Interesting compilation that contains some of Compton's unknown artists on raw rhythms with a skeletal and minimal drum machine. Production is quite simple and funky, while rapping is decent in most cases.
There are several accessible cuts: Chuck Small decently drops a few bars over a tight and simplistic beat, minimal with a syncopated and rough drum machine. Sound Control Mobs offer good smooth delivery on a simple funky rhythm with skeletal and syncopated drum machines. In the end, the Compton scene also discovers a female figure in Vanilla C, who has a style and rapping technique comparable with the scene of the time, quite decent above a minimal funky rhythm.
Jolly Joe and Rick Rock find themselves on "Jamaica Funk Groove", a simple funky cut with a skeletal and minimal, easy-going boom bap, on which they deliver in a style halfway between ragga and speech, while "Lyrical Assassin" has a drum hard and dirty machine and syncopated in the background, which forms a dark rhythm for the hardcore delivery of Legion of Boom in a tune that seems to be mixed badly. In the midst of all these tracks, the CMW stand out in "Rhymes Too Funky", easily the best cut: minimal funky rhythm, simple, syncopated, skinny and syncopated drum machine, vibrant, the group delivers smoothly and slowly.
Released by City Fresh Records, sub-label of Kru-Cut, all in all, it's a good comp to discover some unknown artist from the pre-gangsta Compton scene.
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