Esham is ahead of his time and in 1992 thinks of a double album for his sophomore record, until then no one has tried anything like that in hip-hop. Instead of releasing a double album, the Detroit rapper releases two CDs on the same day, dividing the volumes into Day Side and Night Side.
The rapper maintains his usual horrorcore themes, addressing topics such as death, sex, hell, ghetto and drugs, with an ever-dark mood on a hard and dirty lo-fi production, with lots of decent rock and funk samples and a slow, skinny and syncopated drum machine. His ill bars work pretty worthily here and his slow hardcore rapping style is fit with his production, making a raw and tough album, decent horrorcore effort despite a good amount of boring and mediocre songs (including the sexual choices), small spots on this first album which doesn't make it his best work.
Rating: 7/10.
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