Easily and unfairly in the running for the race of the best MC you've never heard of, this artist has remained unknown to most aesthetes of the genre. Sherry "Shazzy" Marsh delivers a compact effort of almost an hour, eighteen songs, four skits.
The production made by John Gamble, Dante Ross, and Geeby Dajani is simple, minimal, frenetic and decent jazzy, often light to facilitate the slow and velvet delivery of the rapper; the functional hooks lengthen the songs without adding too much to the gaudy and braggadocio / generic lyrics of the MC. The first part of the disc is slightly more cohesive than the second, in particular after the halfway skits, the album drops in tension losing energy and part of the listener's attention, depriving itself of real highlights (note: there's a jazzy midtempo extravagant and lukewarm for "Playhouse").
Her urgent and syncopated delivery on frenetic rhythms is no greater than when she chooses to spit slower bars, when instead she pulls down energetic verses, the best tracks emerge ("The Way It Is", "Do You Remember"). Recommended to anyone who wants to listen to how the minimal jazzy sound sounded early nineties stabbed by a young, fresh and talented MC. Shazzy is Dante Ross' first signing to Elektra Records and she releases her debut with the same label in US, Canada in Europe, without finding a satisfactory response from critics and the public.
Rating: 6/10.
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