Normally, an instrumental scraps album would be safely avoidable. But here we are talking about Pete Rock, for a while, a long time, the best hip-hop producer. Fifteen instrumental songs discarded by the sessions of "Soul Survivor II", which already of it, did not boast one of the most memorable materials made by the revered New York-native beatmaker.
In total, you are in front of 76 minutes of music. It's too much. Yes, even for 2005. And it's not good music. There's nothing remotely near a good rhythm for the Pete Rock standards, some are pleasant, but they could also not impressive after the second or third time. This is perhaps the point. There's something very synthetic and very unnatural in this set of rhythms, the samples are present and are good, nevertheless, they all feel subordinates in some way to the drum machine proposed by the author.
It's not the usual hard and right drum of Pete Rock, it's not heavy and honest, it sounds like it left from North Carolina, it sounds similar to that of 9th Wonder, for some reason. It's too harsh, anti-melodic, uncontrolled, neurotic, I don't like it. The loops, last too long: the shortest track stops after four and a half minutes, it doesn't make much sense. I would like to save the cover, but something I think to be my conscience, tells me "don't save the cover; look better": in fact, looking better, it seems to be a cross between the hairdressing salon where the FBI has just broken because that was a cover job to market methamphetamines in the neighborhood and a setting of a Thai porn movie shot in an abandoned metro station in Brooklyn. Lighting is that. 6/10.
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