Debut for Eddie "Young Ed" Stevenson, rapper from San Francisco. The album is produced entirely by Chess and Cellski, who also guests on the project alongside Bay Area mainstays Hitman and San Quinn.
The album recalls the typical sounds of Bay Area hip-hop and is deeply relaxed, mobb, close to g-funk, tangent to g-funk, but without really touching the genre. Young Ed's debut is a gangsta album that is very easy to listen to, it flows smoothly even if the initial sections and the central part fail to emerge. In the last tracks, the CD improves incredibly with some slick pieces composed of remarkable melodies accompanied by an effortless performance by the San Francisco emcee: it's a shame that this happens right towards the end of these three quarters of hour, when your ear is getting used to it and you're about to finish listening. Released by Cellski's Inner City Records, the album was released in autumn 1996, obtaining a couple of reissues from the Los Angeles label SIC Records more than twenty years after its release. Unmissable album for fans of the Bay Area and mobb music, 7/10.
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