Skit with shooting, then immediately hip house rhythm: welcome in another episode of "MC Hammer Meets Eazy-E", gentlemen.
This is a hip-hop duo from San Francisco, California, formed by rapper Jonathan "Sway" Calloway and DJ Rod "King Tech" Sepand. Also known as Sway & Tech or Flynamic Force, they are hosts of The Wake Up Show that launched many rap careers. After publishing the EP "Flynamic Force" (1988) and the single "Follow 4 Now / Time 4 Peace" (1990) with All City Records — according to DJ King Tech the single releases 100,000 physical copies between vinyl (40,000), cassettes (40,000) and CDs (20,000) —, the duo deals with Giant Records and realizes a LP distributed by the major Warner Bros. Records.
It's difficult not to laugh at these seventy minutes of listening. It's equally difficult not to cry, because it's seventy minutes of listening. And this duo doesn't do many things to make them pass faster. MC Sway's lyrics range from "very uninteresting" to "bad", spending a lot of time in a gray shadow between these two parameters, delivering with a listless syncopated rapping style and never managing to entertain the listener worthily.
The production of King Tech instead, is focused on hip house, drawing soft, skinny, light and lazy rhythms: the first three rhythms are hip house, then there's a change of music and King Tech, that is one of the least accurate monikers of the hip hop history; he brings out a skeletal beat, bare and simplistic, with syncopated, vibrant and skinny drum machine, and female sample looped tight in the background.
MC Sway lets the beat breathe and then attacks it with a syncopated delivery that leaves a lot to be desired. The following tune is perhaps the best of the whole project and is a really bad song: hip house production, tight, simple, skinny and syncopated drum machine in the background, with a tight looped female sample in the background; this joint seems to have been made by an EDM group, is clearly intended for the club.
If you pass "New Dimension", going to close the album becomes a titanic feat not to laugh: anyone who has decided to insert the sound of the seagull and loop it tightly in the background should be interned in asylum forever. Damn, it's an annoyingly meaningless sound, why, why put it on an album that should be hip hop? Why put it on a hip house album? These things don't make sense, but in fact, very little on this record makes sense. Having neither lyrics nor decent music, everything stands around a cold and skinny drum machine: everything that comes from here on, I've marked it as hip house, this duo also allow themselves to place an EDM dance bridge ("Time 4 Peace"), crazy.
Highly not recommended, to be avoided. 2/10.
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