After six years in prison, Jamel Cummings aka Lord Superb releases his first mixtape and a couple of years later he also releases this effort, his second mixtape. Production credits aren't present, on the other hand there are numerous guests to support Perb in these sixteen tracks plus some bonuses, including Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan, Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian and Stack Bundles, which he mentored.
The intro features Stack Bundles, underground rapper also emerged from the streets of Far Rockaway, Queens, like Cummings, and was killed in June 2007. Suga Love produces "Nothing to Lose" and, unfortunately, doesn't do a great job: his choice falls on a cheap rhythm, composed of a terrible drum, a bad hi-hat and a bad sample that doesn't want to be here, Superb's execution doesn't sound good on this beat either. The following choice features a posthumous contribution from Stack Bundles in a commercial rnb cut with another sparse beat and honest rapping. "Last Stop Music" tries to hit the mark with a soulful chipmunk beat, genre finished since five years, placing a cheesy boom bap and a soulful chipmunk sample to support Perb's rapping. June Dune guest on the fifth track, the beat is decent and the rapping is good too.
Choice number six sees Jittabug (already a guest on the previous mixtape) together with the author on a poor and annoying production. The tape returns to the terrain of chipmunk soul in "Feeling Like It's My Time", where the sample is strangled in the middle of a poor beat. Bose and Kasanova the Don are welcomed in the eighth choice, a rnb cut with mediocre rhythm. Superb is delivering with an average style, but it's not helped by these cheap beats. The situation improves when Raekwon steps down from the Wu-Tang Clan to bless this project by appearing on "Young Superb" alongside Jamel: Lord Superb delivers bars with his most inspired style and sharper on a production that is ill in the best possible term, the rhythm is crazy, the drum is weak but it works, the loop doesn't excel, but it's clandestinely effective, Superb flows like margarine on this production.
At any moment you expect Lex Diamond to arrive and take the cut and indeed he arrives, and by arrives I mean that Superb pasted two lines of Raekwon from something like a discarded session made together with him, maybe at the time of the American Cream Team or who knows what track, and no one bothered to fix this copy and paste mix, which is why when the Wu-Tang rapper's short part comes on you can't even hear it, although the sound quality is already low on his behalf. Superb's voice also plays "under" the beat together with that of the Chef, and then rises again when this collage ends. In the end, it all sounds like a short back and forth in which Raekwon exchanges a few bars with the host and despite this, this still sounds like the best track on the tape by any margin both as one of the best in Lord Superb's catalogue, behind the unparalleled "Can't Outrap Me" and the other two strong tracks from his previous mixtape "Superb Clientele", "Meetin' with Death" and "I Feel It Too".
This tape isn't finished yet. Ammo is a guest on the following track, on a discreet, glossy, luxurious rhythm with commercial tones, in which the guys deliver adequately. Ammo is one of the few guests present to have also contributed to other records, including those of Montana Trax and Wu affiliates Da Monstar Mob and Judah Priest, as well as being a guest on Perb's first mixtape. Lord Jamar and Shorty Real contribute pick number eleven, on a decent beat. The next two productions are also ok, Lord Jamar guesting on "I'm a Bad Man". Track fourteen “Real Life” boasts Bash (also guest rapper in the sixth chapter of Buddha Monk's "Zu-Chronicles" series) and Un Pacino, unlucky to end up on one of the worst beats on the tape, a weak production with a bad hi-hat. "Hussler Spirit" boasts a triumphal production and a good rap for Stack Bundles' posthumous appearance, before Stack's outro. The bonus tracks are forgettable, with rhythms one worse than the other and Prezzee guest in the first two.
One cut ("Young Superb") out of nineteen is saved, the rest doesn't work, the guests, which come mostly from Farrock America Records, add little. The tape is released by Farrock America and Chambermusik, it's not essential listening except for Superb fans. 4/10.
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