Convicts — Convicts

Michael "Big Mike" Barnett (Geto Boys from 1992 to 1995) and Christopher "Mr. 3-2" Barriere form the Houston duo named Convicts.

The production made by Doug "D" King, John "J" Bido, Simon Collins, James "J. Prince" Smith and Johnny "C" is simplistic, composed mainly of skinny beats, a syncopated drum machine and some causal samples, while the delivery of the duo is decent, urgent on the frenetic rhythms, never impresses.

The disc turns completely around the main theme of the prison, touching on other ignorant gangsta topics with some spray of socio-conscious that sounds random. The mixture of conscious and ignorance is strange here, especially because the duo proves highly misogynist resulting in pornocore, but also in tracks such as the last one, "Illegal Aliens", where the duo exceeds in senseless racist epithets: this effort it's often hailed as one of the best LPs in the ignorant field of rap game, but I have not understood what his precise merits are.

There's nothing innovative here — maybe giving instructions on how to be a criminal in "1-900-Dial-A-Crook", but apparently the credit would go partially to the Geto Boys — it's just hard and raw rap with mediocre hardcore rhymes and is aggressively ignorant, the rhythms dance between the tasteless and the boring, there are no bangers or classics and several songs are exhausting, of course, it has its moments (whatever it means), but the lyrics are generic gangsta, I mean, anyone could have written them and the difference wouldn't have been noticed.

Rating: 6/10.