In August 1996, Vyshonn "Silkk" Miller, the younger brother of Master P and C-Murder and the one thought to be the least talented member of TRU, released his debut album. It's produced by Carlos Stephens, Mo B. Dick, KLC, DJ Daryl, Craig B, Ken Franklin and T-Bone. Guests are Master P, credited eight times, C-Murder, Mo B. Dick, Mia X, Pure Passion and Big Ed.
Silkk spits out generic, stereotypical gangsta lyrics with a style that is certainly different from your generic rapper, even if that doesn't automatically mean "good". His rapping is limp, syncopated and cumbersome, much of the time he's mumbling something, long before it became a mainstream trend and a while after someone did the same thing, but unlike him, in a great way (Das EFX, Chip-Fu).
The rhythms are discreet, typical of No Limit, sometimes, almost by chance, there's a good scattered beat, the rest is abundantly boring and cheap, there's nothing to note. The record stumbles here and there and is excessively swollen, maybe this kind of music is something you can hold for twelve minutes or a quarter of an hour, but getting to over 75 minutes is prohibitive: these songs sound like scraps from the "Ice Cream Man" sessions, it's like Master P did about fifty tracks and put the best ones on his album, leaving a botched and not too high quality selection of the rest for his brother's LP, where he's often present in support and the tracks seem to be "borrowed" to Silkk.
The album is released by No Limit and distributed by Priority, garnering a comforting response from the public and establishing itself as his best ever project in the long run, even if it's a CD that gets lost in the hundreds of excellent projects of one of the most overwhelming seasons in hip-hop. 4/10.
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