Black Stone of Mecca in 2024 releases this sequel to the only official album of the duo Prostyle formed by Pro the Leader and Dopestyle. The production is done by Primemusic, Dopestyle and Shaggy Manatee. The guests are Humanbeings, Shaggy Manatee, Rubbabandz, Opio of Souls of Mischief, and Nova-Kane.
The album opens with the title track: boom bap, vibrant and tense piano keys, poor doubled drum, robust bass, irregular delivery of Dopestyle on this musical carpet created by Primemusic, the main producer of the project. The second track is "For My Peeps", Dopestyle gets behind the keyboards and makes a mess here, creating a beat that continues to fart, at the mic him, Pro the Leader and Humanbeings, DJ Lalo at scratching, all wasted because of the rhythm. Shaggy Manatee is the guest and producer of the third choice, where the guy combines strings, an urgent bare drum and other cheap sounds, also placing an urgent hi-hat and raw bass. Rubbabandz of GP Wu is the guest on the next tune, on an oriental beat designed by Dopestyle: dry uptempo drum, raw bass, Pro the Leader spits something before the guest enters, who lets the rhythm breathe and delivers his verse, leaving the song after a short contribution.
The fifth choice is the same as the previous album of the duo Prostyle. Primemusic produces the last four pieces of the project: "Baby Lamb" boasts beautiful and sweet strings that contrast with the harsh midtempo drum, raw bass, regular honest delivery of Dopestyle, his solo. There's a sad piano accompanied by a poor lame drum and a sublime soul vocal sample in "Breakbeat" to support the performance of American Poets 2099. "Push Dirt" presents a slightly subdued rhythm in this solo of Dopestyle that spits with his typical syncopated style. "Don't Decieve Me" could also be the joint for the radio of the duo, robust, powerful, vibrant bass, sweet piano keys, poor midtempo drum, synths that make their way into the beat while Pro the Leader drops his bars, hook rnb by a singer.
Hooks continue to be a weak point of the duo in this project which proves how the Pro the Leader & Dopestyle made a proper selection of tracks in the first volume released ten years earlier, because these sound just like scraps and Shaka Amazulu can't turn them into gold just with the cleanliness of the sound in these 35 minutes. Not recommended.
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