Ray West and AG meet again in 2020, five years after "The Nickel EP". AG tries to release a Griselda record: twenty minutes length, jazzy midtempo rhythms and slow delivery. The tape features The Ghetto Dwellas rappers and Lord Tariq, and is released under Red Apples 45.
Opens a skit, then light midtempo jazzy rhythm, slow and boring calm delivery, functional hook for the first track of the tape, "They Call Me AG". A splendid light jazzy beat follows, instrumental cut with crippled drum machine and sample of sax looped tight in the background. It's one of the two best cuts of the project. "Neva Enough" returns to cross the weak points of the album, the rapping of AG: it's a pity, because it ruins the album, and it's also a problem, because it's an album of AG.
Simple production, minimal, tight jazzy with flute samples looped in the background, D-Flow delivers better than the home rapper, despite a functional chorus sung (badly) by Ghetto Dwellas rapper. AG doesn't miss the other member of the duo, who arrives in the next track: on a simple and decent beat, tight jazzy, Party Arty opens the track with its rough and gritty flow, clashes with the rhythm in a clear way; functional hook, then Lord Tariq again directs the cut on the right path with a slow, syncopated, appropriate delivery.
"143rd Interlude" is an instrumental interlude that's automatically the best tune in the whole project: splendid light jazzy rhythm, with ethereal female sample looped in the background, heavenly choice. Luckily, it's not ruined by the tight and senseless delivery of AG or Ghetto Dwellas. "Tell Ya What I Think" has a good jazzy downtempo rhythm, light, soulful sample looped distant in the background, slow delivery without effort of Andre the Giant. The next song is an interlude composed of alternating percussion lens, decent choice. "Im Ready" is the tune that annoys me most in this effort: Ray West's fantastic jazzy rhythm, any rapper would have pulls out an immediate banger / classic, but here there's Andre Barnes.
Technically, on this musical background you can't go wrong and I don't want to say that the DITC rapper misses something in the delivery, but he certainly doesn't make the most of a rhythm that can easily be killed nor on the contrary uses the current to bring out a calm, relaxed and flowing delivery; no, he spits down some syncopated random lines and wastes the potential of this Ray West ethereal-like beat and he sounds particularly boring, annoying if you think about what (not) happened in this cut. At least Party Arty tries to give you some energetic vibes in the last one, with a raw, aggressive and flowing delivery over a jazzy rhythm stolen from a classic.
Highlights: "Red Key Reprise", "143rd Interlude".
Rating: 5/10.
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