Anthony "Rappin' 4-Tay" Forté, from San Francisco, Bay Area, at around 23 years old arrives at the debut album in the rap game and claims to be back. In 1991, would he return from where? From prison, he came out after ten months.
Three years earlier, he had been launched from the column of the Bay Area Too $hort, with an appearance in his critical success "Life Is... Too Short" and bringing him into the Dangerous Crew, a collective that had several prominent rappers among its interpreters, including Ant Banks, MC Pooh and Spice 1.
Forté's debut, aka Rappin' 4-Tay, isn't memorable: his West Coast rhythms are simplistic, skinny, composed of a lean and minimal drum machine, trivial hooks and a syncopated spoken delivery that doesn't fit completely to the chosen production. The album tends to go towards commercial rap with a hip house sound that keeps coming back while listening ("No Stoppin'", "The Frisco Game", "The Tom & Jerry Show"), alternating with a couple of ballads lame ("Luv is True", "The Streets of San Francisco").
Released by In-A-Minute Records and Rag Top Records, is a curious and extravagant debut, at the end of the day it's a quite weak album, not recommended. 4/10.
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