Supported by an amazing production, Tuff Crew's third effort is their best album and one of the best of 1989, by right. The Philadelphia scene holds a solid, coherent and honest album for fifteen tracks. Tuff Crew released two pretty good albums in previous years, but here they come back stronger than ever and surprise the scene with a gem album. The rapping is solid, but the group says nothing new from the point of view of the lyrics or the technique; instead, the music is superior to most of the hip hop records dropped in that period. Tuff Crew samples from Isaac Hayes, Bob James, Otis Redding, Kool & the Gang, Prince, JBs, Bill Conti, without neglecting James Brown and adapts the samples to the funky rhythms that return a fresh and crisp, clean, funky/jazzy sound. On this production, realized by themselves with LA Kidd, the group chooses a relaxing velvet delivery and at that point you can still stop paying attention to the lyrics and enjoy the relaxing vibes that this entire smooth fifty-minute project offers you. 8/10.
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