Kokane's second studio album, three years after his debut under the moniker "Who Am I?". Almost certainly, the guy here's at his best: the record is a great tribute to Digital Underground's p-funk and George Clinton, which you can hear in some of the samples, in the numerous fat bass lines and vocal inflections of Kokane's singing.
Yes, Kokane sings. So much. At least one third of the disc is performed by singing, while the remaining two thirds are split between something like spoken skits and rap. This makes this LP one of the most eclectic, irregular and interesting records of the golden age of g-funk.
To support the artist's performance, there are some guests such as Above the Law, Dirty Red, Black Hole of Watts and Tha Alkaholiks, and the rhythms of Cold 187um: he's still pissed at Dr. Dre over that story of who-invented-what, so in addition to placing tons of squeaky, deep and annoying g-funk synths that for those who don't like synths are like hell, he realizes also some invective directed at the former label partner at Ruthless, including the final track "Don't Bite the Phunk", dissing towards Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tha Dogg Pound and the whole Death Row.
The album is released by Ruthless itself, with Relativity distribution, but soon stops in the charts: unfairly ignored by critics and forgotten by the public, it's a good 70-minute listen for fans of g-funk and of the Digital Underground.
Rating: 7/10.
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