DITC — Rare & Unreleased Volume 2

In 2009, DITC Records publishes another compilation signed "DITC", with some solid cuts and some less solid. The tape is intended to be a sequel of "Rare & Unreleased" (2007). Showbiz is the main producer of the comp, along with Lord Finesse and Ahmed. DITC rappers are joined by A Bless, Ghetto Dwellers and Freddy Fox.

"Internationally Known" is definitely a great way to start an album (OC and Big L, with Fat Joe on a Finesse beat), "Put It In Your System" is another good cut up to the previous one, with Finesse also blesses track three, posse between Joe, L Corleone, AG and Finesse himself. Not bad, up to "Let's Get It On": Party Arty and A Bless appear out of nowhere, in a song with AG on essential and simple jazzy rhythm, Party Arty's hunting ground, here more fit than the others two. The Ghetto Dwellas guy remains to drop rhymes also on "Strength" — skeletal and extravagant rhythm, great jazzy bridge on the functional hook, solid delivery of Party Arty, well also OC — and on "Rap Game", where together with him and A Bless, D-Flow on an annoying and cheap rhythm of Ahmed.

Party Arty dominates the album, also presents in "Who's the Dirties" with D-Flow on an essential, simple, skeletal and dark jazzy boom bap of Showbiz, the favorite musical carpet for him (and less for D-Flow), remains attached the mic in "Oops", where he's not inspired by Showbiz's light, simplistic and jazzy beat in a cut with AG and returns as «Ghetto Dwellas» in "Wildfile", indecent from the beginning, simplistic, skeletal and cheap jazzy rhythm, with a functional hook and barely decent delivery.

The duo affiliated to the collective remains for Showbiz & AG's "Themes, Schemes & Dreams", a good dark, essential, skeletal and beautiful jazzy boom bap production, which still favors Party Arty, despite the good delivery of AG and OC. "Flow Never Worry" is good boom bap jazzy simple, essential, with soulful samples looped in the background on the hook, good OC delivery, less good D-Flow, mediocre. The "true" DITC returns after eight (8!) cuts, of course, but who expects it now: the consistency record is gone.

"Hot Spot" is certainly not the best work of Show & AG, a bouncy, simple, essential funky boom bap, they deliver decent on a vicious female hook, they could choose better. OC is just decent in "Mush One", his solo cut where he tries to pull straight for a full song with a functional hook on an essential, skeletal and bouncy jazzy rhythm. Closes, amen, Freddie Foxxx: "Ready for War", is the best point of this "collection of things between DITC affiliates"? Maybe yes, it certainly is if we exclude the first three tracks. Sample by Biggie, good boom bap jazzy light, essential with jazzy bridge taut on the hook, excellent aggressive, convinced, technical, rough, smoothness test by Freddie Foxxx that annihilates the rhythm proposed by Show with a simply embarrassing ease of delivery. Banger.

Rating: 5.5/10.