Sophomore for House of Pain, a trio consisting of Everlast and Danny Boy at rap and DJ Lethal behind the keyboards, helped in the construction of the rhythms and in the mixing by DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill.
Baka Boyz and Diamond D provide a beat each and are the only guests on the record. It's hard to say if it's their best record or not, because there's a clear step forward in their music, thanks to DJ Muggs, and a clear step back in their lyrics, a demerit of Everlast. The album takes on the contours of hardcore rap from its earliest moments with a tough and robust East Coast influenced production, full of impenetrable, rough and raw drums, that beat continuously in the middle of samples where Muggs and Lethal have fun mixing bass, horns, strings and sometimes guitar licks.
Everlast provides hardcore rap with a raw, bad voice, hard to hear, which only gets better with the arrival of singles ("On Point", "Who's the Man"), when the rapper decides to calm his flow, which becomes more easily flowing and accessible. He fails to construct any important moments in these fifty minutes, even due to weak generic bars, and says practically nothing all the time, along with Danny Boy Distributed by Tommy Boy / Warner Bros., the disc achieves good commercial success, improving its debut in the charts, but not in final sales, in any case reaching gold certification in three months and being warmly hailed by critics.
Rating: 6/10.
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