After the debut album released in 1990 by the Poison Clan, a duo composed of rappers Jeffrey "JT Money" Thomkins and Patrick "Debonaire" Watler, the latter decides to leave the group in 1991 and form his own group.
In the Poison Clan, he's replaced by Madball and Uzi, who along with JT Money will release three more albums over the next four years. Alone, Debonaire can't find another rapper who can support him and turns to his younger brother Van Watler: Home Team are born, the duo stays in Miami, but mentally it's somewhere else. There's still Campbell behind the distribution of this product through his Luke Records, while lyrics and production are made by Debonaire: his sound distances itself from Miami and approaches the East Coast, with simple rhythms and boom bap, familiar samples and a light-hearted slow delivery effortlessly syncopated.
Deboinare and Drugz, this is the original name chosen by his brother, don't guessed a single hook in the whole album and the drum machine is sometimes too pounding to be livable: however the album isn't a complete failure, lyrically they still come close to New York imitating energy-less style and scant lyrics from the Empire State's alternative and hippie scene, you can encounter fresh scratches and it's not too far from De La Soul's weakest album, but things like dual use of the ESG's "UFO" sample shows very little imagination by the Watler brothers.
Rating: 6/10.
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