Debut album by George "King George" Butler, rapper from Richmond, California. King George is one of the original members of the New Orleans group TRU (later shortened to Master P, C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker), from 1989 to 1995.
After being left out of the group, the rapper tries to regain the fortune of that crew through several projects published in the second half of the nineties, both solo ("Tru Player", 1997; "No Limit", 1999) and collaborative, attempting to create a duo together with Cali G, who also left Tru. The two attempt first as TV ("Tru Vision", 1997) then as The Soldiers ("War Casualties", 1999), however, the albums do not get a good response from the public and are ignored by the critics of the time.
Before these four albums, in the wake of his exit from Tru, King George releases his debut solo album as an independent on his own label. The production is entrusted entirely to Anthony "AK" Walker, the guests are Gangsta Poet, Thicker Than Water, Grip, Gaston, Larry D, Sassy V, Mr. Sandman, Black Gold, Ki-Ki and Cali G. For 70 minutes, King George spits gangsta bars over minimal, shoddy production, sometimes the bass is good enough to carry the entire track including the emcee flow, other times the music relies on a series of dreary synthesizers that sound worse than each other and are all annoying, preventing the tracks from moving forward smoothly and sinking them.
The first part of the album goes away quite calmly, in the central section the effort gets bogged down in a series of poor choices, and then getting back on track with the brilliant "Eye 4 an Eye", one of the best tracks together with "Street Sense". It's a shame that the tape is forgotten and ignored, there are some interesting excerpts for fans of the first No Limit records.
Rating: 6/10.
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