JJ Fad gets a big hit and then Eazy-E takes the market by storm with Ruthless and the group NWA. Two years after their debut, the group JJ Fad is ready to put a brand new LP on the shelves. Dr. Dre should be behind the keyboards for this new pop rap album, instead he decides to postpone the sessions and the group doesn't wait for him, having with them the other main producer of NWA, DJ Yella, who shares the production duties with Arabian Prince.
Like other artists late in the game, JJ Fad released an album in 1990 focusing on the hip house trend, with almost poor results. The disc is still partially supported by the NWA, there's Arabian Prince in production together with Yella. Maybe not the best of NWA. The hip house rhythms are simple, minimal, boring, sometimes frantic, above which the girls deliver in a poor, slow, easy-going and syncopated style, sometimes ridiculously hardcore with banal and little credible street-rhymes. Overall, it's a pretty bland and weak, irregular LP, continuously broken by unnecessary skits that break the poor fluidity of the record: in retrospect, it's too easy to deny the critics who considered these girls as the future of the genre for the exclusive support of the Compton group, but it's no coincidence that this is their last effort, after which they never showed up again for a few decades.
Three singles were released ("We in the House", "Gold" and "Be Good ta Me"), however neither the songs nor the album managed to break into the charts, giving the lie to the title of this album and sending the group among the most forgotten one-hit wonders of rap with their pearl "Supersonic". Met with mixed but mostly negative reviews, the flop of the project convinced the group to abandon their career in the recording industry (in 1992), while DJ Train became part of the rap group CPO. Not recommended, 4/10.
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