Quite mediocre album from the miami bass scene and from one of its founders, Adrian "MC ADE" Hines: his debut single "Bass Rock Express", released in 1985, is considered to be the start of Miami bass. The rapper publishes more singles ("Bass Mechanic", "Nightmare on A.D.E. St.", "Transformer", "Just Dance (Dover Dan)", "Da' Train") with the label 4 Sight Records, owned by his father Billy Hines, believed to be the first independent hip hop label of the whole South, then releases his first LP.
The opening cut is the definition of annoyance: simple, tight and extremely annoying skinny beat, two lines literally, scratched, mediocre delivery of the performer, who in his defense improves himself in the next track, on a simple rhythm with dark piano looped in the background: here it delivers with the vocoder, it doesn't suck but it's a decent song. Follow typical miami bass songs, pretty mediocre ("Hit Harder" is decent), then we get to "Train", the second electro cut of the disc, delivery with vocoder. Fortunately, the B side of this album is made up of accessible songs, decent hard-n-skinny rhythms, fairly fluid decent deliveries, tracks that flowing fast. "ADE Got It Going On" has an electro bridge, while the other choices don't offer variations to be noted compared to the usual generic miami bass track, they're all more or less mediocre. Closes an electro song with the vocoder, not superior to the previous ones. ADE would continue with this rap thing until the mid-nineties, with poor results.
Rating: 4.5/10.
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