Sophomore slightly subdued by Kid n Play, here less energetic than usual and a little more serious. The skeletal and hard beats dominating the production realized by Hurby Luv Bug and the Invincibles with instrumentals played by Glenn Gibson (guitar) and Stanley Brown (keyboards), remain simple and minimal, rarely frenetic, hard, light, or lively and fresh on which the duo spits simple braggadocio lyrics. The disk is co-produced by Quicksilver, The Grand Composer Dre, The Wizard M.E., Stanley Brown, Dana Mozie, and Stevie "The Boy Wonder".
Personally, it's a bit off album, I feel that there's no energy that I should find in a Kid 'n Play album. The rapping is decent, sometimes faster than usual, but often simply discreet, functional to the rhythms, pretty insipid pop rap. You'd expect that the tune with the Salt-n-Pepa is the strongest of the record, instead it's a spoken track that kills your enthusiasm.
"Strokin'" is one of the most representative tracks of the project, involuntarily: fresh, lively, decent beat, it looks like a good track, then comes a tightly looped female shout on the hook that makes it annoying, I didn't understand why they made this choice; but, while the duo delivers, there's another male shout looped tight as the other one, these sounds continues to annoy ruining the song.
Promoted by the singles "Back to Basics" (#1 in the rap chart) and the title track, released by Select Records, the album met with mixed reviews from music critics, but received a better response from the public, who brought the product close to the top ten among rap releases and to the RIAA gold certification for half a million physical copies sold in three months.
Rating: 5/10.
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