AG has basically never stopped since his return to the game in 2006 and in the 2010s he continued to release several records. However, this effort comes eight years after the last solo LP, "Everything's Berri". It might surprise you that it's a fairly solid LP, backed up by really good production.
The set is realized by The Last Genius, Alchemist, Bossmen, Diamond D, Amed Harris, Chuck Platinum, Ray West, Nice Rec, K-Boogie, Khardier Da God and Creestal Fab. The guests are President Ella, Diamond D, Frank Vocals, Draf, Priest da Beast, A Bless, Cassadra the Goddess, Whispers, Bugz, Lil' V and Thirstin Howl III.
It's more surprising that the best part of the album arrives at the beginning and is composed by three AG solo cuts: the French intro opening "Night of Fire", on a wonderful jazzy soulful boom bap that is the first of several lush productions of The Last Genius. The Alchemist realized one of the best rhythms of the record to track number two: wonderful jazzy, bleak, tight, brilliant beat, AG hastens the delivery, but can't go wrong.
"Magical World" by Bossmen closes a tris to remember with a third high level jazzy rhythm, tense, dark, tight, exceptional, seasoned with a soulful background. When the cycle seems to be able to continue given the arrival of Diamond D, the producer DITC partly wrong his [jazzy soulful] production, but the song remains quite accessible. Andre the Giant continues to drop rhymes relaxing on the jazzy beats of "Losing My Mind" and "Fort Apache", an interlude marks the turning point, and the second part of the disc opens with an excellent tense, dark jazzy beat made by Ray West with A Bless and Diamond D as guests.
The flowing delivery and fresh flow of Cassandra The Goddess over a nice rhythmic and dark jazzy beat created by Nice Rec, anticipates the oriental and pounding "Price of Fame", where a weighted and swollen Andre Barnes tries to make people reflect on the murders of Pac & Biggie; follows the political "Dead Presidents", iconic title with a jazzy boom bap well performed by Nice Rec (shame about the too-tight loop that ruins part of the song) for AG's second straight solo, which is a rarity. This album, fresh, solid, extracted from a constant and relaxed AG, is closed by a nice jazzy rhythm with soulful background, marked by the rough, grim, bleak delivery of A Bless.
Released by the Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn independent hip-hop label Slice of Spice Records and by Megatron BRonx, distributed by Fat Beats, the record sees the veteran DITC emcee return to form nearly two decades after his prime moment. Recommended to fans, 6.5/10.
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