Ten years after releasing a couple of compilations in the first half of the 1980s, the Treacherous Three release their debut studio album. Kool Moe Dee, Special K and LA Sunshine in rapping, behind the keyboards, in addition to the same group, also Joseph Carne, Rahiem, Ced Gee, Jasz, Clark Kent and Ken Fambro, author of the major number of rhythms. Guests are Doug E. Fresh, Big Daddy Kane, Chuck D, Grandmaster Caz, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Heavy D and Tito of The Fearless Four, often uncredited in the "We Wit It" posse.
The producers do a fairly simplistic job of trying to create a soundscape that is as current as possible, making generic East Coast boom bap beats that fall pretty flat, with somehow annoyingly unlivable drums and poor samples: guys easily sound out of their time due to a decade-old and weak rapping style. Published by Wrap and Easylee, the disc consists of 10 tracks and 47 minutes of listening: Kool Moe Dee flows worthily, while "We Wit It" stands out as the best tune of the edition.
Ken Fambro finds the best production of the edition for an old school super-posse: vintage boom bap, with tight hard pounding drum machine and haunting samples of tight looped horn on simple hook. Eight MCs pull down bars with a hardcore, lively, energetic and flowing style, we're not given the correct order of performers, but, if I'm not mistaken, it should be: Grandmaster Caz, Big Daddy Kane, Heavy D, Tito of Fearless Four, LA Sunshine, Melle Mel, Chuck D and finally Kool Moe Dee. Good track in any case, which however doesn't save the album, 5/10.
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