Glenn Bolton (Stetsasonic) made his solo debut with a studio album under the name Daddy-O, in '93. Unlike almost ten years ago, there are now a lot of people trying to make hip-hop records so if you suck, you risk being invisible.
Technically, this guy hasn't evolved from his group albums, while sonically, the record is flat. The production is entrusted to Edman, The Inner Sanctum, Fran Lover, Bobby Simmons, The Unknown Ruffnex and Daddy-O himself. It's not a very different product from Just-Ice's many efforts in the early nineties, they both don't know exactly what to do, where to do it, when and why. Here's «how» to really be a problem: Daddy-O's rapping is elementary, and the execution of his generic lyrics is bland and colorless, all of these songs go basically unnoticed.
The beats are accessible albeit always cheap and mediocre: the record starts badly, with a simplistic and annoying rhythm, tight syncopated drum machine, spoken delivery, but this music is really annoying, luckily it ends; female soulful sample and, at times, the annoying rhythm returns as before. The musicality of this record improves in some tracks: three quarters of an hour, four skits and a single guest that is really worth mentioning, it's YZ in the title track, beat with g-funk vibes, female soulful samples and delivery of YZ easily better than that of the former Stetsasonic. Overall, the album is disappointing, Island Records / Polygram had a lot of courage to release it, but it was rightfully ignored by audiences and critics alike and is just as rightly forgotten today, 4/10.
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