Debut album for Cold World Hustlers, San Fran hip-hop duo composed of Big Vic and E-Sic. These guys self-produce their cassette and in 2005 they also manage to release a CD version, always self-produced.
The funky beats are provided by producer TC and partly done by the group themselves, while they perform gangsta lyrics with a simple but smooth rapping style. The first part of the disc features several funky boom bap beats, with tight and light drum machine, simple hooks and a slow and flowing syncopated rapping style, in the second part of the cassette, several excellent 70s samples chosen by TC stand out to support the rhythms: Parliament's "Flash Light" livens up the title track, simple jazzy boom bap, tight drum, great piano sample looped in the background, simple hook, slow syncopated delivery, while "Straight Doin It" has a great jazzy sample, boom bap, fast tight drum and a slow dope syncopated delivery. The album is closed by a seven-minute joint with the only guests on the tape, Maine-O and Taydatay, over a funky beat with pounding drum machine, I don't know how much necessary because it stretches the tape over thirty minutes.
Neglected gangsta album anyway, the beats are pretty good, the lyrics are generic and there is also a sexual choices, but the rapping is quite acceptable. Recommended for fans of the Bay Area scene.
Rating: 7/10.
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