Kid Sensation — The Power of Rhyme

Steven "Kid Sensation" Spence from Tacoma, Washington State, releases his second effort two years after his bad debut rightly ignored by critics and audiences. This record isn't necessarily worse than the first one, but I can't tell you it's better. Like the previous one, it's a mediocre tape, made by an amateur who wants to have fun, I think, copying style and music from the other West Coast artists he usually listens to.

It opens a simple intro, a decent light boom bap with a vicious female sample perhaps, however looped tight in the background and slightly annoying, smooth regular fast delivery and trivial hook. A simple and extravagant boom bap follows, female soul sample looped tightly in the background, simple, flowing, skinny syncopated delivery, dominated by the sample itself, you don't understand what he says until the sample is stopped.

"Who Can Get as Lyrical" has an ultra-fast delivery on frenetic, gaunt beat, boom bap, functional hook. "Comp Stompin'", simple production, skinny boom bap, skinny regular syncopated drum, functional hook, slow syncopated delivery. After "Bass Test", the sixth pick has a simple, minimal rhythm, simplistic boom bap, with a simple chorus and a light-hearted syncopated delivery with a lively skinny drum syncopated tight in one of the rare almost decent cuts on the disc.

Another sort of skit, therefore "The Way I Swing", dark beat, casual delivery, easy-going syncopated, functional hook, skeletal boom bap. "Kid's Groove" has a scratched intro and a lean, minimal boom bap, decent track. The title track isn't even a real cut, basically, it precedes "Rap to You", the first of the few sufficient songs of the tape, a simple decent rhythm, a lo-fi jazzy boom bap, a scratched functional hook and a slow smooth syncopated delivery.

"The Emerald City" is enlivened by the slow syncopated rapping of a guest girl, whom I cannot identify, also because she's not credited, syncopated and slow delivery of Kid, functional hook, beat boom bap skinny decent. Last skit, which precedes four quite forgettable tracks, minimal lo-fi beats, Kid's slow syncopated deliveries, sometimes insipid. Closes a decent instrumental, simple and minimal boom bap production. Swollen, slow, elementary tape, not recommended.

Rating: 3/10.