Honestly, I thought it was a mediocre typical sophomore jinx pulled badly by one of the members obscured by the Juice Crew. Instead, "Born to Be Wild" ends up being quite decent, a good effort by Shan who doesn't stray too far from the good debut.
To appreciate for example, the fact that he decides not to perform any hook, leaving the task to the samples chosen by Marley Marl and to the scratches of the producer. Here, the delivery of MC Shan is still fresh and simple, pretty smooth and clean, aided by a good production based on hard beats, with a drum machine that does its job well, often skeletal and simple in background in order to return a funky sound to combine with jazzy elements. The only variation of the disc worthy of note is the ballad "She's Gone", minimal beat with skeletal and simple drum machine in background, delivery sung by Shan with choir sung on the simple hook, it's an exhausting cut.
Among the finest choices, "I Pioneered This" boasts a good skeletal and heavy drum machine, funky rhythm with flashes of jazzy cornet looped in background, good Shan delivery, regular and clean. "Go for Yours" has a good boom bap, tight, jazzy, frantic piano in background, skeletal and minimal drum machine, a bit heavy, and decent rhythm, good fresh delivery by Shan; there's a disturbing bridge on the hook left to a sample. Then the title track presents a decent funky-jazzy boom bap, simple production, frantic and minimal drum machine, good fresh rapping by the emcee.
Published by Cold Chillin' with Warner Bros. distribution, the record shows MC Shan's b-boy persona, has another dissing track to Boogie Down Productions ("Juice Crew Law"), obtaining a discreet response from the critics, peaking top 50 among rnb efforts. 6.7/10.
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