Collaborative album between Benny the Butcher & 38 Spesh. The duo have already collaborated profitably nine years earlier, in the tape "Cocaine Cowboys", despite the critics ignored it due to the really high number of tapes released in the year 2009.
Opens an intro produced by Lil Eto: skit on piano keys, then simple jazzy minimal rhythm, simple boom bap, bare sweet female sample from Dune's "The Power of Love" looped in background, good delivery of the duo in this introductory cut. "Driver Seat" follows: Benny & 38 Spesh deliver going back and forth in a LOX-style, then LOX themselves arrive to close the second verse, on a jazzy and simple rhythm of Chub, vibrant and a little dark with a sample from "Karussell" by Jaak Joala and Radar. However, the cut isn't the classic you can expect from the four talented rappers.
Trypps Beatz provides the rhythms for the following two tracks producing a simple, vibrant jazzy rhythm in "Thruway Music" with a sample from The Brothers of Soul's "Try It Babe", on which the duo drop hardcore on trap vibes, and realizing a tight beat in the fourth song, in which a soulful sample looped distant in background acts as musical carpet to supporting the dirty and rough delivery of Benny & 38 Spesh. Beautiful sample from Willie Hutch's "A Love That's Worth Having", pleasant hi-hats, downtempo skeletal drum.
There's a Daringer's flash in the middle of the album, to give a Griselda [tone] to the collaboration: good boom bap jazzy rhythmic, tight and essential, lethal delivery of the duo on a faster and more frenetic production than usual for the producer, with a magnificent sample from "Mint a Filmeken" by Katona Klári, "Dirty Dancing" vibes. "Paper Trail" is a cut produced by 38 Spesh himself, which provides an excellent light and essential jazzy rhythm, sample from Tessie Hill's "Do What He Wants", with Benny continuing to build solid tracks.
The seventh song is "So Strategic": Trypps Beatz returns to production, simple and essential dark jazzy boom bap, looped sample of a little girl crying in background from Major Harris' "I Got Over Love", good smoothness delivery of the duo. Solo of 38 Spesh in "My River": short piece which is a very strong one; jazzy dope rhythm, uptempo, excellently provided by Rain, with a soulful female sample very deep looped tight in background and made distant for the smooth, energetic delivery of 38 Spesh. Benny's solo is also a fairly short song, the Buffalo rapper delivers slow, smooth, and on a good dusty jazzy rhythm of Chup with piano keys in background. The tape is closed by "Game Away", excellent simple, tight and syncopated jazzy rhythm provided by Black Metaphor, excellent back and forth delivery of the duo with Emanny on the soul chorus.
Dirty and rough album: it's full of truly quotable lines, too many to put all of them, and good verses more or less all solid, don't sleep on this, 38 Spesh gave us two of the best album-collaboration of 2018, one is here.
Highlights: "Driver Seat", "Gun or Knife", "Paper Trail", "So Strategic", "My River", "Man of the Kitchen".
Rating: 7/10.
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