slow syncopated drum pounding, decent delivery of the guys, none particularly stand out here.
"Outta Here" is one of the many dissing that Tweedy threw against his rivals on this record: on a cheap drum, the cut is opened by Lil Leak with a regular style, followed by a hook of Fo Clips, then OYG Red Rum 781 and Silkski also spit their own bars. Silkski is a Brooklyn Zu Fam rapper affiliated with Ol' Dirty Bastard. Tweedy Bird Loc closes in a slow and smooth hardcore way, in a piece that's aimed to virtually the entire East Coast, NY, KRS-One, Fat Joe, 3rd Bass, Fresh Prince, Vanilla Ice, Everlast, Poison Clan, Tim Dog, Ultramagnetic MCs, Luke Campbell, and Queen Latifah. Yes, yes. It should be a classic, it's evident, however, the music doesn't reward these Tweedy dissing. Pick number seven is another kind of dissing to rnb, posse track with Big Bun, Dog, 4-Clips, Lil Leak and a dude named Skit: these guys have fun spitting bars on a simplistic and cheap boom bap. Big Wy and 4-Clips continue to have fun in "Keep on Walkin", over a discreet funky beat with pounding and lacerating drum machine.
"My Dicc is Still Prejudiced" is Tweedy's second and final solo track on a pounding rhythm, performing with a regular style. "Gangsta Tweed" has a good rhythm with slow and heavy drum, the hardcore delivery rapper supported in the background by 4-Clips and Tammi Holt. "I Got My Strap" boasts a close over a ballad rhythm with accessible downtempo drum, decent samples, and slow delivery of Tweedy, along with 4-Clips and Key-Low G. "Fucc Miami" is a posse track with 4-Clips, Keystone and Lil Leak: light funky boom bap, glossy sample, hard slow pounding drum, let-to-breathe rhythm, then the guys attack with a smoothness hardcore style, spitting bars headed towards Miami and Luke Campbell. Another dissing follows: funky rhythm composed of pounding and slow drum combined with g-funk synths, this time Tweedy Bird Loc turns to MC Ren delivering bars in back n forth along with female rapper Baby Bird.
Skit anti-Ruthless Records, then comes what should be the peak of this CD, "Y'all Can't Fucc with Us": boom bap funky, synths g-funk, drum pounding, slow syncopated delivery of Big Bun, 4 Clips, Red Rum and Tweedy Bird Loc in a dissing aimed at Eazy-E and Ruthless. Music doesn't support well the energy of the performers. "Street Jokes" is so much fun that it's considered one of the easy highlights of the LP: Big Bun, Burnout, Da Marvin, 4-Clips, Lil Stretch, Troll, and Tweedy have fun swapping jokes for five minutes overbeat. "Dangerous is the Shit" is one of their most successful songs, thanks to an accessible production, fresh funky boom bap, slow lacerating drum, cheerful and festive samples: good smooth and confident delivery of performers, in a concluding posse-track featuring Big Stretch, Big Wy, 4-Clips, Keystone, Lil Leak, Lil Stretch, Pops and Red Rum, plus lead rapper. Closes an outro with Big Bun, D-Fingaz, 4-Clips and KeyLow G.
Distributed by Dangerous Records, Pump Records and Warlock Records, the disc doesn't get much attention from audiences and critics, ending Tweedy Bird Loc's mainstream career. Consisting of 18 cuts, for a total of 69 minutes of listening, it's mainly produced by Ronnie Phillips, with 15 rhythms, however, there are always about three producers on each track: the rhythms are cheap, scarce, nobody is truly memorable, while in rapping different interpreters are present. Among the major guests of the edition, 4-Clips stand out with 11 appearances, followed by Lil Leak (5), Big Wy (4), Lil Stretch (4), Big Bun (4), KeyLow G (3), Keystone (3), and Red Rum (3). The MCs are having fun and most of the listening is composed of invectives and dissing against Tweedy's many rivals: overall, it's a very long record, but with some funny moments that deserve to be revisited.
Rating: 6/10.
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