The sophomore of Just-Ice is among the most minimal hip hop albums of the eighties. The rapper arrives with a rough and tough style, but doesn't fully explore the ideas he puts in the field and stumbles into some reggae filler with flexible rhythm. It's a skeletal and bare record, raw, hardcore, purely hardcore, reduced to minimum terms, but in a decade dominated by long stretches by the skinny-n-raw beats, how do you stand out for the minimal rhythm? KRS, producer with a few spots here, provides hard and simple beats sometimes replaced by a thin beatbox that leaves room for the hardcore and skinny delivery of Just-Ice. However, the album in many ways is an unfinished one.
It's necessary pull down a couple of lines about the cover: yes, it's among the worst that an artist has ever published, on that there is no doubt. But it's also quite representative of what you will come across here: crudeness, roughness, flat out. Released by Fresh Records, It's surprising how the public bought it avidly, pushing it into the R&B chart (#14) and also making it one of the best-selling rap efforts of the whole of 1987.
Rating: 6/10.
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