This album is a waste, because there's a bit of talent in Rahmakhan Todd "King Sun" Turnbow's technique, but it's all wasted in songs that, if all goes well, are simply decent, composed of minimal and simple rhythms, funky, despite some good samples (Rakim, Run-DMC, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye and James Brown) and simple rapping.
Overall, it looks decent up to "Snakes", after which the rapper from Paterson, New Jersey, drops level by lending himself to soft rap with three stupid ballads on dully rhythms, the hooks don't work as in the rest of the album, these choices aren't irritating, but they're extremely lame and never really grip, it seems that nobody is mixing even if five different figures are credited. Among those ballads there's 1987 debut single, "Hey Love", performed with D-Moet who produces it with Cut Master DC for Flame Records, sub-label of Rhythm King.
The duo sign with Zakia Records in the same year and reissue the single with a b-side, two years later King Sun goes soloist and drops this record, mainly produced by Sun Born along with The Hollywood Impact and with beats of The 45 King. Published by Zakia and Profile Records, the disk has an artistic impact even if it doesn't allow King Sun to enter the charts, without being taken into too much consideration by mainstream critics. 5/10.
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