The Geto Boys just rocked the whole Nation when Richard Shaw decides to release his solo album, the last member of the group to do so. Production is provided by J. Prince, Big Ro, John Bido and Crazy C, the lyrics are the exclusive work of Bushwick Bill.
Suffering from dwarfism since birth, on his first studio album, the boy reflects on the problems his condition has caused him and on the revenge he has taken against life: the lyrics are crazy, violent, gangsta and horrorcore, often they simply have a shock value, some are funny, there's some social commentary, and it deviates several times towards more sexual cuts. The funky production is dirty, raw but often light, the boom bap is minimal, simple and calm, funky-jazzy, with a lean and raw syncopated drum machine, the rapper takes the musical license to go and pay a tribute to his origins in "Dollars and Sense" and to close the record with a ballad rhythm.
Technically, it's a simplistic tape, with a banal metric and elementary, crude, raw and very hard bars, but emotionally, it's hard to even try to describe this effort. Most of the tracks are light-hearted, but the MC offers us some of their best tracks ever and specifically goes back to that day in June 1991, when he shot himself in the head and lost an eye, but he shouldn't have overcome the night in the hospital.
The Kingston native rapper doesn't look too strong without the backing of the other Geto Boys artists, he's an honest, but not excellent lyricist, and these lines are delivered with an occasionally sluggish, energyless, slow and syncopated flow. If you pay attention, his lyricism is really poor and scarce, it doesn't fully support him, but if you pay even more attention, you understand that it doesn't need to support him.
The bars are functional to the message that Bushwick Bill brings here: he's a survivor, despite the fact that life has continually given him up and confronted him with thousands of challenges and adversities. It's the revenge of the weak, it's the return of the mad rapper, it's strange that no one talks frequently about this effort and how influential it was for the Houston scene. Very solid, very solid despite the adversity that itself presents, great work of Bill, I personally think it's essential for gangsta rap fans.
Highlights: "Little Big Man", "Stop Lying" (best beat), "Chuckwick", "Ever So Clear" (classic), "Letter From KKK" (classic).
Rating: 7/10.
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